How on earth to start this? I've been car/bike/truck crazy since I was a teen. Like John, I had the obligatory Countach poster on the wall.
I guess I'm more officially into classic and muscle cars than anything else - I currently have a '65 Sunbeam Tiger that left the factory the same day as I left the hospital as a newborn with my mother. How could I not buy that car?
In 2016 my wife and I drove across the USA in a brand-new Dodge Challenger, and then shipped it home. We did this again in 2019 in a 1990 Chev Corvette - you can read about that trip on DriveLife, and again in 2023 buying a C5 Corvette and shipping it home.
I'm a driving instructor and an Observer for the Institute of Advanced Motorists - trying to do my bit to make our roads safer.
Yep – agree with all of that. Having spent years in the US (have probably driven 100,000km in LHD cars) you get very used to the gear changing and everything else. My biggest nightmare with them is the indicators – on some of my LHD cars they’re opposite to the RHD version, and on others the manufacturer appears to have merely picked up the steering column and swapped it to the other side, leaving the indicators on the same side as they were. There’s no consistent pattern. I will add though that parallel parking I find to be easier in the LHD because you’re right there on the edge and can see better.