The Cobra Cub bucket seats are perfectly sized and exactly what i was after!
As you could see above, they give me a lovely driving position and i do feel much lower down than in the Sammio and the view over the bonnet is much more impressive that little bit lower!
And the initial body on-off-on-off--repeat... jiggling to sort out the steering wheel and pedal position really paid off!
It's like it was tailored just for me. Oh.. it was
Finally i was never really sure about cutting and extending the gear lever, so after getting an idea from one of the old-timers when i went to the Mark Moor International vehicle festival, i talked to the very nice chap at Spitfire Graveyard (
http://spitfiregraveyard.com/ I can't recommend them highly enough!! ) and told him what i was upto. We figured out that one of the Spitfire gear levers was cantered over considerably more than the Herald/Vitesse one and should give me the reach and clearance i was after. About an extra 2 / 2.5 inches, or so.
As you can see two pics above, it seems to have worked a treat!
Here's it is in Neutral
and in 1st / Reverse / 3rd i still have a few cm's to the dashboard!
Yes... you need long arms to use it. But did i mention i'm 6'2"?
All in all a very, very productive weekend and now i have to spend some time with the family before they forget what i look like