[johnta1]

What's the speed limit there?

[pontiacstogo]

Originally Posted by johnta1

What's the speed limit there?

All of the roads around this area are 2 lane (no major highways) and most are posted at 100KPH. That's around 60MPH. That speed actually suits the TA as it always fees a little busy at speeds higher than that.

I had a friends 15 year old son in the car - he's car mad so I was taking him for a quick run out to the beach. The cop came up behind us and thought we didn't have our seat belts on. Once he saw that we were both belted in we were on our way (after a quick chat about the car).

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Funny pic with the cop car , I guess the cop snapped the picture for you ?

Do they drive in the right lane or the left lane in New Zealand ?

[pontiacstogo]

Originally Posted by Baron Von Zeppelin

Funny pic with the cop car , I guess the cop snapped the picture for you ?

Do they drive in the right lane or the left lane in New Zealand ?

The cop was great so I asked if him if my passenger could get out and take a quick picture. We laughed about it for the rest of the drive and I'm sure he'll have a ton of stories to tell his buddies at school on Monday.

Other than the odd LHD import, all cars here are RHD and drive in the left lane. No problems with that so far. I've heard it can be difficult when passing on a two lane road, but I doubt I'll be doing much of that as I'm pretty happy to just be cruising around and I'm not in any hurry to get anywhere.

[Heybuck]

Originally Posted by pontiacstogo

Other than the odd LHD import, all cars here are RHD and drive in the left lane. No problems with that so far. I've heard it can be difficult when passing on a two lane road, but I doubt I'll be doing much of that as I'm pretty happy to just be cruising around and I'm not in any hurry to get anywhere.

I've never found it to be difficult but you just need to be careful. Let a longish gap open up between you and the vehicle you want to pass and just take it when you can see the road is open.

In the country, I usually wait till I see a long left hand bend in the road and you get plenty of opportunity to see what's coming.

[pontiacstogo]

Got the new plates fitted.

Personalized plates were an option, but I just ordered the US sized plates with the standard rego number that was issued to me when the car was complied. Relatively inexpensive and saved me having to try and get the NZ sized plates to fit;

[OZZIEVILLE 67 2 door]

Originally Posted by Heybuck

I've never found it to be difficult but you just need to be careful. Let a longish gap open up between you and the vehicle you want to pass and just take it when you can see the road is open.



In the country, I usually wait till I see a long left hand bend in the road and you get plenty of opportunity to see what's coming.

I just move out a little and look at the reaction on the face of my passenger

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