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Stan · 01-02-2005, 08:00 PM

>>>Maybe I am confused but was the car you were referring to getting in and out from in your original reply a Gullwing? I am not sure I understand how with the Gullwing up there is less room to get in and out of the car. Are you saying that with the Gullwing you lose two or three inches from the lip of the Gullwing by the windshield? Was the t-bar more that say 5 inches in width? Ugh....I really wish there were more detailed pictures around!<<<

Yes it was a gullwing car. The distance from the windshield header to the roll bar area, the open space, was less than stock. I noticed this after I bumped my head pretty hard on the frame. With about 8000 miles of Elise experience, all I did was get out of the car the way I get out of my own. So at least for me the extra vertical headroom was offset by the loss of horizontal headroom. PICs would help!

01-02-2005, 08:00 PM	#10 (permalink)
Stan - Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 6,927	>>>Maybe I am confused but was the car you were referring to getting in and out from in your original reply a Gullwing? I am not sure I understand how with the Gullwing up there is less room to get in and out of the car. Are you saying that with the Gullwing you lose two or three inches from the lip of the Gullwing by the windshield? Was the t-bar more that say 5 inches in width? Ugh....I really wish there were more detailed pictures around!<<< Yes it was a gullwing car. The distance from the windshield header to the roll bar area, the open space, was less than stock. I noticed this after I bumped my head pretty hard on the frame. With about 8000 miles of Elise experience, all I did was get out of the car the way I get out of my own. So at least for me the extra vertical headroom was offset by the loss of horizontal headroom. PICs would help!