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Originally Posted by DAVES
Teasing BUT, as far as the UK, of course they are confused. They drive on the left side of the road and think that is right. They invented the inch, the foot and the yard. They went metric and left us holding the foot. Heck I had a British car and you needed three sets of tools to work on it whitworth, metric and sae. You had to work on it. I brought it into a repair shop and the mechanic when he saw what it was, refused to work on it.
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Had the same experience (though the specific auto I am thinking of was from N. Ireland). I took my cars to Fred Opert racing for repairs. They didn't want to lose my business re the other cars, but for this one from N Ireland they charged 25.00 above the posted hourly rate. The mechanic would show me his wounds from carrying out simple tasks on a poorly designed auto.