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« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2012, 10:02:13 PM »

Congratulations on your new purchase Steve, I would have been interested but the steering wheel is on the wrong side Huh

Albert, I don't suppose you could find a such car with the steering wheel on the right side so I could buy it Grin
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« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2012, 10:22:12 PM »

There is a nice green one with the steering wheel on the right side Wink
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2012, 02:03:46 PM »

Hello Everyone,

thank you all for the great welcome to the forum  Smiley  I've been following the forum for a while now as a guest, saving my pennies ready to buy a 131 Sport again.

I've got some old photos of some of my 131s in the past so I'll post them when I get a moment.

Albert gave me the registration date of my new one which makes it a "W reg" in the UK.  It's great that some people on the forum already know the car, I'd love any history that anyone has.

I'm sure I'll get used to LHD in the UK, eventually  Grin

Hi Duncan - yes please, a lift to Holland would be great.

Does anyone have a UK speedo and UK outer headlights for sale?  I think if memory serves the speedo in the sport reads higher than the 131 super making it unique to the sport but I could be mistaken  Huh

Thank you all again and looking forward to meeting you and "getting into" 131s again,

Best regards, Steve

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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2012, 02:46:28 PM »

I've been driving LHD 131s for 6 years now (35000 kms in that time) and you definitely get used to it Steve. You just hang back a little more for overtakes which gives you more time to gun the throttle and listen to that TC.   Wink

Just be prepared for the chuckles as you repeatedly go to drive away using the passenger door!  Grin

The series 2 RHD Super speedo is marked to 120mph while the Sport is calibrated to 140mph. I think that's it as far as differences go. It's hard enough to find new outside RHD Sport lights - I've been looking for some time now.  Sad

Looking forward to the historic 131 pics and don't forget to keep a pictorial blog of the inaugural journey home.  Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2012, 04:54:23 PM »

Hi Steve,

Welcome to the forum and well done for buying such a lovely car! Cool

I purchased both my Abarth (in 2004) and a silver Racing (in 2005) and both still have kmh calibrated speedos despite being annually MoT'd. As long as the speedo is calibrated it doesn't have to be in MPH to pass the MoT.

As for the headlight aim - provided the car has 'sheilds' for the part of the beam pattern that would be thrown in to the path of oncoming cars, again it will pass an MoT. I still have LHD outers fitted to my Abarth but with the tape 'sheilds' and it passes everytime. Might be a quick fix until you can source some RHD outers - although, I seem to remember Theo once telling me that all 131 Sport outers are the same regardless of the market and that the bulb can be repositioned to get the correct beam pattern - perhaps, if he reads this he can confirm.

Welcome again, and I look forward to meeting you and your new ride soon. Wink

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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2012, 05:09:11 PM »

Welcome to the forum Steve Smiley

I would leave the original KM speedo in the 131, I had a classic alfa that went ture all it's UK MOT's with a KM speedo Smiley
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« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2012, 07:16:09 PM »

There is a possibility I have the MPH speedo for you, I will look soon Smiley

Phil, you have to get used to LHD, gives you more possibilities to buy great cars Wink

I also start to get used to RHD Grin


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« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2012, 07:54:27 PM »

There's a Guilietta on ebay UK at the moment same or similar colour. Unfortunately it has rust and is not as nice as the one you have Roll Eyes

I like these too but already have far too many projects Cheesy
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« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2012, 09:07:15 PM »

Albert, as always you have managed to find yet another beautiful car, good to see that the steering wheel is on "the right side"  Grin

I am quite happy driving a LHD car, but I would rather drive a car with a steering wheel that agrees with the country that I live. Maybe you could persuade our Prime Minister that we need to drive on the other side of the road Huh 

 
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« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2012, 09:42:58 PM »

thank you, I didn't realize that you can have a KM speedo and get a UK MOT.  Having said that if you have a MPH speedo Albert I'll be happy to find it a new home  Smiley

Good to know that you get used to LHD when driving on the left.  I've driven LHD before but always overseas on the right hand side of the road...

Nice to know you can get an MOT with headlight masks on

The outer headlight possible fix is interesting and a relief if works, now you menion it I remember having problems with my V reg sport years ago with one of the headlights that appeared to dip the wrong way  Huh

Duncan (member 124AC) and I heated up the bulb and turned the bracked through 180 degrees I think as the bracket in the headlight apeared to be the wrong way round.  Perhaps it was a LHD headlight Huh

I remember that we also had to fit square lights from a 1600 TC super to our friend Matthew's sport as we couldn't get any good outer headlights at the time, no internet back then Wink

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« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2012, 11:30:12 PM »

Albert I do like 70's & 80's alfa's Grin It looks like a very clean giulietta, have you any GTV6's ? 
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« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2012, 09:46:48 AM »

Having the wheel on the "other side" (means drive LHD cars in the UK or RHD cars on the Continent) only has two downsides:

1) entering public garages might be awkward
2) going through McDonald's "McDrive" might also be awkward (but you could enter in reverse to make it more comfortable)  Wink Cool
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« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2012, 10:09:11 AM »

Lucky me I don't like Mc Donalds and I avoid carparks because you always find your car back damaged, so for me RHD is no problem at all Grin
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« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2012, 10:59:01 AM »

With my LHD Super I never go near towns or car parks ( I find cars get most of damage to the bodywork when parked in car parks ) I only drive it on main roads and motorways. The only thing I find that you need is electric windows, for the toll bridge's ! My old S2 1600/TC with no electric windows was a pain at toll's.
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