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Is RHD conversion necessary in Australia?

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Is RHD conversion necessary in Australia?

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That depends – on your view of originality, how often you want to drive the car, where you live and the model, year and value of your Cadillac. Some purists would argue that as these cars were never built factory RHD (post war) a conversion removes a substantial component of vehicle originality and therefore should be avoided. To balance this is the fact that conversion to RHD prior to sale was a standard modification in Australia. Realistically, the car is still a Cadillac provided the RHD conversion is done well. Regarding driving a LHD vehicle, in my experience you do adjust to driving from the left and after a relatively short time think little of it. However, there are situations requiring greater care. Most notably, merging to the right where traffic is generally moving faster i.e. motorway on-ramps, letting front seat passengers out (on the traffic side), and on a lighter note – toll booths. On balance and over some 3000 miles of Sydney driving I had very few problems. The model

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