Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was about to say pretty much the same thing. The UK-manufactured cars (race and raid) were RHD except possibly for those for mainland European customers for road use (von Karajan had one for instance)and the few built for the US in the UK. There was a long history of sportscars being RHD which faded out in the 60s or 70s as I recall. Peter Dzwig PHC wrote: > On 30 Apr 2006, at 14:01, Roy Feldman wrote: > >> "All GT40's have the steering on the right" is simply not true. > > > You must have a long arm to reach that gear stick! :-) > > Only kidding. I guess you're talking about the Mk IV, which was made in > the States, some for racing and some for the road. I believe they only > made 12 of these all together, and the racing ones - including the 1967 > Le Mans winner - were certainly right hand drive. I'm assuming the road > cars were LHD. As indeed some of the (only 7 in total) Mk IIIs probably > were, those that were intended for US non-race customers. > > As usual my statement was quite as definitive as it should have been... > Sorry. > > I understand a lot of US circuits are anti-clockwise, notably those used > for NASCAR - is this true? If so it would have made a lot of sense for > Kar Kraft, builders of the Mk IV, to build some LHD racers. > > I think we can assume that almost all of the 111 cars built at Slough in > England were RHD, and at least half the 12 cars built in Michigan were > RHD, so I'll modify my original statement: > > "Almost all GT40s have the steering wheel on the right". > > Replicas built after 1967 are, of course, a different thing altogether... > > P. > > ******* > Paul Hardy Carter > www.paulhardycarter.com > +44 (0)20 7871 7553 > ******* > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >