[s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List digest, Vol 1 #1880 - Leg Length (was Lotus Elise at St ealership)

Bruce Mendel Brucem105 at comcast.net
Tue Oct 7 19:11:43 EDT 2003


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Theodore Chen" <tedebearp at yahoo.com>
To: <l.leung at juno.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Cc: <Keith.Maddock at TRW.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List digest, Vol 1 #1880 - Leg Length (was
Lotus Elise at St ealership)


>
> --- l.leung at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > If only someone would come up with a diet to shorted your legs, I'd be a
ve=
> > ry happy man.
> ...
> >
> > As for the shortened leg diet, I don't have that problem. In fact, in
> > my type 44, I have the seat ALL the way up. AND, when I looked at a 1.7
liter
> > Lotus Europa, WAY back, I wanted the leg extension diet, I couldn't
operate
> > the pedals at all. It figured, when Colin Chapman (as I recall, he was
over 6
> > ft) was alive, all the cars fit him. Now that he's gone, we have Elises
meant
> > for people of my stature (US 5ft 5 in, 167 cm for the world majority).
Yeah
> > me (yeah, right, like I can afford one!).
>
> you're in luck.  you can have your legs lengthened.  i imagine you can
> have them shortened as well, though i suspect that's not going to be as
> popular.  some orthopedic surgeons are certified to do the leg-lengthening
> procedure.  my brother's talking about getting the certification.  it
> essentially involves creating a break in the femur and/or tibia, and
> supporting the separated pieces with screw-adjustable braces.  an
> interesting characteristic of bone is that if the broken edges are
> close to each other, they'll grow toward each other and heal the break.
> too far apart, and they won't.  so the bone is in effect broken and
> re-set a few millimeters apart.  every day, as the edges grow toward
> each other, you adjust the braces to space the edges apart again.
> as i recall, you can get an extra 3-6 inches of height this way.
>
> -teddy
>
>
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