Comments on: Perfect Winter Tinker Car–MG Midget? http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/classiccars/2007/10/14/perfect-winter-tinker-car-mg-midget/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:36:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Kris Palmer http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/classiccars/2007/10/14/perfect-winter-tinker-car-mg-midget/#comment-257 Kris Palmer Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:04:14 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/classiccars/2007/10/14/perfect-winter-tinker-car-mg-midget/#comment-257 OK, Guess. Obviously you're doing time so your opinion may be discounted. (Kidding--this writer worked at the prison I happen to know.) They do have a lot of leg room, though the shoulders-touching-in-the-middle effect is not one many drivers would be comfortable with. Best way for anyone considering any car to approach the room and comfort question is to find a few examples and sit in them. I interviewed Goldberg for my book Dream Garages and there's a picture on his wall of him in one of his favorite cars--his Cobra roadster. He looks over the windshield not through it. He also said he liked the tight fit of the McLaren F1--keeps him in place under cornering forces. OK, Guess. Obviously you’re doing time so your opinion may be discounted. (Kidding–this writer worked at the prison I happen to know.)

They do have a lot of leg room, though the shoulders-touching-in-the-middle effect is not one many drivers would be comfortable with.

Best way for anyone considering any car to approach the room and comfort question is to find a few examples and sit in them. I interviewed Goldberg for my book Dream Garages and there’s a picture on his wall of him in one of his favorite cars–his Cobra roadster. He looks over the windshield not through it. He also said he liked the tight fit of the McLaren F1–keeps him in place under cornering forces.

]]> By: Guess Who, Minneapolis http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/classiccars/2007/10/14/perfect-winter-tinker-car-mg-midget/#comment-258 Guess Who, Minneapolis Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:28:29 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/classiccars/2007/10/14/perfect-winter-tinker-car-mg-midget/#comment-258 I beg to differ about whether a Midget can accomodate linebackers. You just need to be sure to get a convertible! Some of my correctional officer buddies out at Stillwater Prison used to tell a story about how two of the biggest guards sat in a Midget together. Each of them had to be over 6'5" tall and at least three bills. The top had to be down, their shoulders touched in the middle, and their outside arms hand to hang out over the doors, but they "fit." So there you go. I beg to differ about whether a Midget can accomodate linebackers. You just need to be sure to get a convertible! Some of my correctional officer buddies out at Stillwater Prison used to tell a story about how two of the biggest guards sat in a Midget together. Each of them had to be over 6′5″ tall and at least three bills. The top had to be down, their shoulders touched in the middle, and their outside arms hand to hang out over the doors, but they “fit.” So there you go.

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