RHD 914, what's value of a rhd 914 Options

[9146-racer]

Hi, I haven't been on here for ages, sorry to have missed you all.
I have just been reading an article on the RHD Crayford cars and really would appreciate a value for one.
My car is a 1969 Crayford, in fact I understand it to be the first one ever.

I've owned it for about 30 years and now am considering parting with it, but what's it worth?

[Arno914]

Thank you for sharing all of this information, wonkipop! Very interesting to read! In Japan many imports drive around as LHD, as it is sort of "cool" to have the steering wheel on the "wrong" side. When visiting Tokyo I have seen many LHD Mercedes and BMW´s. I think, there is so much traffic, they never intend to take over annother car anyways. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Is it illegal to drive a LHD car in down under? Is RHD mandatory on all cars?
For example, here in Germany you can drive a RHD car if you wish to do so. It is not illegal.
Cheers, Arno

[wonkipop]

Thank you for sharing all of this information, wonkipop! Very interesting to read! In Japan many imports drive around as LHD, as it is sort of "cool" to have the steering wheel on the "wrong" side. When visiting Tokyo I have seen many LHD Mercedes and BMW´s. I think, there is so much traffic, they never intend to take over annother car anyways. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Is it illegal to drive a LHD car in down under? Is RHD mandatory on all cars?
For example, here in Germany you can drive a RHD car if you wish to do so. It is not illegal.
Cheers, Arno

it was not possible to register a left hand drive car in aus until sometime after the end of 20th century. i can't remember the exact date arno, i was distracted by life when that happened. but basically they introduced historic vehicle club registration which allowed for special interest vehicles to be registered left hand drive. they have to be certain age, over 25 years old.

before that happened there was only regular road registration.
which is what happened to me back in the early 90s.
no alternative but to convert.

if only i had had a crystal ball.
but on the other hand with all the SUVs on the road now and trying to peer through them with x ray vision i was not born with, its kind of ok to be rhd. i can drive the 914 nice and hard on windy country roads and get around the bloated silver or black monstrosities that hog the road in front of me (though its a bit nerve wracking extracting enough power out of the wimpy 1.8).

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its true there has always been a perverse snob thing in J with LHD cars.
but at the same time there is/or was a bigger market for J drivers who do more than cruise around tokyo at 15 mph pretending to be french.
i've been there and i have seen some kamikazi stuff go on - motor cycle riders at dawn, even through the streets of traditional districts like yanuka in the middle of old tokyo - right on the white line down the middle of the road at unbelievable speed. they all are so constricted by polite behaviour, but when they unleash....... who knows what happens up in the country side. there are some japanese who like to drive real fast. back in the 80s they used to ship their cars out to aus to drive in the northern territory as fast as you could do when we had unrestricted speed limits there. thats all by the wayside now. you want a rhd car for that sort of business.