Re: RHD

[Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>]

Actually, I believe Italy was driving on the left until this little fracas
we call WWII. All Alfa Romeos that left the factory before WWII were RHD.
The German and French cars were LHD, the Italian and British were RHD. I
guess the French and Germans weren't known for sports cars back then...
;=)

Paul Meis wrote:
> 
> One of the oddities about RHD to me is the fact that despite roads being
> governed by traffic on the right, many expensive European sports cars of the
> twenties and thirties had RHD. I believe this included Hispano-Suiza, and
> Alfa. The reasons for this choice are not clear to me. Was this a way of
> pretending that these grand tourers were meant for competition? Perhaps the
> Alfisti on the list can enlighten us.
> Paul Meis, Team Escargot
> 69 NTM sports racer, RHD
> Honda S2000, LHD