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Hats In The Car/A Newbie Question

Carlisle Blues

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jamespowers said:
Not yet anyway. :eek: :eek: :p :p :p lol

nah had it checked by Goober...it's ok

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Tango Yankee

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jamespowers said:
Ok, choose between Just Plain Old and Atavist then. ;) :p lol lol


Note I said reruns! lol These days I'm just trying not to be the guy who is always saying "When I was your age..." :p And I think I'm just going to go back to being "old fashioned." It was so much less complicated...

Cheers,
Tom
 

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Carlisle Blues said:
That actually happened to me once with my Chevy Nova, my favorite car. I was on the Belt Parkway in NY going to pull a midnight shift. Thankfully the roads were pretty clear..:eek: :eek:


The belt parkway in Brooklyn..good times, not such great smells though... I haven't driven on that in about ten years, but there used to be a real bad odor as you passed Starrett city
 

Carlisle Blues

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Cufflinks said:
The belt parkway in Brooklyn..good times, not such great smells though... I haven't driven on that in about ten years, but there used to be a real bad odor as you passed Starrett city



My eyes are tearing just thinking about it.....lol lol lol

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chum

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My biggest problem with fedora style hats and cars is forgetting which car I am getting in and out of! I drive a Ford Transit Connect for work and the head room is perfect. I get into my personal 2003 Concorde and I almost knock off my hat every time, and I am only 5'6"!
When you Loungers talk about the head restraint problem, I do not understand the issue, as even when not wearing a hat, I never rest my head on it. If, in an accident, the head restraint saves my life but messes up my hat...who cares!
 

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Michaelshane said:
This is Bently.....No problem here.:)
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Off topic, but I've been looking all over for a shoulder bag like the one in your Jeep photo. Who makes it, where'd you get it, and how much did you pay?
 

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NukeMeSlowly said:
Sorry if I missed this but can't you lower the headrest a bit so it meets the back of your head BELOW the rear brim of your hats? This is what I do in my Toyota Coralla.

I've had only five cars with headrests--'70 Buick Wildcat, '89 Dinan BMW 535, '96 Nissan Maxima, '00 Nissan Maxima, and '02 Honda Accord--and even though I'm 6'2", no amount of adjustment down (or up, for that matter) to the headrests would get them out of the way of my hat brims.

However, until recently with my Akubra Lawson, no hat has really been a big problem since they all have an upturned rear brim that mostly curls up more when it hits the headrest. The Akubra Sydney/Fedora is so soft that it's the best driver of all. My new Lawson has a wider brim, 3 inches, and the rear of the brim angles slightly down. It's the one hat that I must remove in order to drive.

By the way, if your Corolla headrest is so low that it's below the level of the rear brim, then it's too low to do any safety good.
 

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Back in the mid-'70s a friend of mine commented that he never wore a hat (well, baseball cap, actually) while driving. This was due to an article he'd read that cited statistics that put the percentage of drivers who were wearing hats when they had an accident at some high percentage--in the 80s or 90s as I recall. It struck me as odd at the time as we were growing up in southern California and I had a hard time thinking of anyone who wore a hat.

Now that I have a bit more life experience I realize that the statistic was likely from a survey or study that had been done years before, possibly even a decade or more. Even now we get articles that reference studies done many years previously as those are the latest ones available.

I drive a PT Cruiser and rarely have a problem with my hat hitting the headrest. That's probably due to my having short legs, which means I have to have the seat a bit forward, and a long torso and regular arms, which means I have to tilt the seat back in order to be comfortable. The higher roof line helps as well.

Cheers,
Tom
 

WideBrimm

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chum said:
My biggest problem with fedora style hats and cars is forgetting which car I am getting in and out of! I drive a Ford Transit Connect for work and the head room is perfect. I get into my personal 2003 Concorde and I almost knock off my hat every time, and I am only 5'6"!
When you Loungers talk about the head restraint problem, I do not understand the issue, as even when not wearing a hat, I never rest my head on it. If, in an accident, the head restraint saves my life but messes up my hat...who cares!


Better to knock off the Hat rather than the Head, I always say! Ouch!!:eek: :eusa_doh:
 

Wolfwood

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I'm over 6'2" and I can fit in most cars wearing my Fed IV Deluxe without too many problems. All you need to do is sink the driver's seat as low as it will go (ok, many older cars don't have that function) and tilt the seat back enough so that I have more room for my head and my hat.

I know my head is not as close to the headrest as it perhaps should (darn, I research traffic safety issues), but I cannot bring myself to remove my hat...
 

Dave E

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Interesting, this isn't something that had occured to me as a problem! I think it's a combination of my driving position and the fact that I'm a distinctly average 5'9" tall. I do usually remove my hat when driving, but for no desperately good reason!
 

anon`

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kabuto said:
I wear one of these for extra safety when I drive:

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I'm having trouble creasing it. Steam isn't working.
Might I suggest a hammer?

Or you might look up a fellow that goes by the trade name of Þhorkell, I believe, that makes fabulous lids, similar to that but in the Vendel/Valsgärde style. They have what you might call a creased appearance, albeit center and inverted.

Best of all, they lack the kettle's giant and rather inflexible brim, so that your headrest doesn't keep knocking it off your head!

;)
 

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