> That does not follow. Swedish cars are left-hand-drive. Even in the long-
> distant past when they drove on the left side of the road ( I think the change
> was in the early Sixties ) the SAABs and Volvos built in Sweden for Swedish
> sale were all left-hand-drive!
>
> Your Land Rover is probably a British-spec one. Maybe that model was not made
> for European (that is to say, Continental) sale, and the Swede who wanted one
> just ordered it over from England. Maybe they can still do that sort of thing
> there, you sure have major problems doing that here in the USA since 1968.
>
> How the heck did it get to the USA, anyway? I have heard that military
> personnel can sometimes bypass the car import restrictions. Is it exempt from
> 1978 car laws because it is a Diesel truck?
>
You are probably correct that it was imported to Sweden from GB. I don't
know the details of how it got here from Sweden, but I suspect that it was
bought and used by a U.S. military person and then brought over. That is how
my Triumph 1800 got to the U.S.
>
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The Sports Works of Greeley
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