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mikeC

I do like this, but have neither the space nor the funds ...

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C817497
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22832 Location: UK

That's a very cool thing - but £3k?

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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2144 Location: East Yorkshire

Have you seen the price of large scale models these days?

Many decades ago, a work colleague tried to get me to swap my then-nearly-new Austin Healey Sprite, for his much older [even then] Riley Pathfinder.

We did exchange motors for a few weeks, just to see how we got on with the other's car....

Needless to say, the idea fell through...he struggled to get behind the wheel of the Sprite...!

mikeC · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 4:56 pm Post subject:

You could park it in the Green Giant, Rick; it would be a bit cheaper than an Alfa!
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Peter_L · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:36 pm Post subject:

Am I right in thinking that this not a modern model, but a piece of motoring history ? The difference may justify the price.

What if Mr John Doe buys a house and find inside (for example) an original pre production prototype model of a Jaguar G type. Something that was produced in secret and hidden away, never documented and never seen except by a few who worked on it ? How much would it be worth ... ?

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lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans

Excuse my lack of brain power, but do I remember correctly that the gear lever was on the right next to the door in a Pathfinder? I only ever remember seeing one in my youth, and that was at Meonstoke.

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

A better piece of engineering than a column change but can be confusing when it gets up your trouser leg as you settle into the driver's seat.

Peter Wink

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mikeC · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:41 am Post subject:

Remarkably, they even re-engineered it so that it was on the left-hand side on left-hand drive cars! I hadn't even realised they made a left-hand drive version, but one was on sale on ebay a few months ago.
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I seem to remember that the reason was so that they could have a sports type, short throw, lever with a bench seat.
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47Jag · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:00 pm Post subject:

Mike,

In 1964 shortly after arriving in Canada I bought a '56 Morris Isis which had a left hand gearchange. I made the transition of driving on the 'wrong side' a whole lot easier in that I didn't have to also learn to change gears with my right hand.

Art

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Peter_L · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:14 pm Post subject: