Ok Wayne, you now officially suck - the 962 was awesome but did not bring you to that level of envy for me yet - but now you did it - LOL ;-) Congrats on buying my dream car !
Over the last 15y I never could make myself sell my early 911 to trade for the French plastic fantastic, always seemed overpriced to me and more recently I struggled with the CA smog rules too as the car was never imported here and that made importing a post 1966 car hard, there are ways but none fun... I'd be interested to know how you plan on dealing with that (Montana?).
A good friend got one a few years ago in FL (no problem there - no fun roads to use it on though). It was a dinalpin from Mexico and he took a chance and won (only difference is slightly lower value but not much, and slightly thicker fiberglass - a good thing).
I finally got to try it extensively.. Well, at a hair under 6ft, that was a challenge. The car reaches my hip level when standing next to it. Here's my son next to it- he was 8 or 9 at the time, gives you an idea !
Inside, my eyes were between the upper windshield seal and the tinted stripe on the glass you can see above. I had to drive it in SOCKS. The foot well is so small and spacing of the pedals so tight any shoes meant grabbing 2 pedals. Racing boots may work.
The shifting was a bit of a challenge (vague) but could have been that car.. I drew a crowd, even in Clearwater, of course a french dude caught up with me at a light and was beside himself seeing a (din)alpine in FL ! It flew with even a small 1600cc engine and 2 fat bastards in it elbowing one another...
Dream car, but overall for that $, and my size, not for me sadly - I wish you well in that respect. I now dream of the modern one - read a lot on it and also the David Twohig book on its conception and now I want it even more for all the efforts they made passing it thru Carlos Ghosn and going to the lotus lightness ethos. I hope to relocate to France part time in the next 5y and I think it may well happen.
I wish you luck with it, my friend told me the best source for parts was....Home depot ;-)
PS: if you troll French Ebay, they sell a 1/8 model of it (metal) that is fantastic - it was one of those weekly magazines that sell you a part at a time for a year. I bought one and that is as close as I'll get but it's a great model ! might wanna add that to your collection too !