” but I loved my cramped 1972 Opel GT too.”
I was just to tall and long-legged for the GT. I did get a Manta in’74, and I loved it! Out-handled all the other cars in it’s class. But I started souping it up right after I bought it. There was a place called Mantapart down around Kenosha that had everything, and I bought most everything except fairings, spoilers, etc.. Car was a BMW killer!
I’m 6’1” and wanted a Fiat x-19 but I was about 8” too tall for that. I fit perfectly in the GT, but I owned it a long time before I ever sat in the passenger side and found out the hump was NOT in the middle of the car, if you get my drift. :-)
BTW, my wife has a phrase about cars and men: “The bigger the car, the smaller the p***s. And vice versa.”