braaap
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These would have been my worries, too. Closest I came to a rhd car was a golf I once considered to buy. It was rhd, but automatic and I was sure I could manage that. My main worry was the ticket machines in parking garages.
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And passing.
You have to get all the way out of your lane to look around the car you want to pass, to see if there is room to do it. ( RHD car on right lane road & LHD car on left lane road).
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glenanderson
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1932 Ford 5W Coupe.glenanderson
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Nov 29, 2023 10:18:18 GMT
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I spent many years working as a driver (lorries mainly, vans sometimes and cars every now and then), across Europe and beyond. Both left and right hand drive. Maybe my mechanical affinity helped, but I never had any issues with changing from one to the other. The time you need to watch is when you’re tired. That’s when you’ll try changing gear with the window winder.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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misteralz
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I may drive a Volkswagen, but I'm scene tax exempt!
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Nov 29, 2023 11:39:05 GMT
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That's me seven years in mainland Europe now, all of them with my RHD mk5 GTI, three of them with my RHD 964, and nearly four of them with an LHD TT. Literally the only time it's a problem is when you're following a ditherer through town who then decides to stop without signalling, meaning you have to properly crane over to see past them to pass them. Parking garages are fine, and before I had the Peagé bipper it just meant my passenger had to pay French and Italian tolls.
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spacekadett
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F*cking take that Hans Brrix!!
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Nov 29, 2023 13:39:26 GMT
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My introduction to driving any distance in a lhd was taking a mates Wartburg to work for a MOT. Lhd, column shift manual with a freewheel took a little concentration to start with but got used to it after a mile or two.
The fabrication on this continues to amaze every time I dip in this thread. Does not help my want for an early Ford tho 😂
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Mechanic's rule #1... If the car works, anything left on the floor after you finished wasn't needed in the first place
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Nov 29, 2023 21:39:18 GMT
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"Just" drop a '32 shell over this and mess with peoples heads in the canyons??
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Last Edit: Nov 29, 2023 21:39:55 GMT by ducklooker
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Enbloc
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Nov 30, 2023 15:28:59 GMT
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Bouncing from left and right hand drive cars since I was a teenager has never been a problem.
Motorbikes on the other do catch me out!
Primarily riding classic Brit bikes, when I do get on a 'modern' bike with not only the gear change and brake on opposite sides but the gearchange also being reversed has me changing down rather up or worse tapping the rear brake expecting a gearchange!
Maybe my feet aren't as well connected to me brain as my hands are? They are further away.
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Hi, saw this and though of you. It's CGI generated, but looks cool.
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braaap
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It's just not a fiat. It's a saporoshez.
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Last Edit: Dec 4, 2023 13:19:06 GMT by braaap
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That is pretty cool... Makes me want to get back to working on the spaceframe 500. Which I will, as soon as this one is to a good stopping point.
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I used to work for a company that had four RHD and one LHD nissan kingcabs.
I never really had any issue swapping between them though it is annoying when your passenger automatically yanks the handbrake on when they get out!
That back panel and wheel mount are exquisite.
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New addition to the pack. This little guy. Sofar he's good with the cats, but afraid of our other dogs. First day, all he did was sleep ( probably sleeping off al the emotion).
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I've allowed myself a couple of sidesteps and distractions, but even without that, the garnish moldings have been a big project in itself. I wouldn't have guessed making those would have taken the amount of hours they have. But they did... That's OK. Just glad they are done. Well... Kinda. By the time the last ones were done, I'd gotten better at building custom 1932 5W garnish moldings. So the first ones (the ones on the doors) now need a little more work to correct some details, as well as a cool little modification I thought of later on. I'll do all that when I fix the doors, but there is other stuff I want to do first.
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When I lined up the 1/4 window garnish molding wit the one on the door, the gap between it and the 1/4 panel sheet metal was about 3/4" The same amount of gap there is between the door and its garnish. On the door you need that much gap, because that window rolls down ( the guides, seals, etc all take up space). So I cut a strip. Gave it a 90 with my sheet metal brake. Stretched it to the right contour. Cut to size and weld. Trim to 1/2" Weld in the car, grind welds down. So now it has the correct gap. This is what it looks like on the inside.
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braaap
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And here I stand in awe once again faced with Your magnificent craftmanship abilities!
So it's almost a sacrilege to ask a question, that I have in mind for a long time:
With all the rust inside the cabin now hidden behind all Your welded in instalments, don't You fear it may rust through the metal from the inside? Or don't You have to worry about that living in Arizona?
Sorry for that, certainly not meant as criticism, more worrying, after all that high amount of work.
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Very nice....stunning work as always 👍🏻
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Thanks braaap Rust never sleeps, but here in Arizona it goes so much slower you have to worry less about it. I'm covering up some bare metal which would be a mistake in the UK or the Netherlands where I'm from. When all the fab work is done, I'll take the car completely apart for blasting and paint. So any exposed/visible sheetmetal will be protected. My 1928 Model A Roadster has been in bare metal for more than 20 years now (with no paint/ primer/ clearcoat/ WD40/ or anything like that), and all I have to do is scuff it up when it starts to get dull. To bring it back to a fresh sheetmetal shine. I've had to do that about 3 times in those 20 years... (but I've taken it to the midwest for an event, and it got really rusty in just a couple of hours). And my 1958 Fiat (a brand known for its ability to rust) is in bare metal too. On that one, over the years the heat and sunshine have gradually baked the original paint off leaving a beautiful aged weathered surface, that would be impossible to copy. ( I'm not using the fashionable word "patina"... ) So yes, if I wanted to protect it forever, I'd have to use all the tricks and protection you guys have to use. But doing it the way I'm doing it, I'm confident it will last a long time. Probably longer than a paint job will last out here, possibly longer than I'll be around...
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