Hasta La Ideas

Those photos above are from the shop at Autologistics Japan, a company in that country that specializes in converting the driver’s position from one side of the car to the other. While the before/after shots don’t appear to be of the same exact car—unless they switched the transmission from automatic to manual as well, which I understand can be done—the company claims they can convert some 30-odd models at a rate of 80 to 100 per month. In Australia, a company called Performax does similar work using digital manufacturing tools.

On the interwebs you can find decidedly jankier belt-driven conversions:

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