theconrodkid
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 08:29 AM |
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erm........
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4610368636
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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graememk
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 08:38 AM |
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thats got to be a joke .....hasnt it ?
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[Edited on 11/2/06 by graememk]
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iank
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 08:41 AM |
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You mean having a postal worker test and give '2 thumbs up' isn't something you insist on?
Or do you think having the passenger operate the indicators a tad inconvenient.
[Edited on 11/2/06 by iank]
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Humbug
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 08:50 AM |
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I woudn't fancy the risk of that belt stretching and/or slipping at a crucial moment !!
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907
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 08:55 AM |
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A missed opportunity there,
with a different pulley it could become a "quick rack conversion"
Paul G
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Peteff
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 09:17 AM |
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I like the instant kneecapper in the passenger/other footwell
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Danozeman
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 09:34 AM |
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Bloody hell Thats insane.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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donut
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 09:54 AM |
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Words fail me!!!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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EddThompson
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 10:01 AM |
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without being toooo serious, i seem to recall they use right hand drive vehicles in the states to deliver mail, and in some places they have to use
there own vehicle, or pay for it. so perhaps its just aimed as a postal delivery vehicle.
but totaly bizare anyway  suppose they have no mot or the like.
edd
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Syd Bridge
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 10:19 AM |
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When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, all the posties drove a RH Drive thing that looked exactly like a WW2 Jeep. Explains that thing then.
Syd.
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rayward
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 10:32 AM |
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Would it pass SVA then????.
Ray
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jack trolley
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 03:11 PM |
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There is another one! 
Both of these vehicles are available in RHD - get a new rack & dash and do a
proper job instead of those bodges. 
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dmottaway
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 03:25 PM |
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you are right! rural postal delivery people drive their own vehicles. most just drive unconverted cars/trucks, but sit on the right side. they
steer with one hand and let their left foot do the go/stop function!
it is my understanding that there are no regulations on this type conversion, sadly. even the vehicles converted for the handicapped have no
oversight. imagine, a full sized van converted to total control by joystick, and no legal oversight! total go/stop/left/right using two fingers of
one hand. scary.
was a case here, recently, of a handicap conversion van whose controls failed. van continued, out of control, off the road, over a field, and into
the woods. driver survived, unharmed, but because he couldn't get out of the van unaided, he died before he was found a week later.
we do some scary things over here.
dave
Somewhere, in Texas, a village is missing its idiot.
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indykid
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 06:03 PM |
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why do they have to be right hand drive?
i really can't understand it.
tom
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 11/2/06 at 06:38 PM |
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It is so that they get in and out on the pavement ( sidewalk) side of the vehicle
Must be a safety thing then.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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andkilde
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| posted on 12/2/06 at 09:19 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Confused but excited.
It is so that they get in and out on the pavement ( sidewalk) side of the vehicle
Must be a safety thing then.
They drive along the shoulder and drop mail into roadside mounted rural mailboxes without getting out of the vehicle. In the "wilds" of
rural US & Canada houses can be miles apart -- usually a few hundred yards at any rate.
Cheers, Ted
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