Date:         Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:37:45 -0500
Reply-To:     "John P. Flaherty" <jflahert@MAINE.RR.COM>
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From:         "John P. Flaherty" <jflahert@MAINE.RR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Big John Flaherty Re: EuroVans have more passenger room
Comments: To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
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6'10", and about 315 lbs. That's my other complaint with cars; too narrow.
My right shoulder is almost in the passenger's space in most of them. I
don't like having so little room between seats that both front passengers
can't use the seat belt latches simultaneously. Again not an issue with the
vanagon. Not sure about the Eurovan. I haven't checked out the new beetle.
Might be worth a try. I fit in the old beetles. Also fit OK in Yugos as
strange as that sounds. Front seat would go back until it hit the back seat.
Both beetles and Yugos had that narrowness problem though.

John Flaherty
Portland, Maine
'84 GL


----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Big John Flaherty Re: EuroVans have more passenger room


> how tall are you????
>
> chris
> In a message dated 3/8/02 10:57:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> jflahert@MAINE.RR.COM writes:
>
>
> > . My head was crushed up
> > againt the roof, to the point I couldn't hold it up straight. My legs
were
> > forced off to the side at such an angle that it would be impossible for
me
> > to operate the pedals. In short, there is no way that I could operate
this
> > vehicle.
> >
> > My loafs I drove without modification. My vanagon I could drive
unmodified,
> > but not comfortably. I bent the stops out of the way on the driver's
seat so
> > it goes back further, and relocated the door grab handle to a position
> > immediately below the window. These mods make my vanagon the most
> > comfortable vehicle I've ever driven. Because of the lack of headroom, I
> > don't think I could modify a Eurovan to be comfortable.
> >
> > For what its worth, I don't fit well in most SUVs either. Big on the
> > outside, poor use of space on the inside. In fact, to my knowlege, there
is
> > no car being made today that I fit in comfortably. They all seem to be
> > getting smaller. I fit much better in my son's 86 Jetta than in my
buddy's
> > 2000. Not sure about modern minivans or pickups.
> >
> > Oh well, guess I just have to keep that vanagon alive.
> >
> > John Flaherty
> > Portland, Maine
> > '84 GL
> >
> >
> >
>