Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky
Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are
starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized places
have them.

Earle

"twaldron" <thomasOBVIOUS@rubicons.com> wrote in message
news:W419g.75722$H71.41041@newssvr13.news.prodigy. com...
> Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
>
> tw
> __________________________________________________ ___________________
> 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco
>
> "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
>
> Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940
>
> Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
> A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton
> capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II.
> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>
> UCT Staff Member - dmatthee wrote:
> > I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use
> > to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except
> > when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I fall
> > back, look and put foot...
> > It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person
> > used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes
> > to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a
> > country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
> >
> > Dirk matthee

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky
Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are
starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized places
have them.

Earle

"twaldron" <thomasOBVIOUS@rubicons.com> wrote in message
news:W419g.75722$H71.41041@newssvr13.news.prodigy. com...
> Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
>
> tw
> __________________________________________________ ___________________
> 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco
>
> "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
>
> Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940
>
> Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
> A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton
> capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II.
> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>
> UCT Staff Member - dmatthee wrote:
> > I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use
> > to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except
> > when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I fall
> > back, look and put foot...
> > It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person
> > used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes
> > to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a
> > country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
> >
> > Dirk matthee

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky
Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are
starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized places
have them.

Earle

"twaldron" <thomasOBVIOUS@rubicons.com> wrote in message
news:W419g.75722$H71.41041@newssvr13.news.prodigy. com...
> Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
>
> tw
> __________________________________________________ ___________________
> 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco
>
> "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
>
> Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940
>
> Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
> A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton
> capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II.
> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>
> UCT Staff Member - dmatthee wrote:
> > I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use
> > to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except
> > when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I fall
> > back, look and put foot...
> > It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person
> > used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes
> > to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a
> > country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
> >
> > Dirk matthee

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

I think they are designed by the idiot Civil Engineers who design parking
lots that you cannot easily get in or out of without jumping curbs or going
over berms...... ' gotta love that 4WD"


"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:4464c23e$0$23715$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
>I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky
> Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are
> starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized
> places
> have them.
>
> Earle
>
> "twaldron" <thomasOBVIOUS@rubicons.com> wrote in message
> news:W419g.75722$H71.41041@newssvr13.news.prodigy. com...
>> Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
>>
>> tw
>> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>> 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco
>>
>> "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
>>
>> Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940
>>
>> Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
>> A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton
>> capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II.
>> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>>
>> UCT Staff Member - dmatthee wrote:
>> > I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use
>> > to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except
>> > when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I
>> > fall
>> > back, look and put foot...
>> > It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person
>> > used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes
>> > to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a
>> > country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
>> >
>> > Dirk matthee
>
>

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

I think they are designed by the idiot Civil Engineers who design parking
lots that you cannot easily get in or out of without jumping curbs or going
over berms...... ' gotta love that 4WD"


"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:4464c23e$0$23715$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
>I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky
> Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are
> starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized
> places
> have them.
>
> Earle
>
> "twaldron" <thomasOBVIOUS@rubicons.com> wrote in message
> news:W419g.75722$H71.41041@newssvr13.news.prodigy. com...
>> Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
>>
>> tw
>> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>> 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco
>>
>> "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
>>
>> Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940
>>
>> Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
>> A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton
>> capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II.
>> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>>
>> UCT Staff Member - dmatthee wrote:
>> > I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use
>> > to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except
>> > when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I
>> > fall
>> > back, look and put foot...
>> > It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person
>> > used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes
>> > to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a
>> > country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
>> >
>> > Dirk matthee
>
>

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

I think they are designed by the idiot Civil Engineers who design parking
lots that you cannot easily get in or out of without jumping curbs or going
over berms...... ' gotta love that 4WD"


"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:4464c23e$0$23715$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
>I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky
> Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are
> starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized
> places
> have them.
>
> Earle
>
> "twaldron" <thomasOBVIOUS@rubicons.com> wrote in message
> news:W419g.75722$H71.41041@newssvr13.news.prodigy. com...
>> Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
>>
>> tw
>> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>> 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco
>>
>> "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
>>
>> Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940
>>
>> Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
>> A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton
>> capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II.
>> __________________________________________________ ___________________
>>
>> UCT Staff Member - dmatthee wrote:
>> > I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use
>> > to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except
>> > when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I
>> > fall
>> > back, look and put foot...
>> > It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person
>> > used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes
>> > to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a
>> > country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
>> >
>> > Dirk matthee
>
>

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

Earle Horton wrote:
> "Danny" <danny@nospam.gaggia-espresso.com> wrote in message
> news:4chkfmF15rjmgU1@individual.net...
> ---snippy---
>
>>Thousands of people in the UK drive this way when in Europe mainland.
>> Haven't heard news reports of thousands being killed on holiday.
>>Drive within the limitations - if you can't see far enough ahead to
>>overtake, don't.
>>
>>A friend of mine has moved to France and still insists on driving his
>>RHD car in a LHD country. I've done it many times, with no ill effect.
>>
>
> I am just curious now. Are England, Canada, Singapore and Australia the
> only countries in the world with RHD, or are there more? I drove a LHD car
> in a LHD country, Spain, last year, and I am still getting over it. It
> wasn't so much RHD vs. LHD, but the tiny narrow streets, the insanely
> homicidal drivers, and the proliferation of traffic rotaries ("rotondas")
> that would put my native New England to shame.
>
> Earle
>
>

Over here we are used to tiny streets and roundabouts. Same in France
(or most of Europe). Only problem I have is when in Germany. If you
are at the traffic lights (intersection) and they turn green you can't
turn right straight away because pedestrians have right of way. In
addition, most streets in towns have a seperate bus lane, and I often
turned into that by mistake...

