Re: RHD Scouts

[Jarrod Emery <jede@domain.elided>]

ihc-digest wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:59:15 -0500
> From: Tom and Amanda Lang <rustnrot@domain.elided>
> Subject: Two Questions for Our Australian Cousins
> 
> On the subject of RHD Scouts (of which most of our readers know I am
> converting to front-disks on my '72 at a glacial pace).  Anyway, the Scout
> Gold Portfolio (a an excellent book of days-gone-by Scout Road Tests, some
> of which were were authored by Australian writers), got me thinking *why*
> LHD cars are illegal in Australia and RHD ones are *not* illegal in North
> America, where certainly here traffic must be much worse.  Does the law
> hark back to the days when Australia was a British colony and it was a way
> to "insure" vehicles were bought from the "mother country"--way back before
> the Japanese built cars (which I'm sure you all know are RHD for their
> country)?
> Thanks, and what's the second question?  Oh yea, is it *really* true in the
> Southern Hemisphere that water goes down a drain in a counter-clockwise
> direction?? (add Andy Rooney voice inflection)


Can't say about the RHD thing(every state is different making it
obligatoryin a different year).Some states allow it if you can prove it
was previously registered LHD there....

The drain?Well,I just checked,and NOPE! Of course,YMMV.

JED

> Subject: Re: Post Office Scouts
> >
> >
> There were 6745 RHD's built for the US Post Office in 1967, so they once
> weren't rare.  30 years later, I'd be surprised if 10% of those still
> exist.  But RHD was also an option for the Scout II's and I think it may
> have been available on some 80/800's, so there are more of them out there
> somewhere, but I don't have any numbers.
> 
> Howard Pletcher
> Howteron Products Scout Parts

Thanks,JED.