Guest BJM Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Burgandy '90 Buick Reatta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Rule Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 This isn't right hand drive. All the photos are loaded wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Agree, look at the shifter. Not saying there are not any (had to convert to sell in Oz - any registed there ?) but steering column & brake m/c would need to go through HVAC, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 But this one truly is RHD. Converted and owned by Cliff and Doreen Humphries in New Zealand. I had the pleasure of helping with parts for this car and later visiting with the Humphries in New Zealand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BJM Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 But this one truly is RHD. Converted and owned by Cliff and Doreen Humphries in New Zealand. I had the pleasure of helping with parts for this car and later visiting with the Humphries in New Zealand.I knew the photo was not legit, but wanted to post so one could see what it would look like. Now Jim, The Humphries car is indeed impressive. On a modern car, I don't see how they did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 (edited) If they could change the GTO (Holden) to LHD, they could swap the Reatta to RHD. Would like to know where the master cyl is. Looks like the dash panel is fabriated with headlight switch to left of HVAC and radio (aftermarket) but wipers are in LHD position.Note the knee bloster on the passenger side (is that stock '91 ?) and the passenger mirror/dual window switch. Edited September 19, 2012 by padgett (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDirk Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I'd seen pictures of that RHD 91 before (probably on here) and agree, the quality of the conversion is outstanding. Looks like they had someone with very good plastic fabrication capability do a custom bezel for the IPC pod. All in, this had to be an expensive job to do, especially with the interior swap over. The one thing I notice that might have been done better is relocating the power mirror switch to the passenger (well, drivers side in this case) door panel. But, that is a small issue (and easily forgiven) considering what had to be done to make the car RHD. Now, just think if that RHD 'vert were polo green! Indiana Jones would probably be after it as an artifact of greater rarity than the holy grail. KDirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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