I guess Mercedes 540K was not a sports car, nor the BMW 328. Of course, the
Italians and and French would have preferred neither of these companies or
Auto Union to have raced pre-war.
>From: James Holland <J.Holland@g-icap.com>
>Reply-To: James Holland <J.Holland@g-icap.com>
>To: "'Simon Favre'" <simon@mondes.com>, Paul Meis <pmeis@wfubmc.edu>
>CC: Vintage <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: RHD
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:31:14 -0000
>
>Never heard of Bugatti?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Favre [SMTP:simon@mondes.com]
> > Sent: 29 January 2001 21:26
> > To: Paul Meis
> > Cc: Vintage
> > Subject: Re: RHD
> >
> > 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
>
>
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