Since I ride my Honda Blackbird through Europe anyway, left or right
doesn't matter, except after you pull off a petrol station and ride
down the road on the wrong side until you (or someone else)
realises...(often my brave pillion)...

--
Regards,
Danny

http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
http://www.dannyscoffee.com (UK advert for my mobile espresso service)
http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/European online ordering for Malabar
Gold blend)
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Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

Earle Horton wrote:
> "Danny" <danny@nospam.gaggia-espresso.com> wrote in message
> news:4chkfmF15rjmgU1@individual.net...
> ---snippy---
>
>>Thousands of people in the UK drive this way when in Europe mainland.
>> Haven't heard news reports of thousands being killed on holiday.
>>Drive within the limitations - if you can't see far enough ahead to
>>overtake, don't.
>>
>>A friend of mine has moved to France and still insists on driving his
>>RHD car in a LHD country. I've done it many times, with no ill effect.
>>
>
> I am just curious now. Are England, Canada, Singapore and Australia the
> only countries in the world with RHD, or are there more? I drove a LHD car
> in a LHD country, Spain, last year, and I am still getting over it. It
> wasn't so much RHD vs. LHD, but the tiny narrow streets, the insanely
> homicidal drivers, and the proliferation of traffic rotaries ("rotondas")
> that would put my native New England to shame.
>
> Earle
>
>

Over here we are used to tiny streets and roundabouts. Same in France
(or most of Europe). Only problem I have is when in Germany. If you
are at the traffic lights (intersection) and they turn green you can't
turn right straight away because pedestrians have right of way. In
addition, most streets in towns have a seperate bus lane, and I often
turned into that by mistake...

Since I ride my Honda Blackbird through Europe anyway, left or right
doesn't matter, except after you pull off a petrol station and ride
down the road on the wrong side until you (or someone else)
realises...(often my brave pillion)...

--
Regards,
Danny

http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
http://www.dannyscoffee.com (UK advert for my mobile espresso service)
http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/European online ordering for Malabar
Gold blend)
swap Z for above characters in email address to reply

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

Earle Horton wrote:
> "Danny" <danny@nospam.gaggia-espresso.com> wrote in message
> news:4chkfmF15rjmgU1@individual.net...
> ---snippy---
>
>>Thousands of people in the UK drive this way when in Europe mainland.
>> Haven't heard news reports of thousands being killed on holiday.
>>Drive within the limitations - if you can't see far enough ahead to
>>overtake, don't.
>>
>>A friend of mine has moved to France and still insists on driving his
>>RHD car in a LHD country. I've done it many times, with no ill effect.
>>
>
> I am just curious now. Are England, Canada, Singapore and Australia the
> only countries in the world with RHD, or are there more? I drove a LHD car
> in a LHD country, Spain, last year, and I am still getting over it. It
> wasn't so much RHD vs. LHD, but the tiny narrow streets, the insanely
> homicidal drivers, and the proliferation of traffic rotaries ("rotondas")
> that would put my native New England to shame.
>
> Earle
>
>

Over here we are used to tiny streets and roundabouts. Same in France
(or most of Europe). Only problem I have is when in Germany. If you
are at the traffic lights (intersection) and they turn green you can't
turn right straight away because pedestrians have right of way. In
addition, most streets in towns have a seperate bus lane, and I often
turned into that by mistake...

Since I ride my Honda Blackbird through Europe anyway, left or right
doesn't matter, except after you pull off a petrol station and ride
down the road on the wrong side until you (or someone else)
realises...(often my brave pillion)...

--
Regards,
Danny

http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
http://www.dannyscoffee.com (UK advert for my mobile espresso service)
http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/European online ordering for Malabar
Gold blend)
swap Z for above characters in email address to reply

Re: Right-Hand drive?
 

<carlsaiyed@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1147269080.163128.50450@j73g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> I've been offered a 2003 6cyl AT hard top hard door TJ with 30,000
> miles for $3000. It looks to be in perfect condition. The only catch is
> that it is right-hand drive. I don't know the laws in Virgina
> concerning right-hand drive, or if I'd have trouble with lifting the
> Jeep or anything else. I don't mind right-hand drive, but I'm concerned
> it might be a scam. Anyone know anything?

So how much do you want for it?


Jas
Australia :-)