I know you guys already know this, but Japan is a "Metric" country and has RH
drive cars as their standard. Maybe this originated in Japan. In addition,
certain European countries drove on the left side of the street and converted to
the right side sometime in the early 70s.
Michael Tarelka
Alameda, CA
RoadsteRob@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
> You might have guessed that I'd know a bit about the lhd kilometer calibrated
> cars - very few came to Europe - I have a rare French brochure for a low
> screen '67 Solex advertising 200km/h performance, and a Belgian full line
> brochure with a pic of a '67 Solex boasting 205km/h - I know one low screen
> came to France and that high and low screens 1600s/2000s were sold into
> Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Check out my European history,
> which includes a small pic of the French brochure, via the following URL:-
>
> http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/euroindex.htm
>
> Larger European brochure images, including a beautiful rare '67 Solex ad, can
> be found under the European Register's archive pages, URL:-
>
> http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/archive.htm
>
> Andrew, hope this helps in your quest for low screen knowledge.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
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