Re: RHD Scouts

[nickl@domain.elided (Nick Leiterman)]

I have seen a few of these right hand drive postal scouts, three of
them in junk yards and 4 or 5 in the parking lot of the maple valley
Washington post office (about 5 years ago).  All of them were scout
800s with 196 and automatic trannys.  also all of them were two wheel
drive.

On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 21:11:56 -0800, you wrote:

>ihc-digest wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:59:15 -0500
>> From: Tom and Amanda Lang <rustnrot@domain.elided>
>> Subject: Two Questions for Our Australian Cousins
>> 
>> On the subject of RHD Scouts (of which most of our readers know I am
>> converting to front-disks on my '72 at a glacial pace).  Anyway, the Scout
>> Gold Portfolio (a an excellent book of days-gone-by Scout Road Tests, some
>> of which were were authored by Australian writers), got me thinking *why*
>> LHD cars are illegal in Australia and RHD ones are *not* illegal in North
>> America, where certainly here traffic must be much worse.  Does the law
>> hark back to the days when Australia was a British colony and it was a way
>> to "insure" vehicles were bought from the "mother country"--way back before
>> the Japanese built cars (which I'm sure you all know are RHD for their
>> country)?
>> Thanks, and what's the second question?  Oh yea, is it *really* true in the
>> Southern Hemisphere that water goes down a drain in a counter-clockwise
>> direction?? (add Andy Rooney voice inflection)
>
>
>Can't say about the RHD thing(every state is different making it
>obligatoryin a different year).Some states allow it if you can prove it
>was previously registered LHD there....
>
>The drain?Well,I just checked,and NOPE! Of course,YMMV.
>
>JED
>
>> Subject: Re: Post Office Scouts
>> >
>> >
>> There were 6745 RHD's built for the US Post Office in 1967, so they once
>> weren't rare.  30 years later, I'd be surprised if 10% of those still
>> exist.  But RHD was also an option for the Scout II's and I think it may
>> have been available on some 80/800's, so there are more of them out there
>> somewhere, but I don't have any numbers.
>> 
>> Howard Pletcher
>> Howteron Products Scout Parts
>
>Thanks,JED.

Nick Leiterman
Kent, Washington
nickl@domain.elided