A GF's dad was restoring an Austin Martin and INSISTED I drive it one rainy night. So I folded myself up into the thing, barely, head hitting leaky roof, which was leaking badly, and drove it off, around a corner or two, carefully, and parked on the side of the road for some obligatory period, and drove it back.
I can see it would be a neat car were I 5'8" and on a sunny day, not very fast, but fun to drive, but I'm not and it wasn't. I like the MX5 concept, would own one if I could fit in it.