Cool. It's perfectly legal to own and drive a righthand drive vehicle.

[Swede]

Is the brake and drive pedals reversed also? It would be fun driving one.

[pintobean]

1. When I was a kid

a friend of my brother had one. A Ford Fairlane. For kicks, he'd have his sister drive, and he would sit in the front passenger seat with a bucket over his head.

[LeftyMom]

2. Somebody had a right hand drive Prius for sale here recently.

It was a '98 or something like that, from Japan before they started selling a US version. Imported right hand drive vehicles are street legal as long as they pass all the safety inspections.

And old postal jeeps were right hand drive, so the mail carrier could just tool along down country roads and lean out at each mailbox.

[LostinVA]

7. They still have the right hand postal Jeeps/pickups in parts of NJ and VA

[LeftyMom]

9. They sold them all off here mid-nineties.

At Cal Worthington. No word on whether his dog spot was involved (weird california thing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGEYCsvPJzw&feature=related

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. In Japan, tollbooths have tolls on both sides of the cars, for those who drive American style.

You'd be really fucked in the US with a righthand car, unless you stayed out of places with tolls (or went all electronic toll).

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. The pedals are the same

Though that may depend on the type of car. :shrug:

I was with a group that drove cars onto the auction block for the Christie's auction at the Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance in 1996. One of the cars I drove was a '36 MG with right-hand drive, a bad clutch and no knob on the shifter. It was pretty weird shifting with my left hand, but at least I didn't have to clutch with my right foot and hit the brake and accelerator with my left. :)

[Swede]

6. The pedals being the same would probably save my life if I was to drive it.

Not hitting the brake pedal in a moment of panic would be a bad thing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. When I switched from British right hand drive to US left - with a stick

what felt weird for me was having to steer with just my left hand while I was changing gear. I felt I wanted the precision (being right handed) for the steering, not the change.

[no name no slogan]

5. It takes a while to get used to it

If it's a manual, the stick is on your left side (of course).

I used to drive on occasion when I lived in the UK (where they drive on the left, and most cars are right-hand drive). It took a few hours to get used to it, but eventually I got it sussed. The only problem I had was that I kept on looking up and to the right to check the rear view mirror. :P

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. I found it surprisingly easy to learn how to drive in the UK.

There was an old "legacy" car that was passed around on base from Airman to Airman, and I put my bid in and got possession of it for a year or so. It was an old four-on-the-floor stick shift Morris Minor 1000cc, and it only took a few minutes to figure out shifting with my left hand instead of the right. Thankfully the pedals were arranged the same, but I've never figured out why they chose to do that. All right hand drive vehicles are the same as far as I know.

It was a great old beast of a car (it could get up to speed eventually- faster if you found a nice tall hill to take off from). The oddest thing about it was it had a positive-ground electrical system. I bought a cheap cassette player for it and had to wire it in backwards to get it to work.

It actually felt like it took me longer to come home and get used to driving on the "correct" side of the road again- I was somewhat forced into it when my mom and dad made me drive home from the airport. Very spooky feeling....