Ok, so first off, I’m not your average sized guy. I’m taller than most at 6’ 5” and 225 pounds. But if I were an average sized guy, I’d build a regular sized Miura. The real question is if a regular sized Miura will be comfortable for me (at taller than average) to drive.
The most obvious way to answer this question is to find a Miura and take a seat. In reality, this is much easier said than done when you’re talking about a car whose value is around 2 million dollars. Well after working hard at this for a few months, I finally this week was able to track down a Miura and check out the fit.
Before answering the fit question, I’ve got to say that the Miura is even more beautiful in real life than in pictures. The car I found just happened to be a finely restored Miura being prepped for show at Pebble Beach Concorso Italiano this year, but still what a beautiful car. It even further strengthened my resolve for this project. I’d like to pass along my gratitude here to Geoff Provo of GP Enterprises (
www.gpenterprises99.com) for getting me access to this Miura. He’s a real nice guy and quite knowledgeable about Italian sports cars.
Well the answer to the fit question is that I fit well enough that I could drive it but not well enough to safely drive it or call it a comfortable fit. The input from those in the know is that a 5’ 8” person fits a Miura very comfortably and people up to 6’ fit alright. Above 6’ and the angles in your ankles and knees becomes too great to be long trip comfortable.
So it’s a plus sized Miura for me. Now the question becomes 103%, 104% or 105%? Since the answer to this question is inter-related with the other top level questions, those questions need to be moved along in order to completely answer this question.