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[Merv]

I have also never seen a raised lip on a LHD car. They are all flat holes cut in the dash. Even conversions to RHD rarely attend to this distinctive feature.

[Stormin]

Roy,

I've not seen or heard of a raised leftie.
I suspect the right hand drive panel came later and engineering or technology intervened.
I like the raised panel effect.

Norm

[roy mawbey]

Merv,

A good question there, I always have thought both 356A cars L/h and R/h drive had a raised lip around the instruments the same as my RHD.
I looked through a lot of photo's on this thread and its strange some looked the same as mine with LHD but some looked flat. Speedster's also looked flat with no lip.

Some though were harder to say yes or no. The photograph possibly with the wrong light value tends to make them seem flat??

I attach 2 photo's maybe someone with a left hand drive 'A' could advise. Looked at many LHD cars and never took much notice but I bet the lip is there the same as mine. It would not look correct being flat.





Roy

[Merv]

What is the rationale behind the LHD/RHD difference in that the RHD models have raised lip behind the Tacho/Speedo?

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[Merv]

Mine is sadly quite domestic and boring

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