<VV> Length of LM Corvairs

[Kenneth E Pepke]

Hey Alan ... The inches instead of feet is a pay back for 
having to figure out a persons weight in stones instead
of pounds :-)
Cheers
Ken P

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:47:05 -0000 "Alan and Clare Wesson"
<alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk> writes:
> > The overall length is the same (shop manuals).
> 
> Talking of lengths, I have always wondered why American car lengths 
> are 
> always given in inches, rather than feet and inches, in the shop 
> manuals 
> (Vairs included), and also in books like the Standard Catalog of 
> American 
> Cars.
> 
> What happened to feet? Y'all still use those, doncha? Ever since I 
> have 
> owned American cars I have got used to having to do feet and inches 
> conversions in my head if I want to know how long my cars really 
> are. And 
> the only one I can ever do off the top of my head is 180 ins, which 
> is 15 
> feet (120 + 60, of course).
> 
> But a lot of the full-size 50s cars I used to own were a few inches 
> either 
> side of 200 inches, and that always used to take me ages to work out 
> in 
> feet. Finally I got used to the fact that 192 ins is 16 feet, and so 
> 16 feet 
> 6 ins (a relatively popular length) is 198 ins, or 200 ins near as 
> dammit.
> 
> But why not just tell us in feet to begin with? Vair content is that 
> I am 
> pretty sure without checking exactly that Vairs were nice easy 
> 15-footers, 
> or 180 ins (or thereabouts). Haven't checked for about 10 years 
> though - am 
> I right?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan 

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