WHY JDM? (1 Viewer)

[crushers]

hold on, let me get this straight.
you KNOW you are putting your wife in danger, your not happy about it, and yet you still drive a RHD ... then why are YOU driving a RHD? this just doesn't make any sense at all.

oh dear god, this again?
I drive a RHD at the moment, and I realize as I'm doing it , that instead of ME being out on the left side where I'm likely to get smoked in a head on, it's my wife.
Maybe youre happy with that arrangement, I'm not thrilled about it.

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Wow we go from discussing RHD Cruisers to "alpha males".
Kinda like watching "Top Gear" on BBC than switching the channel to "Animal Planet". God I love this forum...1978HJ45

 

[seapotato]

hold on, let me get this straight.
you KNOW you are putting your wife in danger, your not happy about it, and yet you still drive a RHD ... then why are YOU driving a RHD? this just doesn't make any sense at all.

hell I'm just glad it was mostly coherent...homebrew cider sneaks up on you...




that statement, is more in response to the " crashes are more surviveable when you're on the right side of the truck" argument which I don't agree with, so was just making a point.

..although maybe not in the most delicate polite way...

but, there's the rub...and exactly what the original poster was talking about...which is why JDM, they're mostly rust free and nicer than the rusty canadian stuff.

I'm driving the truck because nothing like it is available here. I considered doing a 4bt 80, but didn't want a project right now.




First real road trip we did in the 80 after I bought it, narrow windy road up by port alberni, with the sides overgrown so you can't see around corners.

I was as far right as I could get without my mirror bouncing off blackberries, and a truck and camper came flying around the corner, cutting the corner and half in the wrong lane, and came about 2 inches from removing the left side of my truck.

Wouldn't have made a ton of difference if I'd been driving on the left side, but I'd have seen it a half second sooner.

That was the moment where I really started thinking about how the passengers are exposed, and it does go through my mind as I drive, and keeps me in the right lane for the most part.