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Right-hand-drive popular again?

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Basil, Take a passenger, Navigational Aid, with you the first few times out the daimlers and right hand drive are a bit of a handful.---Keoke /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
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Jeff, Never speak without first hand experience, particularly when you do it every day.-Cheers---Keoke
 
My RHD's in North Carolina bring me a lot of attention and I stay a bit on the confused side myself. The Roadster is RHD with the gear shift on the column on the right, the 37 MG is RHD shifting with the left hand on the floor, the TR6 LHD shifting with the right hand. Thank God for the automatic Ford truck where thinking is an option, but I still go for the floor shift in it, the wifes Jeep is on the floor, Help me!! Wayne
 
When we bought Hiram the taxi, RHD, we tended to drive with us in the same spot in the road. That is the left side of the car was in the oncoming lane! Not Good. Then to compensate we started to hug the far right side of the lane. Safer but still not good. After a few miles we started to get a feel for where the car was in relation to the lane. Fortunately, we live on less traveled road. It took a little time each time behind the wheel to remember to get in the lane appropriately. The part about passing on two lanes doesn't matter to us, with thirty-five horse power we don't have to worry about passing anything. T.T.
 
And then of course you have to learn to drive through the McDonalds drive-thru backwards /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Basil
 
We drove our RHD Ginetta all summer with no problem, it's much easier with a passenger though, to have a quick look before pulling out to overtake. We consider ourselves "driver and navigator!" Where I do get confused sometimes is going from my RHD Ginetta to my LHD Escort (stick) to the automatic minivan. The best though is landing in the UK after a no-sleep redeye flight and picking up a RHD hire car and driving on the LHS of the road again! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

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And you can talk to the driver of the car on your right, face to face. Makes passing the Grey Poupon very easy. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Just before purchasing my RHD Marcos, I called a friend with one and asked how hard it was to learn driving on the right-hand side. His comment: "After you make your first mistake, it's easy". He was right! Mine also has the light switch on the left side of the column and the turn signals on the right side. Try that some time...........
 
Now wait a minute!! I've been driving a RHD Jaguar 420 as a daily driver in the Piedmont of North Carolina for 2 years now. There are at least a dozen other RHD cars I know of including 2 Rolls Royces and an original Mini. Add to that all of the mail vehicles that are privately owned that are RHD Subarus and Jeeps.
My daughter learned how to drive BOTH a RHD and a LHD Jaguar. She prefers the RHD to this day because she finds it easier to follow the side of the road than then figure out where exactly the middle of the road is on a country lane.

It is sometimes difficult to turn left if there is traffic facing you trying to turn to their left (your right). You learn quickly how to develop patience and careful defensive driving skills all over again -- perhaps something everyone needs to re-learn!!!

Webserve
 
how long have you been back home in canada?havent you heard?havent you newspaper delivery? no radio? no t.v.?its the new law,everyone must change over to r/h driving by jan 2005!!!!!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
It gets interesting when we dwellers in Great Britain take the ferry to the Continent to cavort amongst the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and dope-smokin' dutchies.

Drive on the ferry on the left- couple hours later, and its off then, on the right.

After a week or two, you finally get to the point where you kind of get it right without constantly thinking about it (and without the wife/co-pilot nervously watching everything done, or not done....)

And then its back on the ferry on the right side, and a couple of hours later off again, but this time on the left....

and the whole process is repeated for the next week or so until you're sure you're home, driving where you're supposed to....
 
We used to get exactly the same as James, but mirror-image! We lived in France for several years and going back to UK to visit friends and family with a LHD car, even though brought up and learned to drive in UK, was a real PITA!
Around Houston, though, I don't think driving RHD would distinguish you from the crowd. No-one looks when changing lanes anyway!
 
I've collected everything I need to convert my '63 MGB to right hand drive except the accelerator pedal & the turn signal switch & steering column cowl
 
Steering column cowl is available at Moss UK. I had Moss Goleta special order me one a while back. I have a NOS MK I RHD cowl in the box in my garage but I'm afraid to use it!
 
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