- 1. RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Kevin Smith <ksmith40@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:35:25 -0500
- My ol' Toyota truck needed a starter and my mother was on vacation, so I borrowed her Jeep Cherokee with Right Hand Drive (she's rural route mail carrier). What a pain! I always thought a RHD car wou
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00220.html (8,022 bytes)
- 2. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:32:49 +0930
- Ummmm, well, yeah. As far as I am concerned, you can either drive on the RIGHT side of the road or the CORRECT side of the road - you can't do both :-) -- Eric '68MGB MkII Adelaide, South Australia "
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00224.html (7,904 bytes)
- 3. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Aubrey Schneider <aschneider@shaw.ca>
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 19:05:09 -0700
- As Eric said, wrong or correct. You answered the entire question yourself. What you are used to. In my early days of racing my Anglia, I would throw the car into the corner & with my left hand play
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00226.html (8,374 bytes)
- 4. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:10:35 EDT
- I drive a RHD Jensen CV-8 ands switch back and forth with no problem, and have jumped from a LHD MGA to a RHD TR-2 at the track and raced both with no problems. I'm sure with practice you'd be able t
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00234.html (7,864 bytes)
- 5. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Zubrovka <zubrovka@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 02:40:39 -0400
- This made me remember riding one night across the countryside of Scotland in a Damiler Double Six sedan (Jaguar XJ). The gentleman driving was really getting into the spirit of it, but every time we
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00235.html (8,493 bytes)
- 6. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:06:35 +0100
- That's your problem, you are supposed to drive on the same side of the road whether you are in a RHD or a LHD ... /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00240.html (8,112 bytes)
- 7. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@monmouth.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:59:37 -0400
- In 1990 the NEMGTR Circuit of Britain had 89 cars travel some 3000 miles over three weeks in Britain. 90% had never driven on the left before and were in left hand drive cars. (about 75% had never be
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00244.html (9,143 bytes)
- 8. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:24:16 +0100
- Not what I taught my kids though. When they started driving I asked what different action they would take if confronted by a cat on the road in front of them, or a dog, or a child. Initially they sai
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00248.html (8,914 bytes)
- 9. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: S & M Barnes <barnes@mghorizon.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:05:02 -0500
- As you said here, it is what you are used to, as a Brit living in the US I know exactly what you went through, I could drive on the wrong side of the road with no problems as I had driven in Europe m
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00252.html (9,557 bytes)
- 10. RE: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Hoy" <list@marketvalue.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:48:45 -0600
- Hey, the Cat Wars are back! We needed a bit of excitement on this list. Thanks Paul Larry Hoy /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00254.html (7,930 bytes)
- 11. RE: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Chuck Renner <crenner@dynalivery.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:07:39 -0500
- Driving a RHD car in a LHD country becomes a pain after the novelty wears off. Think about all the places you go....drive through fast food, the bank or ATM, toll booths.... /// or try http://www.tea
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00260.html (7,679 bytes)
- 12. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
- Telewest SEZ - This seems to be an urban phenomenon. I grew up and learned to drive in the country, and the protocol was that pedestrians stood on the side of the road, waited for traffic to clear, t
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00266.html (9,867 bytes)
- 13. Re: RHD, no thanks. (score: 1)
- Author: Stephen West-Fisher <steve@coastaldatasystems.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:26:29 -0400
- Use reverse :-) -- Stephen West-Fisher Coastal Data Systems 727.418.9774 http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/ /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archiv
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00267.html (7,870 bytes)
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