Re: IML: Changing the Left to Right and ignition switch

[Tom H <tom_in_a2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, good point:  my '69 Fury II had a left-hand
ignition switch, too.

--- Frederick Joslin <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ignition switch comment is very interesting.
> 
> My 69 LeBaron has the ignition switch on the left
> hand side of the
> steering column. The article in Automobile Collector
> magazine which
> covered the fuselage Imperials said that this was to
> protect the knees
> of  "unrestrained" center seat passengers. There is
> also a sealt belt to
> do that.
> 
> The ignition on the left makes it very easy to start
> the car from the
> outside, but difficult from the inside!   
> 
> How many people ride in the center seat of an
> Imperial anyway and why was
> this suddenly important in 1969 and not before?
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Tom H"
>   To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Subject: Re: IML: Changing the Left to Right
>   Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 
>   This has been quite an interesting discussion.
>   Actually I always thought the right-hand threads
> were
>   just one of those little eccentricities of Mopars
>   (apart from the engineering rationale), kind of
> like
>   how Ford used to have the ignition switch on the
> left
>   of the steering column.
> 
>   --- Frederick Joslin wrote:
> 
>   > Hi Nigel:
>   >
>   > Disagreeing is fine.
>   >
>   > I know why Chrysler used left hand threads on
> the
>   > driver's side. I was
>   > not aware of other makes that did, but most of
> my
>   > knowledge is 60's and
>   > 70's American vehicles. I grew up in England in
> the
>   > 60's but do not know
>   > much about the cars.
>   >
>   > I just think that history has shown that it was
> not
>   > necessary to use left
>   > handed thread lug nuts. I would guess that the
> left
>   > hand threads have
>   > caused more problems than they "might" have
> solved.
>   >
>   > If I was an automotive engineer in the position
> of
>   > choosing whether to
>   > use left hand threaded lug nuts you would have
> to
>   > really prove to me that
>   > the right handed ones did not work. I lived in
> St
>   > Louis for ten years in
>   > the "Show Me State" and you would have to show
> me. :)
>   >
>   > Thanks.
>   >
> 
> 
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