LHD FC

Smooth customs · Post by **Smooth customs** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:51 pm

Several years ago I converted an FC ute to LHD for a mate
As well as doing other mechanical conversions, and small detail work.

He drove it everywhere for a few years and then sold it.

Have just found out the current owner, has had the ute converted back to RHD

Post by **Blacky** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:55 pm

Cool , I remember there was heaps of discussion on the FE/C forum about that one after its debut , how the hell did you get the gear linkages to work ?????

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:56 pm

WTF would you do that for (convert it back that is), after buying a unique car and then make it just like every other ute

, Trev

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Smooth customs · Post by **Smooth customs** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:11 pm

Blacky
I set it up with a red motor and auto, made a transfer rod at the back of the bellhousing. Just like Holden did with some of its models.

The same can be done with a manual, just a little more work.

Trev
Its their car to do with as they please, just like the rest of us.

Was originally from NSW. It is now in Queensland.

Imagine selling it to a Holden lover in the States when it was LHD, would have had people spinning at events over there.

Dave Jackson · Post by **Dave Jackson** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:25 pm

Smooth customs wrote:..Trev
Its their car to do with as they please, just like the rest of us.

..Imagine selling it to a Holden lover in the States when it was LHD, would have had people spinning at events over there.

You illustrated his point here, its just a "why would you" situation.

Excellent work on the conversion, always nice to find your own handiwork later on down the track. Still useful

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:28 pm

yeah i can't understand the converting it back

must be really hard to get a ute if you've got to go to those lengths

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:34 pm

Got me beat why someone would convert it back to RHD after all the time and expense that went into the LHD conversion.

Why didn't he leave it as is and go and buy another ute in RHD??

RHD utes do exist.

Yeah I know, its his car, his money etc etc etc..................

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:27 pm

FB MAD wrote:Got me beat why someone would convert it back to RHD after all the time and expense that went into the LHD conversion.

Why didn't he leave it as is and go and buy another ute in RHD??

RHD utes do exist.

Yeah I know, its his car, his money etc etc etc..................

What he said

ret · Post by **ret** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:29 am

FB MAD wrote:Got me beat why someone would convert it back to RHD after all the time and expense that went into the LHD conversion.

Why didn't he leave it as is and go and buy another ute in RHD??

RHD utes do exist.

Yeah I know, its his car, his money etc etc etc..................

There's always two sides to every story. The current owner moved interstate, and the authorities would not register it in its LHD form. The owner's choices? Lose money selling it, or spend money converting it back. Not an easy decision: glad I didn't have to make it.

cheers
RET

Smooth customs · Post by **Smooth customs** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:45 pm

Possibly could be three sides to this story

The ute was engineered and registered in NSW.
Was sold to the new owner, who I take changed the ownership over in NSW.
Then some months later moved to Queensland.

I dont know what happened then , as QLD should have accepted the engineers report and NSW registration departments acceptance of the report. Where it had been taking the money and alowing it to be driven on the roads for those years.
It travelled thousands of miles up and down the East Coast, and into QLD many times. And as far as I am aware was not once pulled over by the Police or Machinery department to check its legality.

As far as loosing money on the sale, An add on E Bay in the US may have found it a new home and at a price better than the current owner paid for it. Or even someone else in Australia that wanted a one of a kind FC.

For me personally, Im dissapointed. All that work to produce something that had all the experts, questioning if it was a factory proto type, or it had some secret past that no one was aware of.

And now its just like a lot of other FC's.

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:57 pm

I see the second side to the story now RET but still can't get around the idea to undo all the work and money that went into the RHD to LHD.

I guess like you said, he had to choose what to do.I would have took a different path to the one the owner picked if it were mine, there again, I wouldn't convert RHD to LHD in a RHD country anyway.

That said,

Ain't mine, is his, he chose,his money, all history!!

Done