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May 17, 2018 | 03:07 AM

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Well here's something you don't see everyday. It's not a photoshop, a shop in Australia does the conversion.

May 17, 2018 | 07:44 AM

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Amazing. My C7 lives in the States, but I spend most of my time now living and working in a right-hand-drive location. I have often thought how cool it would be to have a right-hand-drive Vette there ... Never thought I'd see one.

May 17, 2018 | 07:59 AM

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Looking at that picture gives me a weird feeling. May hurt my eyes if I look at it too long.

May 17, 2018 | 08:06 AM

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Pretty cool !!!

May 17, 2018 | 10:16 AM

JK 23112

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Seems as though driving it would be almost like learning to walk all over again. You might think it would not be much different until you tried to make your first left turn.

Still, I am happy that someone has found a way to fill a niche market like that. I have no doubt that some folks "down under" would love to have a C7 that would be "legal" to drive there.

May 17, 2018 | 10:17 AM

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Does it have 7 speeds reverse and one forward?

May 17, 2018 | 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JK 23112

Having done many business trips to the UK and in Japan, and renting cars, it's certainly weird for the 1st hour or so. However, you adapt very quickly.

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May 17, 2018 | 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JK 23112

Seems as though driving it would be almost like learning to walk all over again. You might think it would not be much different until you tried to make your first left turn..

A few years ago I drove more miles in England that year than I did in the US. You've got two major issues. One is muscle memory and the other is the mental differences of driving on the left. I met a guy at the British Museum who told me to "think like I had an outrigger off to the left." That worked well and "allowed" wide left turns. It pretty well solved the muscle memory issues so I no longer drove on the curb, err, I mean kerb. When I again visited England a couple of years later mu muscle memory of driving on the left was still there and did not present a problem, but Oh, the roundabouts!

You have not fully lived until you have driven through the triple roundabout with buildings in the middle of them in Portsmouth, England, each one with five or six exits. One roundabout leads to a second roundabout which leads to a third roundabout, and it is the only way out of town. Wow.

Last edited by mschuyler; May 17, 2018 at 12:47 PM.