If its RH steer, it'll have been converted. Granted, we can all do
what we like with our cars but doing a conversion like this, IMHO
creates a hybrid that never existed and is neither one thing or the
other. In any case, driving a LH steer car on UK roads is no problem -
you just have to be a bit more careful when it comes to overtaking. I
saw another converted 250 about two weeks ago, masquerading as a TR5,
except this one had a (mostly) Bosch injection set up. Felt sorry for
the owner. He'd only just bought the car from a dealer who'd given him
a lot of of bull* about Standard Triumph doing a limited number of
TR250's with injection and with RH steer. ISTR he said he'd paid about
12000 quid ($18000?) for this 'thing' and he thought he'd got a good
deal!!!!! I just hadn't got the heart to tell him he'd been shafted.
It upsets and annoys me when I meet people who have been 'tucked up'
by an unprincipled seller - though if they've got money burning a hole
in their pocket and they don't bother to check a car's progeny with a
club beforehand, I suppose they've got only themselves to blame. Let's
keep TR250's as they were made. LH steer, US spec and strombergs. A
fabulous car as it was - and no-one needs to change them. If I had an
anglicised one, I'd put it back to what it was - but I'd sell my
grandmother for a TR5.
Jonmac
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