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Tonyvan posted:

...RHD 356s have the wipers parked in front of the driver - ie the opposite of what LHD cars had. Presumably they thought it through...

Yeah, if they consciously moved the ignition switch to the left of the driver to save a tenth of a second in a Lemans start and if they prescribe the correct way to align the P logo on a wheel's hubcap, you can bet they calculated the perfect place to park the wiper blades.

I'm guessing if you're buzzing down the autobahn and the Mercedes you're overtaking splashes through a puddle, suddenly obscuring your windscreen, you want the first stroke of the wipers to clear the schmutz, 274 milliseconds sooner than the second half of that stroke would.

I have no doubt that somewhere in Zuffenhausen, engineers with stopwatches and slide rules spent weeks on those calculations and will insist that there is no other proper way to mount wiper blades.

2/27/205:03 PM

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