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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 03:23 AM
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A friend of mine told me that he saw a silver/red S2000 with right-hand drive (like British and Japanese use) at lunch time in the Pinellas Park area.

Does anybody here know any more about this car?
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 04:19 AM
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I live in the Largo /PP area and have not seen this ride as of yet. That would be one expensive car given the port and shipping charges. But a true JDM would be a jewel on the show circuit.
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 05:07 AM
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Someone on Tamparacing.com also saw this car.. said it was orange. Same part of town.
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 05:42 AM
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Silver Vs. Orange?? maybe there are two cars or the guy recently had it painted but one source saying it was silver and another saying it was orange seems wierd. it would be hard to confuse the two.

It would be neat to have a right handed driver but how difficult would it be to to get used to driving it. I see decommisioned mail jeeps all the time and i always wonder how odd it would be to drive right handed like that I could never shift well using my left hand = yuk everything would be a$$backwards

If there are two two EDM or JDM S's in town I would love the chance to look them over - so if you are out there....come to the Skyway meet!!
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 06:07 AM
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I also read that tamparacing post about the orange one, im in the PP area and have yet to see either.
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by PrimoGen,Jan 7 2005, 09:42 AM
It would be neat to have a right handed driver but how difficult would it be to to get used to driving it. I see decommisioned mail jeeps all the time and i always wonder how odd it would be to drive right handed like that I could never shift well using my left hand = yuk everything would be a$$backwards
I bet it would just take a little getting-used-to and then it wouldn't be so bad. I'd be willing to give it a shot.
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 08:52 AM
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I guess some of us will be peeking in the windows of any S2000s we see parked in mid-Pinellas for awhile.
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 09:20 AM
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The orange one should stick out like a sore thumb. I want to say I have seen this car and it resembles the Imola Orange color the Z's have. I may have been mistaken but I have seen a couple of odd color S's lately.
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Old Jan 7, 2005 | 08:12 PM
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We drive a rhd car in the BVI, didn't take long to get use to. Man, that'd be a cool car to have. I only drove the rhd car for one day, but it wasn't that bad. I can use both my right and left hands when I need to.
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Old Jan 8, 2005 | 05:08 AM
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I drove one in Ireland for a week. Kept going to the wrong side of the car to get in.
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