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MG MGA - RHD steering rack

On Ebay, Item number: 290244565758, a second hand steering rack. A bit pricey, at over a £1000.00 or did they make a gold plated verion?

Ross
R W McIntosh

That brings up a question from me. Over here a righthand steer car is unusuall but legal. Do you have to change to lefthand to be legal?
R J Brown

RJ, legal here too, but dangerous!
Neil McGurk

The latest US Moss catalogue (Fall/Winter 2008) Page A30, lists a new rack and pinion assy. PN 263-100 for $229.95 (LHD only)
Looks cheap to me!
Mike
Mike Ellsmore (1)

Cars with left hand drive are legal in my right hand drive State (New South Wales) in Australia if they are 30 years old, or more.
The main requirement to make them legal is that the the headlights on low beam must be changed to dip down and away to the left (the edge of the road).


Mick
Mick Anderson

The 'but dangerous' that Neil refers to is especially so for the left hand drive artic lorries that travel to the UK from Europe. Many of them cannot see the low down sports cars coming past them and pull out into them. There was one such notable accident on the approaches to the Dover docks during the 2005 MGA Le Mans reactment when one of our MGAs was side swiped by a Polish lorry. Massive damage down the left side of the car and it ended up in a ditch. He missed the ferry but caught the next one. Says something for the strength of the MGA Chassis.

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve, I actually refer to the fact that it is more dangerous if you are overtaking with a LHD car in LH traffic as you cannot easily see round the car in front.
Neil McGurk

Looks like the two I sold last year were cheap, but I was very glad to do it over the BBS and sell to enthusiasts rather than let the dealers gouge someone.
dominic clancy

This thread was discussed between 11/08/2008 and 12/08/2008

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