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Re: How many RHD Mopars were made?
[Re: 71TA]
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09/19/12 01:17 PM
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Gasket customer was looking for RHD E body gaskets. My wife was dealing with him. Think she said he said it was an Australian car.
What gaskets would be right RHD specific ?? 
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Re: How many RHD Mopars were made?
[Re: 62maxwgn]
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09/19/12 04:48 PM
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Gasket customer was looking for RHD E body gaskets. My wife was dealing with him. Think she said he said it was an Australian car.
What gaskets would be right RHD specific ??
The Australian cars had thier own heater boxes and what not...I have a couple out in the back I could dig out if you were curious, were different ones though depending on the model of car.
Jim...I've never heard of one, maybe someone else has ? 
They never got RHD E bodies in Australia though.
As I mentioned, I would guess it's just a converted car. The mirror conversions done can be pretty good. (They have gotten much better than they used to be.)
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Re: How many RHD Mopars were made?
[Re: OzHemi]
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09/19/12 06:19 PM
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Gasket customer was looking for RHD E body gaskets. My wife was dealing with him. Think she said he said it was an Australian car.
What gaskets would be right RHD specific ??
The Australian cars had thier own heater boxes and what not...I have a couple out in the back I could dig out if you were curious, were different ones though depending on the model of car.
Jim...I've never heard of one, maybe someone else has ?
They never got RHD E bodies in Australia though.
As I mentioned, I would guess it's just a converted car. The mirror conversions done can be pretty good. (They have gotten much better than they used to be.)
There was a magazine article sometime back that detailed some of the converted RHD E bodies done "down under", Black and white article, IIRC it was in Popular Hotrodding (PHR) back in the early 80's, the shop owner also had a 73/4 Charger RHD with a Daytona wing grafted on,...regarding the article, it focused on how the cars (E body) were converted, pretty informitive article, lots of pics, the guy have custom molds for making a RHD dash and floor console, the article also covered the steering/brake and pedal swap.....I might still have the pages saved in my files, I'll post if I do
Mike
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Re: How many RHD Mopars were made?
[Re: moparmike1]
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09/19/12 08:02 PM
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The way they used to do it.. (A friend of mine has the very first 1968 Charger ever sent to Oz actually, and was the first converted one..) was to just chop up the original dash and just chop and glue, bondo, etc until the got the look they liked, then skin the original chopped up one in vinyl to get the grain in the fiberglass mold. Then just flop them out of the mold, clean them up, and paint.  I've seen it done in person numerous times on Chevy trucks as we did hundreds of RHD conversions on them. The modern way, yet higher price of course is the way the new Camaro we did was done. The original dash is scanned by computer, flipped, then a 3d model is carved out of like styrafoam and the fiberglass mold is done from there. I know a guy who does full volume conversions on new Ford trucks and he ended up going all out and having an OE style plastic dash made in RHD for them which is about the ultimate way to go.. All the steel plates under the dash and for firewall are of course cut out and welded in place.
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Re: How many RHD Mopars were made?
[Re: OzHemi]
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09/19/12 08:11 PM
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Oh, and as for steering....alot of them used to get Falcon steering boxes (especially for power steering cars) That is what the RHD converted Daytona onebad has, has in it. Now a days alot of guys too just convert to rack and pinion at the same time as well. FWIW, here is the engine bay showing the brakes moved over on a Satellite convertible a buddy owns..this car went to Oz in the early 80's from memory and was converted back then.  And while I have the pics handy..  here was a truck I had over here for a while. '72 Chevy C10 step side...we had shipped it to Oz, got converted, sold, taken back in trade, and we shipped it back here for the heck of it. 
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Re: How many RHD Mopars were made?
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09/19/12 08:19 PM
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The way they used to do it.. (A friend of mine has the very first 1968 Charger ever sent to Oz actually, and was the first converted one..) was to just chop up the original dash and just chop and glue, bondo, etc until the got the look they liked, then skin the original chopped up one in vinyl to get the grain in the fiberglass mold.
Then just flop them out of the mold, clean them up, and paint.
I've seen it done in person numerous times on Chevy trucks as we did hundreds of RHD conversions on them.
The modern way, yet higher price of course is the way the new Camaro we did was done. The original dash is scanned by computer, flipped, then a 3d model is carved out of like styrafoam and the fiberglass mold is done from there.
I know a guy who does full volume conversions on new Ford trucks and he ended up going all out and having an OE style plastic dash made in RHD for them which is about the ultimate way to go..
All the steel plates under the dash and for firewall are of course cut out and welded in place.
Thanks for explaining!
So, Ford doesn't sell new F150s in Australia? I always thought Ford was dominant there.
Mike.
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