The only reason why I stopped thinking you brits do things the wrong way around 
is because I realized you always have your right hand on the
steering wheel. I thought that's really good and still think the same now that I have my right hand drive Locost. But not only I realize that
rallie racers, including british rallie racers, race left hand drive, also I've just realized that the gear lever of the (nice) Strathcarron is
on the right hand! Why??
Cheers,
Alex
Most peoples right hands are stronger...making it easier to do handbrake turns in a left hand drive car with the handbrake on your right hand
having the lever on the left stops brit drivers from trying to wind down the window when changing gear.......which is what I do for the first few
miles of driving 'on the wrong side'
atb
steve
btw flak.........
why doesnt your avatar have any norks?
atb
steve
I dunno Steve...is about the only thing wrong with her actually....
David
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having the lever on the left stops brit drivers from trying to wind down the window when changing gear
It's odd also the other way around, I've been driving left hand drive cars for years and I don't like it when I try to wind down
the window.. on my Locost without windows!!
shes not got all her fingers and her norks are missing
I thought Rally cars were that way 'cos most of the car manufacturers are abroad, and it's a tax issue ?
Jason
Could be Jason, I have no clue myself really, just wondering. Importing cars and that should be very straightforward unless they need to be road legal, which I'm not sure is the case for rallies?
The r/h side issue on race cars that I kow of is because most transaxles have the selector on the right hand side and the easiest way to sort the gear
linkage is by a rod down the right hand side of the car. Look at formula fords, or most formula cars for that matter, also full bodied sports cars etc
that use similar running fear are the same. All the hewland/staffs gearboxes i know of have this arrangement.
Ned.
One of my mates at uni, his dad knows the strathcarron people and borrowed one for a uni open day. We had to look after if for a while as it was one of their show models. It had its gearchange on the left. It was a bike engined one so i dont know if the car engined ones had them on the right. If they did im guessing something to do with the selector as ned said.
i heard it was someting to do with napolean being left handed
I've just read through this thread. Norks? Sorry but that is officially the most lame synonym for 'breasts' i have EVER heard.
Norks? i mean NORKS!?!?! hahaha what were you thinking?
what WERE you thinking?
no really
Norks is a very well known term for those particular items to which you refer.
Kind regards, King Hippy of Norksville.
I don't think he drove a rally car
. Network Q, not tonight Josephine. I agree with benzine, Norks is a dumb description.
Get yer Norks out for the boys dont have the same RING too it does it
Shug
lifted from " history of the world as i see it" by will shakspear
in the years BC (before car) swordsmen were mainly right handed and therefore rode on the left,keeping their sword hand in the right place to attack
oncoming enemy.napolean being short,left handed and french decidec otherwise.
the british empire refused to ride on the other side(dark side) leaving the rest of the world to struggle on driving from the passenger seat.
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Sorry but that is officially the most lame synonym for 'breasts' i have EVER heard.
At last!! I have to admit that I looked for "nork" in my English-Spanish dictionary when I read the post, I was curious, but nothing
appeared. What's that supposed to mean literally?? it, like most other sexually orientated words means nothing.
given a few minutes, i bet all of us could think up 20+ words, and I bet as a forum, we could come up with a hundred.
tits. thats a small bird isnt it? whats up with that then?
rack? que? you mean like for magazine storage?
boobs? what? they are a mistake?
at least norks means bugger all and doesnt have other meanings.
and what the frig does a woman genatals have to go with a moggie?
analysing sexual words is a bit of a waste of time.
'get your small birds out for the boys' doesnt mean much, does it?
atb
steve
From Conrod:- the british empire refused to ride on the other side(dark side) leaving the rest of the world to struggle on driving from the passenger
seat.
I read somewhere of a planned changeover to the driving on the other side if we are to be ruled by a European senate as per T.Blairs' plan. The
schedule is for all vehicles registered before August 1st 2000 to swap in April 2006 and all vehicles registered after August 1st 2000 to change over
in September 2006. Myself, I am sticking to my middle of the road policy.
ive heard this romour a long time ago,how are you going to convert from rhd to lhd?cant be done,driving standards are bad enough at the moment without
having to wory about driving on the dark side as well
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Originally posted by Peteff
From Conrod:- the british empire refused to ride on the other side(dark side) leaving the rest of the world to struggle on driving from the passenger seat.
I read somewhere of a planned changeover to the driving on the other side if we are to be ruled by a European senate as per T.Blairs' plan. The schedule is for all vehicles registered before August 1st 2000 to swap in April 2006 and all vehicles registered after August 1st 2000 to change over in September 2006. Myself, I am sticking to my middle of the road policy
UK driving position has to be that way or we couldn't give a proper Vsign out the drivers window. A V sign with the left hand just isn't
right.
Also heard bizzarre theory about the camber on the road makes it easier4 to get on horses if you ride on the left. Prefer the sword hand theory -
explains the way my coat buttons up as well.
Bob C
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In the US cars started out built with the wheel on the right but changed circa 1905.
Didn't you mean "carts"??
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And that more modern inovation the indicator switched has changed from the left to the right and back to the left.
. Well all the Jap cars i have driven have had the indicator switch on the right.... I have only driven all of
2...and both were Mistubushi's(one old, one newish)... The schedule is for all vehicles registered before August 1st 2000 to swap in April 2006 and all vehicles registered after August 1st 2000 to change
over in September 2006. Myself, I am sticking to my middle of the road policy.
For six months we would be driving in opposite directions on the same side. Perhaps it's a good job I made it up
it sounds like the kind of thing they would do tho,sweden changed over in the 60/70,s didnt it?
i had a conversation like this at work with some one who was adamant it would be asy to change over, wouldn't accept it needed serious re-engineering of the road system to work eg cambers on roads etc.
Round our way Norks is the correct medical term.
You are a N° 1 Peteff
This one of the best jokes i've seen lately!!!
Didn't the Swedes and/or Danes change over circa 1960 odd ? Must have been fun :-)
As for me two worst place must be Inndonesia -- they may drive on the correct side but still don't have a driving test or traffic patrols amd
of course the ubiquitous Honda 50 carries the same load we need a Transit for in Europe..
I did not caused too many problems back in those days.
With the overcrowded roads and traffic agression of today that would be a nice one i guess,changing direction.
Does anyone knows if Napoleon could look over the steering wheel or did he had to look between the spokes?
Vietnam must be the funiest place to drive:they dont have a traffic code !!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by DavidM
Round our way Norks is the correct medical term.
Who is familiar with the term "chebs"?
(o)(o)
OK.
so we drive on the left because of our sword hand, (feasible.)
Railways were built by the Brits and therefore run on the left. (makes me proud)
Why do river boats drive on the right...
John
PS Don't forget the puppies...(0)(0)..
No it makes the water run down the drains. In medieval jousting tournaments the riders rode on the left side of a divider so it goes back a long way
in our history. By the way conrod, the left is considered to be the dark side throughout history, right back to the heraldic symbols on shields where
a left hander would have a "bar sinistre" in his family crest.