Re: IML: Changing the Left to Right and ignition switch

["Frederick Joslin" <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx>]

The ignition switch comment is very interesting.

My 69 LeBaron has the ignition switch on the left hand side of the steering column. The article in Automobile Collector magazine which covered the fuselage Imperials said that this was to protect the knees of  "unrestrained" center seat passengers. There is also a sealt belt to do that.

The ignition on the left makes it very easy to start the car from the outside, but difficult from the inside!   

How many people ride in the center seat of an Imperial anyway and why was this suddenly important in 1969 and not before?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom H"
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: Changing the Left to Right
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:54:55 -0700 (PDT)


This has been quite an interesting discussion.
Actually I always thought the right-hand threads were
just one of those little eccentricities of Mopars
(apart from the engineering rationale), kind of like
how Ford used to have the ignition switch on the left
of the steering column.

--- Frederick Joslin wrote:

> Hi Nigel:
>
> Disagreeing is fine.
>
> I know why Chrysler used left hand threads on the
> driver's side. I was
> not aware of other makes that did, but most of my
> knowledge is 60's and
> 70's American vehicles. I grew up in England in the
> 60's but do not know
> much about the cars.
>
> I just think that history has shown that it was not
> necessary to use left
> handed thread lug nuts. I would guess that the left
> hand threads have
> caused more problems than they "might" have solved.
>
> If I was an automotive engineer in the position of
> choosing whether to
> use left hand threaded lug nuts you would have to
> really prove to me that
> the right handed ones did not work. I lived in St
> Louis for ten years in
> the "Show Me State" and you would have to show me. :)
>
> Thanks.
>


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