>From: "C. Marin Faure" <faurecm@halcyon.com>
I almost forgot the real reason the Brits have right hand steering. The
exhaust pipes on an inline engine exit the left side and run under the left
footwell. Designed to keep the American Drivers feet toasty warm all year
around. Had a Healey that would glue your sneakers to the floor board, it
got so hot.
Aloha
Peter
>I'll tell you this; a right hand drive Series Land Rover is a hell of a lot
>easier to work on than a left-hand drive Land Rover, because the clutch and
>brake master cylinders are farther out in the engine bay. There's none of
>this "let's tuck the clutch master up under the left wing and make the poor
>sods take the whole damn body off to get at it" sort of thing. (I built a
>hinged hatch in my wing that lets me get at the clutch master very handily,
>but not until I'd done the "remove the body" thing once.)
>
>
>________________________
>C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle, WA
>
>
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