RHD production

[pete.birtles]

Hi, I’m new to this forum, but far from new to the old car world & particularly vintage mopar. I’ve recently acquired this 1936 C7 Chrysler Airstream here in the UK 🇬🇧, the car is RHD & believed to be originally from South Africa. I’ve not had much luck in finding production figures for RHD models, can anyone help?

[keiser31]

Gorgeous car!

[maok]

It's probably a Kew Gardens UK built model. Some unusual body styles were made there.

 

See pics.

[maok]

Just curious, does yours have bucket seats?

 

Another one of the Airstream.

[pete.birtles]

No, bench seat with split rear & standard dickie seat in the trunk. Definitely not a Kew built car, they were generally Plymouth’s with different trim & badged as Chrysler.

[lozrocks]

I've never seen production figures for South Africa.

The C7 was indeed also manufactured in South Africa, but I was under the impression only sedans were built. Many cars found there way overseas in the late 1980s.

Your roadster sure looks nice!

[1939_Buick]

https://www.allpar.com/threads/chrysler-of-south-africa-from-1910-maxwell-to-2017-jeep.229673/

 

Argentina was RH Drive (left hand traffic) until 1945.  Are some ex Argentina cars in my part of the world

Sweden changed 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic

Edited November 26, 2022 by 1939_Buick (see edit history)

[Bloo]

Sweden may be a bad example. Most if not all Swedish cars had the steering wheel on the left before the 1967 change. There were a lot of left hand drive American cars in Sweden at that time as well. A Swedish friend told me it was utter chaos on the day the change was made.

 

 

 

 

[8E45E]

On 11/26/2022 at 2:10 AM, Bloo said:

Sweden may be a bad example. Most if not all Swedish cars had the steering wheel on the left before the 1967 change. There were a lot of left hand drive American cars in Sweden at that time as well. A Swedish friend told me it was utter chaos on the day the change was made.

I read, https://moneyweek.com/335527/3-september-1967-sweden-switches-to-driving-on-right-hand-side-of-the-road      and heard from those who lived in Sweden at the time, when 'Dagen-H' as it was known, it was done early on a Sunday morning, and was not overly chaotic as some imagined.

 

Craig