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Given his last name is “Torch in sky,” I can’t fault you for assuming he’d be the same height as Lady Liberty.
MICKEY: So Tammy, finally, today’s our big lunch.
TAMMY: I don’t think so.
MICKEY: Why not? What the hell are you talking about?
TAMMY: Look Mickey, everybody knows that you’re heightening. It’s all over the set.
MICKEY: Wait, wait (goes to grab her arm)
TAMMY: (recoils) Don’t touch me. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. All the progress we made over the years and you go and blow it by pulling a stupid stunt like this.
At 185cm I definitely think I’m around the upper limit to comfortably drive a lot of cars, having seen mates who are an inch or so taller be unable to do so.
I can drive Bek’s Mighty Boy easily, just need to not wear work boots to be able to not hit brake and accelerator at the same time. The Honda S660 we drove in Japan was easy to get in and out of as well.
Only time I’ve found a car that doesn’t work for shorter people was when my Charger still had non-retracting front seatbelts. A friend who is an appreciable bit shorter than Danny Devito couldn’t operate the pedals and also have the seatbelt clicked in, and they weren’t chubby at all at the time either.
I’m 6’2″ (and shrinking). My son’s mother is 5’9″ and as he was growing up, we constantly told him he was going to be 6’4″ or taller. He’s 5’11” and was almost depressed that he “didn’t make it” to 6′.
I consoled him with things like he’s going to be more comfortable on airline flights or in a Mazda Miata or whatever than I’ve been. I think he’s gotten over it.
Growing up in Minnesota, I always felt like I was on the shorter side of average at almost 5’ 11”. As I moved around the country I realized I’m actually almost tall, because in areas outside the “tall” areas of the country the average is even lower than 5’ 9”.
Torch’s middle name is Dana?
That’s as good a middle name for a gearhead as Axel or Otto.
I get why David likes him so much.
As long as it’s not Dana35 and he has to run around with a log strapped to his leg.
Hmm. I went on a ride and drive with Torch at Nissan 360 in a kei car about 10 years ago. I’m 5′ 8-9 and he was a bit shorter than me. I’m going with 5’4″. BTW hilarious guy and very nice in person. I’ve been following him ever since (I mean his writing, not physically following him, that would be very weird… and illegal).
I hope there’s some event where I will get a chance to meet him, enjoy his wit and thank him for the amount of joy and hilarity his writing has brought to me. If it never happens, I hope he sees this comment and know that it is heartfelt.
Reading the comments it occurred to me since us 5:6 and around that can fit in most cars, and the 6 foot and above can’t fit in the best cars, who is normal and who isn’t?
Well, since the average height of men is 5’ 9” and the average height of women is 5’ 4.5” the vast majority of people in America are below 5’ 9”. Add to that the fact that several car brands originate in Japan and Korea which have significantly lower average heights, and the fact that average heights in the US and Europe used to be much lower in the past, if your sample of cars that are cool include international and older cars, they are gonna skew towards a much shorter standard height for driveability.
I’m about the same normal height as DT and JT I wish the DMV would accept metric measurement for height
Being a US-raised mid-level car geek and then bouncing up and down between the US and Canada (and LATAM once in a while) for work, I got pretty good at doing weight and displacement conversions in my head on the fly. And degrees C > F as well.
So, I’m 188 Centimeters tall and while I thought it would be cool to be two full meters tall, I realized that would probably be horrible in real life.
Unfortunately, I also weigh 100 kilograms now. Up from 82 kg, 40 years ago.
I remember the metric system being taught to us in 7th grade and then Nixon shut that down.
The metric system is such an elegant system of measurements. Across weight, distance and volume. Oh and probably extending into so many other things, force, torque, wind velocities per second, that I never dealt with. It’s so perfect it almost makes me cry.
And then it does make me cry a little that we, as a country, never embraced it and got there.
Imagine if the 10 mm bolt/nut was the universal fastener around the world, except when you needed something stronger. Or maybe not that big.
And what we have now in the States is a mish-mash of stuff that doesn’t really align. And then there’s Imperial gallons. My head is almost ready to explode.