RE: Clive Sutton US right-hand drive conversions

[TooMany2cvs]

Trabi601 said:

I know all about periscopes.

But I can't imagine using one to judge an overtake!

Cumbersome things with no depth perception.

You only need to be able to see if it's safe to move over to have a proper look.

And, with 700bhp, it's not as if you need to be right on the arse of the car you're after passing, is it?

[rottie102]

Thermobaric said:

This will save you £49,995.30.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALUMINIUM-REACHING-MOBILI...

That's what I have in the Corvette for parking booth tickets and pressing buttons

[Trabi601]

TooMany2cvs said:

You only need to be able to see if it's safe to move over to have a proper look.

And, with 700bhp, it's not as if you need to be right on the arse of the car you're after passing, is it?

I don't know, I'm trying to do it with 28bhp

[Mr Snrub]

rottie102 said:

Thermobaric said:

This will save you £49,995.30.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALUMINIUM-REACHING-MOBILI...

That's what I have in the Corvette for parking booth tickets and pressing buttons

And covertly pinching ladies bottoms

[TooMany2cvs]

Trabi601 said:

TooMany2cvs said:

You only need to be able to see if it's safe to move over to have a proper look.

And, with 700bhp, it's not as if you need to be right on the arse of the car you're after passing, is it?

I don't know, I'm trying to do it with 28bhp

<nods> Know THAT feeling!

[BNC47]

I drive a 4th gen Z28, and find LHD no problem at all.
It does, however, teach you not to cut corners when turning right into side streets. :-)

[AyBee]

Insane prices. At under £10k, it may make sense given the cheap US car prices, but at double the original cost, it's not worth it!

[irocfan]

Ridiculous

[Ozzie Osmond]

You'd feel a right wally driving down to Le Mans in your expensively converted RHD American!

[Boshly]

TooMany2cvs said:

You only need to be able to see if it's safe to move over to have a proper look.

And, with 700bhp, it's not as if you need to be right on the arse of the car you're after passing, is it?

No issues with a LHD Hellcat in the UK at all when overtaking (or a vette/Raptor//Mustang/16M) but I can imagine a lack of BHP would make it more difficult.

[redrook]

V8Matthew said:

It's true having an LHD car makes it slightly harder to overtake, but if you still can't do it with 707 horsepower you deserve to be fleeced for that much

Why? So you can pull into oncoming traffic that you can't see because you're on a straight road with even more gusto? You just don't bother when you're driving LHD in the UK.

These prices are actually laughable. But obviously aimed at people for which £30-£50K is small change.

[foxbody-87]

redrook said:

Why? So you can pull into oncoming traffic that you can't see because you're on a straight road with even more gusto? You just don't bother when you're driving LHD in the UK.

These prices are actually laughable. But obviously aimed at people for which £30-£50K is small change.

I bother, and that’s with less than a third of the power of a Hellcat. It really isn’t that difficult to overtake in a LHD car, certainly not enough to warrant those prices

[unsprung]

RHD conversion is so painfully priced

Australians, too, are told to stand and deliver -- and they are not even allowed the choice of LHD (which, for new and new-ish cars, is banned)

I once tried to work out if a "conversion super centre" could dominate the global market and drive down costs -- exporting to all RHD markets from a single location

the engineering might be done in the UK or Oz; production would be strictly Southeast Asia

are you rolling your eyes yet? the maths probably wouldn't work (sigh)