Hello from the UK!

[ianhunter]

Hi!

Just thought I would register and say hello! Anyone looking for guidance on converting these cars to right hand drive, I am happy to help!
Festive Greetings to all fellow Factory Five owners everywhere! Just love this car!

Best rgeards

Ian

[AJ Roadster NJ]

Well hello there Ian, greetings from (New) Jersey, USA. I always try to make a point of saying hello to you Brits, as I have spent a great deal of time on your side of the pond working, from London to Croydon to Glasgow to Edinburgh to Bristol and a ton of other places.

Is that picture real, did you really build a right hand drive Roadster? I always enjoyed the right hand drive a lot, still do. If I ever get a vintage racecar (say an old Spitfire or somesuch) it will be rhd.

AJ

[skullandbones]

Hi Ian,

You Brits have really messed it up for the rest of us (just kidding). I was in the Cayman Islands and rented a right hand steering car. It was very nerve racking at first. I kept repeating the montra the rental car guy gave me, " Left is right and right you're dead."

Send us some pics of your right hander, OK. See you later. WEK.

[Mike N]

Glad to see that you made it over to the "Factory" forum Ian. I think it would be great if you created a thread over here documenting your RH drive conversion. I remember following your posts on the other forum on your conversion and they were fascinating.

Welcome aboard.

[ianhunter]

Thank you for your kind words and - yes, it really is right hand drive and not Photshop! A friend of mine also converted a Coupe, which you can see in one of the pictures. In the New Year when I hope to have a bit more time, I will start a new thread and add some build pictures, so you can see what I did and how I did it!!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i273/iancobrahunter/MyACCobra.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i273/iancobrahunter/Mycarfromabove.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i273/iancobrahunter/Mycardash.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i273/iancobrahunter/Mycarinterior.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i273/iancobrahunter/AlternatorMount.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i273/iancobrahunter/ChewtonGlenpics1.jpg

Regards

Ian

[alangat]

Right hand steering wheel is like metric - Americans will never get used to it

[AJ Roadster NJ]

From Alan;


Right hand steering wheel is like metric - Americans will never get used to it

I dunno Alan, I had several years back in the '90s when I put more miles on a Peugot 405 in England than I put on my own car here, because of work. I got very accustomed to the RHD, and in fact at one point it felt weird to get back into a LHD car!

AJ

PS I really, really loved that Peugot. There is a roundabout (rotary to us Yanks) just outside Dumphries in Scotland that can be taken at 62 mph but not 63 mph. Don't ask me how I know that...

[riptide motorsport]

Welcome......nice conversions there.

[gtaroger]

Welcome! Roger