Nearside, offside

[LEN_LEEB@domain.elided]

John wrote:
...The other part of the story is that the export models were marked "Offside 
Undo", as distinct from the home-market "Nearside Undo", and the common 
presence of both Nearside and Offside hubcaps on the same car suggested that 
British assembly-lime workers were just as haphazard (or inebriated) as other 
nationalities.

Well, I learn something new every day. Having spent (misspent?) much of my 
youth around British cars, I had always thought that "nearside" and "offside" 
had something to do with driver's or passenger's sides of the car. Now I come 
to find out they only represent the fact that Trevor pulled parts as 
haphazardly as did Luigi! 
Len

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