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This would be tricky, and wouldn't really solve the problem...it might take a custom or heavily modified frame, and I don't know who would fabricate it and declare it "safe". I feel for you, you really love the 107 as I do but you are just awfully tall. I have a friend that I took for a ride in my 560SL, who at least is 6' 5" and ~300 pounds...he was actually looking OVER the top of the cowl. It looked like we were driving in a clown car...
My guess is, people really were smaller 35 years ago (when the car was designed) and Germans were probably smaller than Americans. The ergonomics worked well for the average person, 35 years ago, in Germany.
In a similar vein, when I was in high school, I worked after school in a factory/warehouse as a shipping clerk. A welder there was at least 6' 5" and 300+ pounds. He wore size 16 shoes; I remember this because his safety shoes came in a special box, and everyone thought that was funny.
his summer "baby" that he lusted for even when he was a kid was a perfect, pre-ugly bumper MGB in British racing green, with wire wheels. It actually DID look like a clown car when he was driving it. Worse, he was telling us about the big-time problems he was having keeping the genuine wire wheels in balance...no one offered an opinion as to why he was having this problem!
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