Truck Shop
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Correct--flower carts.
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DMiller
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The Bonneville is a Real Clean unit, 45,000 miles last I looked.
A buddy has a small deal around 5 mile from me around Labor day . I took my tractor and Jeep.
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Pony
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Truck Shop
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Nice trucks------but as usual the steering wheel is on the wrong side.
DMiller
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Roo guards look nice
DMiller
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The kid was eating his lunch snack, ruined it fir him.
Was stripping down a Lil Cutie mini Orange, looked at it and noted is just like munching the female Lil Cuties, gotta watch for strings. He threw up when it damned on him.
Was stripping down a Lil Cutie mini Orange, looked at it and noted is just like munching the female Lil Cuties, gotta watch for strings. He threw up when it damned on him.
MarcusZ1967
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DMiller
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Poor kid is just figuring out we have far more experiences than he has had, as well Nastier! Actually stated so.
OzDozer
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You do know, that for the first decade and half of internal combustion motoring, the U.S. had all the steering wheels on the RHS?
You just screwed up, after you let Henry Ford have his way with regard to steering wheel position!
Truck Shop
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No that was one thing Henry got right...... I didn't screw up--wasn't around then. Those are all
U.S. founded trucks.
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Most people are right handed--so shifter and dash controls work better with right handed folks
when steering is on the left. Roughly 90% of total world population is right handed. Having the
steering on right side the only thing to do is operate the window. Henry had it correct.
U.S. founded trucks.
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Most people are right handed--so shifter and dash controls work better with right handed folks
when steering is on the left. Roughly 90% of total world population is right handed. Having the
steering on right side the only thing to do is operate the window. Henry had it correct.
My Dad bought a IH scout out of the junk yard right hand drive . A rural mail carrier ordered it new but kept wrecking it on the left side. The front axle left side was bent as well as the frame . Dad got it fixed where it was ready for body work but never finished it. I was 10 and drove it some around the farm. It didnt seem alot different to me . He finally sold it to a mail carrier . He used it till he retired then changed over to left hand drive. A good friend has a postal jeep he put a GM 350 in it . I have rode in it several times. On the highway its weird setting on the left side.
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Our current mail carrier has a newer jeep thats rhd....I did a ***? when I walked by it at the gas station....
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Truck Shop
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Mail carrier cars are/were always offered by Chrysler/Dodge, in the 80's most all rural
carriers drove K cars.
carriers drove K cars.
Pony
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DM I actually reckon that the bullbar on the mack looks a bit small for the truck. JMO
Re shifting gears with your left hand, I spent 12mths working in the USA 20 yrs ago, had never driven an auto in my life.
Got over there and boy did it feel funny to try and change gears with the wrong arm. I reckon I hand no skin on the knuckles of my left hand for 6mths. Go to change gears and smack my left hand into the door trying to find the gearstick.
That and when I was a passenger, get in the driver's side by mistake.
Re shifting gears with your left hand, I spent 12mths working in the USA 20 yrs ago, had never driven an auto in my life.
Got over there and boy did it feel funny to try and change gears with the wrong arm. I reckon I hand no skin on the knuckles of my left hand for 6mths. Go to change gears and smack my left hand into the door trying to find the gearstick.
That and when I was a passenger, get in the driver's side by mistake.
DMiller
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Can relate, parents took brother and I to England France Belgium and Germany in 72, Pop had already gained Int’l Driver License to rent cars there. Ford Cortina Station Wagon he rented was a Four speed and was quite the laughs as he slapped the right door as forgot was in RH Drive.
Not certain I could do a Aussie Semi on the ‘Wrong Side’.
Not certain I could do a Aussie Semi on the ‘Wrong Side’.
Truck Shop
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It might take a bit but you would get it.
OzDozer
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It's easy enough to get used to, I've driven LHD and RHD, but the most interesting driving was driving RHD Australian Army vehicles on the right hand side of the road in Vietnam.
But the real problem lies in remembering which side of the ROAD you're supposed to be on.
I went to Europe about 10-12 years ago, and hired cars and drove around, no problem - until the evening when we were in Spain, just outside Bilbao, and we were looking for our accommodation, an old converted Basque farmhouse in the mountains above Bilbao.
It was getting late and dark, I was getting tired, and we couldn't find it.
We pulled into one long driveway and soon realised it wasn't the right one. Drove back out onto the major road and took off again, still looking for the accommodation.
Getting up the road a bit, I realised there was a set of headlights coming towards us on OUR side of the road!!
Only took a couple of seconds to realise I was on HIS side of the road!!! Whoops!!
No harm done, he was still a kilometre away, but anywhere else could have had disastrous consequences. All due to tiredness after a long day.
We get European tourists come here, they hire 4WD's, get out in rural and remote regions and forget where they are, and drive on the RH side of the road, and often have major crashes as a result.
But the real problem lies in remembering which side of the ROAD you're supposed to be on.
I went to Europe about 10-12 years ago, and hired cars and drove around, no problem - until the evening when we were in Spain, just outside Bilbao, and we were looking for our accommodation, an old converted Basque farmhouse in the mountains above Bilbao.
It was getting late and dark, I was getting tired, and we couldn't find it.
We pulled into one long driveway and soon realised it wasn't the right one. Drove back out onto the major road and took off again, still looking for the accommodation.
Getting up the road a bit, I realised there was a set of headlights coming towards us on OUR side of the road!!
Only took a couple of seconds to realise I was on HIS side of the road!!! Whoops!!
No harm done, he was still a kilometre away, but anywhere else could have had disastrous consequences. All due to tiredness after a long day.
We get European tourists come here, they hire 4WD's, get out in rural and remote regions and forget where they are, and drive on the RH side of the road, and often have major crashes as a result.
Truck Shop
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I drove to Dixie the other day.
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