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

[Larry C. Leung]

Okay, somewhat more serious. Ewww! BTW, who turns the screw?

LL - NY


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:11:43 -0400 "Bruce Mendel" <Brucem105 at comcast.net>
writes:
> sign me up!
> ----- 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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