the "smaller person" and 90's

If a 5.7 litre V8 putting out 355kW is like an Evo then I suppose so, although there's a damn sight more room in a Holden (and the 4WD models have enough ground clearance to be quite good fun).

ever known, coupled to 0-60

All grunt, no finesse IMO. They look nice though, and Holden have just given us a big pile of cash for some stuff, so I'm not going to be too nasty about them.

Lots of go for the money though in Oz at least. ISTR they are about £50K in the UK, which puts them against the M3, M5 and the XJR. That's about double the price of a UK Impreza...

in article ch2tl2$ilm$ snipped-for-privacy@sparta.btinternet.com, Steve at snipped-for-privacy@deletemefirst.zord.co.uk wrote on 31/8/04 11:21 pm:

I'm 5ft 2 and 8 stone and we have seats from a rover in our Series 3. ould swap them for something a little less high up. Could do with some side steps to assist in getting in and out as I don't think my knees will take much more.

I had Range Rover seats in my 88" S-III diesel (currently undergoing refurb). They were welded to the old seat box mounts, didn't adjust, stank 'orrible (yes, you could smell them even over the wafts of diesel, engine oil and leaked/flung 20/50 and EP90) and were way too high and forward. The steering wheel had to be held like I was trying to read a tabloid newspaper on a crowded train and the bottom of the wheel was almost brushing my thighs. Rats had chewed through one of the seat belts and also the tank filler tube behind the drivers seat (which I disovered when I tried to fill up with diesel - doh!) and the first time I switched on the lights there was a sudden bright orange glow with fizzing and popping noises from behind the instruments - and no lights. People always say that you should look at a vehicle in the daylight before you purchase, which is very true, but I wish I'd gone back and had a look in the dark too so that I'd have thought to try turning on the lights! What attracted me to it? "£100 and it's yours mate" ..... and it might come in handy for spares thought I, like you do.

After realising that "sold as seen - cash only please" means "hahahahaHAHAHAhahaha" and feeling the need for my hands to be busy I decided to pull the old boy apart and give him a new lease of life. Eight months on, a full chassis rebuild (yes, it had horrors that I'd missed or was afraid to poke too hard because I was being watched), overhauled axles (things leaked, bearings made noises and other stuff wobbled), new brake shoes, cylinders, pipes and hoses ("the brakes are a bit soft mate"), new springs (always ask yourself why the vehicle is parked sideways on an incline), engine rebuild (that "smokes a little on startup" gag), gearbox o/haul ("occasionally jumps out of second when going downhill" .....and first and third - all the time!!), rebuilt bulkhead ("footwells could do with tidying and there's a little bit of surface rust") etc etc etc and now I'm just about to fit some spanking new deluxe seats to match the ones in my other V8 S-III . Oh the joys......!

Steve