>To Chris Bullock: Congratulations on your new PI TR6!!
Out of couriosity, is there THAT much difference between the two UK v US?
>Driving RHD will be challenging at first. Having spent many years going back
>and forth between the U.S., England and Australia, it only takes me about one
>hour to fully adjust but then it helps considerably that EVERYONE else is
>driving on the left!!
OK, OK who told me to drive on the right the other day, trying to confuse me
eh!!! wondered why I kept getting strange hand gestures off other road users
:-)
>The only troublesome part for me was looking in the
>rearview mirror. Instinctively I look up to the right which puts me staring
>out
>into space!! Dual outside mirrors helped get around that little problem.
>Shifting with your left hand I found to be of no consequence.
I once drove a friend ex-californian Spitfire 1500 which once belonged to an
ex-US serviceman(It was scrapped originally because the seat runner had somehow
cut through the wiring loom!!!!) This was still LHD and I kept punching the
door when I went for the gears, what a daft place to put the gearlever!!! :-)
>A while back there was as thread about driving in the U.S with RHD. While it
>makes no sense to convert a LHD to RHD, driving with the latter is not that
>troublesome. I can only speak from experience. For several months I putted
>around in a surplus U.S. Postal System jeep with RHD. On the California
>streets and freeways, visibility and overtaking
^^^^^^^^^^
In a Jeep???? :-) Why is it RHD though?
>The Bosch pump is an excellent choice. A few TR6 owners in the UK still use
>the
>Lucas pump. Its easy to identify them as they are the ones stranded along
>side
>the road!!
I know sod all about TR6's although ISTR someone saying that the Lucas pump
needed Lead, what about the Bosch one?
Rich
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