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B210sleeper wrote:
i'd go insane trying to shift with my left hand.
Millions of people all over the world master it without difficulty every year, so I'm sure that you would too.
After all, your forefathers drove all their horse drawn vehicles, including stage coaches from the right, check out any quality wild west movie.
While you're at it, see if you can get a look at the Tony Curtis movie, 'The Great Race.'
Set in 1910, this movie correctly depicts all of the domestic US made cars in RHD, & as late as 1922 you could still buy a new, American made, Stutz car for domestic US use in right drive.
Oh yeah, the actual race [yes it really happened] was won by a 1909 Thomas Flyer, which was restored by casino owner Bill Harrah in Reno in the '70's & it went into his museum. It too was right drive.
The standardisation of the throttle pedal on the right didn't occur untill 1929 in the US [many had it in the middle] & the US finally adopted red as the standard colour for stop & tail lights at about the same time.
Many cars used blue for the stop light with amber for tail lights before about 1930. [I still have some blue lenses for US cars.]
Your switch to left drive was [historicly] a relatively recent event, & lord only knows why, as there is no practical reason for it, & no advantage to it.
For those wishing to a quality conversion to right drive, have a good look at the firewall where the steering column passes through. I suspect that this does not have the correct pressed-out holes for a steering column, so the whole firewall may need to be swapped for a real deal conversion.