Left hand drive conversion

Post by **m.hunter** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:44 pm

Hello all, another daft question !

I wonder if anyone can help, I`ve finished the RHD to LHD conversion ( we live in Germany and don`t want to have any problems OVERTAKING German cars!

) without any real problems at all.

Everything is fine apart from....... the door can now only be opened from the - now, passenger side. This, is very annoying !

Where can I get a 4 door passenger side outer door handle or, how do I change it over? My wife refuses to drive it untill it has been done properly

Many thanks for any advice

Post by **bigginger** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:53 pm

I'm not sure that they were ever made, but somebody is bound to know better

A famous oversight by the makers, given that a large part of the output was for export...

Post by **Orkney** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:19 pm

Yes BG - but in those days of political incorrectness they'd have been saying 'serves em right for driving on teh wrong side of the road'

Take it then that the door mechanisms are handed - and are they model specific?

Post by **overider** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:22 pm

You could try E-Bay.com instead of .co.uk you might get a left had side driver door. If a door isn’t on the e-bay.com, you could ask a seller the question.

Post by **bigginger** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:39 pm

bigginger wrote:I'm not sure that they were ever made

I wasn't joking, I'm not sure that the left door ever had a lock, whatever side of the road the car was to be driven on.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:57 am

Did the LCV LH doors ever have an external lock?

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:09 pm

Not IME
a

Post by **aupickup** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:25 pm

i have had one left hand drivers ex door handle with a lock, so yes they did make them

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:36 pm

I've heard that they exist, just never seen one

Post by **RussLCV** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:35 pm

Lots used in Scandinavia, I obtained that way and later vans to the USA

Post by **Sidney'61** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:31 pm

bigginger wrote:I wasn't joking, I'm not sure that the left door ever had a lock, whatever side of the road the car was to be driven on.

As far as I'm aware the cars built after 1964 had a passenger side external lock, so they did make them.

Post by **RogerRust** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:44 am

THere is a lefthand door handle with lock amonst all this junk

1 x passenger door handle with key no. 925

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Morris-Minor-brig ... dZViewItem

But it is probably a two door/traveller one

Post by **Bluesman** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:40 am

On our 1960 2-door, the left door is the non-lock version too. This car was a regular LHD export car from the factory, sold by a Swedish dealer/representative.

Strange and irritating, but yet another engineering/production economy "feature" to refer to as "charming", I guess.

Cheers /Richard