Size Matters

[4est_4est_Gump]

A friend of mine has really big feet, I cannot remember how big but HUGE. What I had not considered before was his choice of cars is limited.

I have to fold myself in half and contort to get into my wife and daughter's cars...


That's why I drive a big-ass F150 4X4.

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[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I never thought about it that way, and my last truck was a small S10 with a clutch...

 

[BotanyBoy]

I'm pretty tall at 6'4", size 13's, extra wide......been racing Honda hatches for years.

It's always the roadsters that are too small, Miatas, S2000's, Z3's....all for tiny people.

Kinda like F-16's....

 

[oggbashan]

G'day, Ogg!

When I read your first post, I thanked my HP that I wasn't so endowed. I have a Nephew with (Canada/USA) size 15's , and he has a HELLUVA time getting fitted.

My two nephews are much taller than I am. My feet are disproportionate to my height. They are both six feet eight and wear UK size 16 shoes.

They can get their shoes from specialist outlets - at a price.

Their sisters? They constantly complain that they can't get fashionable shoes in their foot size - both UK 10.5. They can get heels and wear them because their husbands are six feet five and six feet seven tall to my nieces' six feet and six feet one.

Until recently if any of the family visited the village where my nephews and nieces used to live with their parents we were instantly recognised as relations. The average height of the villagers was five feet six (men) and five feet two (women). The tallest non-family person was a man of five feet nine.

But a woman moved into the village two years ago. She is five feet ten in her bare feet. At first she had to keep saying that she wasn't a relation.

However recent family research has shown that she shares a three-times great grandmother with my brother and I - so she IS a relation.

 

[ishtat]

My only and eldest son has five younger sisters, all aged between 21 and 27, one daughter is 182cm the rest are 184 192 and the twins at 188.(5'11" to 6'3") Their mother is similarly proportioned. Shoe sizes are never discussed within my hearing, but long and narrow comes into it.

A year or so ago I bought them all some handmade Italian Boots/Shoes for which I still get occasional credit. Son and I can buy off the shelf and have learned not to brag.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When we arrived in Beijing, the first thing that happened was the theft of our luggage.


The wife was in for a shock when she tried some shoe shopping in Hong Kong.


She had to buy men's sneakers...

 

[RobDownSouth]

When we arrived in Beijing, the first thing that happened was the theft of our luggage.

They saw you two rubes coming.

 

[warbass]

I can relate to the big feet problem I wear size 17 double sided and I sometimes stall my car because my foot gets stuck trying to clutch

 

[oggbashan]

I can relate to the big feet problem I wear size 17 double sided and I sometimes stall my car because my foot gets stuck trying to clutch

I haven't had that problem since I changed to an automatic. I have room for my feet even when I borrow my wife's smaller European car.

I'd like to have a classic British car from the 1930s but there are very few that my feet fit into. I drove one at a show last year and had to twist my feet sideways. That was feasible for a couple of hundred yards across an event field but would have been dangerous on a road.

 

[warbass]

I can believe that I has a Ford fiesta I drive for work and it's like a bear on a unicycle trying to drive it

 

[RobDownSouth]

Lots of Bigfoot sightings in this thread!

I'm taller than 99% of all Litsters and my shoe size is a svelte 11.5

 

[warbass]

Lol I'm 6'5 with my giant size 17 shoe i do live close to west Virginia so I could be bigfoot

 

[Greypowerful]

I haven't had that problem since I changed to an automatic. I have room for my feet even when I borrow my wife's smaller European car.

I'd like to have a classic British car from the 1930s but there are very few that my feet fit into. I drove one at a show last year and had to twist my feet sideways. That was feasible for a couple of hundred yards across an event field but would have been dangerous on a road.

I could see you in a "Blower" Bemtley, Ogg.

Maybe a Railton... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1937_Railton_Claremont_Drophead_Coupe.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

I could see you in a "Blower" Bemtley, Ogg.

Maybe a Railton... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1937_Railton_Claremont_Drophead_Coupe.jpg

My cousin had a Lagonda M45 Rapide. I enjoyed driving that.

http://vintageman.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p622681760-3.jpg

 

[warbass]

Now that is a classic car

 

[Greypowerful]

My cousin had a Lagonda M45 Rapide. I enjoyed driving that.

http://vintageman.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p622681760-3.jpg

Exquisite! (V-12, correct?)

 

[Saint Peter]

http://wheresronald.com/uploads/2/7/1/9/2719961/6093083.jpg?372x229

 

[oggbashan]

Exquisite! (V-12, correct?)

No. Straight six 4.5 litres (277 cubic inches).

 

[warbass]

http://wheresronald.com/uploads/2/7/1/9/2719961/6093083.jpg?372x229

I see you found my casual shoes

 

[Greypowerful]

No. Straight six 4.5 litres (277 cubic inches).

Litres will do. Canada has been mostly metric since 1977.


Yanks are about the last holdouts, methinks...

 

[Adre]

Litres will do. Canada has been mostly metric since 1977.


Yanks are about the last holdouts, methinks...

We don't need no steenking metrics.

 

[Greypowerful]

Your military does. Been that way for decades.

 

[sharingfantasies]

When we arrived in Beijing, the first thing that happened was the theft of our luggage.


The wife was in for a shock when she tried some shoe shopping in Hong Kong.


She had to buy men's sneakers...

I like men's sneakers better. They are wider, have better arch support and last longer. I wear black sneakers. The white ones make my feet look even huger than they are.