Alez
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:11 PM |
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Gear lever on the right hand? Why?
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
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flak monkey
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:24 PM |
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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
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:35 PM |
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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
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:37 PM |
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btw flak.........
why doesnt your avatar have any norks?
atb
steve
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flak monkey
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:41 PM |
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I dunno Steve...is about the only thing wrong with her actually....
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Alez
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:50 PM |
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quote:
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!!
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barrie sharp
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 02:52 PM |
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shes not got all her fingers and her norks are missing
the cars looking good" a blind man would be pleased to see it"
''stop press'' the blind mans seen it said "it felt ok"
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Deckman001
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 03:04 PM |
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I thought Rally cars were that way 'cos most of the car manufacturers are abroad, and it's a tax issue ?
Jason
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Alez
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 03:12 PM |
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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?
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ned
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 03:27 PM |
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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.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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greggors84
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 06:17 PM |
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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.
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 10:42 PM |
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i heard it was someting to do with napolean being left handed
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Benzine
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 11:08 PM |
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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
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Metal Hippy
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 11:13 PM |
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Norks is a very well known term for those particular items to which you refer.
Kind regards, King Hippy of Norksville.
Cock off or cock on. You choose.
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Peteff
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 11:28 PM |
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i heard it was someting to do with napolean being left handed
I don't think he drove a rally car . Network Q, not tonight Josephine. I agree with benzine, Norks is a dumb description.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Hugh Paterson
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 11:52 PM |
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Hmmmmmm
Get yer Norks out for the boys dont have the same RING too it does it
Shug
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 06:35 AM |
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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.
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Alez
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 06:42 AM |
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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??
Pic of a right hand drive Strathcarron with gear lever on the very right:
http://www.strathcarron-sports-cars.com/PHOTOS/01interior.htm
Cheers,
Alex
[Edited on 13/5/04 by Alez]
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 08:32 AM |
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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
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flak monkey
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 08:54 AM |
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Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Peteff
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 09:27 AM |
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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.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 12:12 PM |
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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
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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britishtrident
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 12:33 PM |
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quote:
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.
Seem to remermber Napoleon started the trouble bec ause he wouldn't have his troops march on the same side as Wellingtons. Ironically as
French (and everybody elses) railways were built by Brits they run on the left.
In the US cars started out built with the wheel on the right but changed circa 1905.
In much of africa, asia and the paciffic they drive on the right (at least in theory) -- in the pacific this was partly down to the Japanese
conquest of thev area in WW2.
As for right hand gearchanges most british cars had the gear lever on the right up to about 1930. And that more modern inovation the indicator
switched has changed from the left to the right and back to the left.
[Edited on 13/5/04 by britishtrident]
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Bob C
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 12:38 PM |
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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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Alez
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 12:40 PM |
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quote:
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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