....OK, I finaly joined the JCNA list. Pascal....congrats. The site is awesome! Great work.

So I was over Gary Hagopian's house today, playing around in his workshop(I should say machine shop!). Harry Parkinson, Gary, and myself started a discussion about wire wheels. I asked the question about the "NEAR" and "OFF" markings on the knock-offs. The Left is marked NEAR, the Right is marked OFF. Harry thought NEAR was the drivers' side, but what if it's a RHD? I looked in all of my books, owners manual for our E-type, parts books, etc...... nothing helpfull.

What does NEAR and OFF refer to?

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Rich Mozzetta
Sunapee, NH
72 E SIII V12

Submitted by NE52-32043 on Mon, 12/16/2002 - 16:56

Warren,

Nice picture... but that's the near side, not the off side. LOL

Steve Weinstein, JTC-NJ
'72 E-type 2+2
'89 XJS Coupe

Submitted by warren.hansen@… on Thu, 12/12/2002 - 23:30

Rich,

Now you understand the derivation of the title of Duth Mandel's occasional column in AutoWeek: "Offside Undo". Welcome to the inner circle!

Regards,
Warren

Submitted by rmozzett@norte… on Thu, 12/12/2002 - 17:00

Pascal....you were right, I mean correct....I mean.....

Actually, I heard from a guy in the UK, who said in fact the markings were for RHD cars(in the UK), thus NEAR is curb, OFF is closest to the center of the road. All of this was based on old English horse talk!:-)

....so it's a horse thing after all. Harry thought it may have been that also.
Near side of the horse is closest to curb, off side is, well, the side you fall off of if you missed the saddle I guess. This way you won't hit your head on the curb.:-)

Rich

Submitted by pascal@jcna.com on Wed, 12/11/2002 - 20:56

thks Rich... when you get a chance, upload some pictures of your car in the gallery... we need more V12 Es there :-)

NEAR the kerb ? ( on a RHD )...

Pascal Gademer
72 E-type 2+2
00 XKRCoupe
99 XJR