Date:         Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:28:57 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: South Africa Vanagown
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>A decent importer could get it declared "Substantially the same as"
>so I suspect it wouldn't be a big deal.  Might be easier to swing it
>through Canada first since that's an easier country to import from.

I would consider having the wheel on the wrong side dangerous. If you
want to overtake a truck or another van, you CANNOT SEE what is
coming the other way until you have puuled out into the wrong lane
BANG. Same when pulling out from a papallel-parking curbside meter
spot... you can't see what's coming up behind you. I had a
Corvair-"powered" LHD 69 Bay for a while, and always felt most
uncomfortable driving it (no, I didn't feel uncomfortable driving LHD
Corollas in Newfoundland or Florida... incidentally, I spent 4 months
in the former & over a week around Tampa-Fort Myers and didn't see A
SINGLE vanagon during the entire time).

But it should be a relatively easy conversion to LHD... may be a
bolt-in job if the RHD mounting points are already present and
steering-column/pedal apertures are prepunched and blanked off. The
one with a BenT for 16" Syncros would probably scavenge the RHD bits
from you... (jeez, Ben, you must be REALLY short if you can fit into
such a small vehicle).
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut