And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That lever sticking out of the body on the right side is the shifter. The transmission would have had to be redesigned to allow a left hand drive configuration. Most cars made in the USA at the start of the last century were right hand drive. Horse drawn carriages put the driver on the right so he could use his dominant arm on the brake lever and most early car companies adapted what existed to make horseless carriages. Stutz, Mercer, Cadillac, Oldsmobile and others all made right hand drive cars and then Henry Ford came along.... Al_in_Ottawa
After thinking about it I guess the question answers itself. Those are race cars. They are not made to drive on the public roads. So it doesn't matter.
Why are the French making them all right hand drive?
ReplyDeleteThat lever sticking out of the body on the right side is the shifter. The transmission would have had to be redesigned to allow a left hand drive configuration.
DeleteMost cars made in the USA at the start of the last century were right hand drive. Horse drawn carriages put the driver on the right so he could use his dominant arm on the brake lever and most early car companies adapted what existed to make horseless carriages. Stutz, Mercer, Cadillac, Oldsmobile and others all made right hand drive cars and then Henry Ford came along....
Al_in_Ottawa
After thinking about it I guess the question answers itself. Those are race cars.
ReplyDeleteThey are not made to drive on the public roads. So it doesn't matter.
All exquisitely hand built.
ReplyDeleteRaces run clockwise in Europe, the driver should be on the inside of the turn.
ReplyDeleteMore AI BS
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