Miata Mailing List: February 1995, Message #18
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   From: dinsmoor%cfa4.DECNET@cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: RE:  Tall Miatateers
   Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:15:48 -0500

Jack:
Did you actually drive the car?  I'm 6'2", and I thought I could
never own a Miata with the hardtop - when I sat in one on the 
dealer's lot, I "tested" the headroom, and my head rubbed far too
much.  I figured I'd have brain damage from the first pothole I'd hit.

Same experience when I whent to check out the car I now own.  When
I sat in it, it was tight on the ol' noggin.  When I took it for a
drive, however, I settled into the seat and had plenty (well, enought)
headroom.

Every now and then I bump my head, but it's not bad.  Like most tall
people, I'm taller in the morning, so I watch it on the way to work.

I have more problems with vision - the windshield header is just a
tad over eye level.  Tough when you're the first in line at a 
traffic light.  I've learned to compensate, tho.

Douglas Dinsmoor
Red '90 Pkg. A

PS - I find there's more headroom with the soft top than the hard.