john hogan's r/h roadster p2 


This is a really great series of pictures, with more to come - A right hand drive '65 convert. 

 

 

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Picture No.1  This is as we brought it home, left-hook and lots to do.
No. 2. Part way through the conversion, I moved the master cylinder over to make it mirror reverse under the hood. Those bronze pieces we only used as a template as they were too heavy and we made our own pieces up out of sheet metal, took about 3 weeks to make.
No. 3. The white box section is engineer approved double row chain drive, fits onto the rag joint on the steering box and has a uni joint on column side for swingaway wheel. This setup allows the use of original steering and suspension parts and retain original steering geometry.
Outer steering column has to be cut so as swingaway mechanism is underneath to let it slide to the left.

 

No.4.  The finished product, the wheel in swingaway position you can see by the odometer and 0 to 120 that it is not a reversed negative.
 
No.5. Wheel in the normal driving position, for me anyway.
No.6. Overall view of the dash.

 

Picture of the old driver's side
 
View of right-hand driver's side
 
And me after submitting flight plan and getting ready to Thunderbird.