I've had a couple opportunities lately to drive a RHD Fiat Fremont. No long trips, but I've put maybe 25-30 miles on it and I'm still not warming up to driving from the right-hand seat and shifting with my left hand/arm. It's been several years since I've driven a Starboard Amish vehicle on Port Amish roads and I don't remember feeling this uncomfortable with it. Actually, what's bothering me mostly are 3 things:
1) - Lane Positioning - I don't feel confident that I'm centering the vehicle in my traffic lane. I try using the old routine that my driver's education instructor, Mr. Bass (and you thought it might have been Gottlieb Daimler), taught me - stare at a spot in the center of my lane far down the road. I'm still very self-conscious about it.
2) - Steering with my dominant hand/arm while I'm shifting. One, or two, might think the right hand of a right-handed person would feel natural at this, but it isn't working that way for me.
3) - Using the mirrors to keep track of traffic behind me - for one thing, looking up to the left to check the windshield-mounted rearview mirror isn't a natural thing for me to do. I haven't found myself staring at the right-side A-Pillar yet, like I used to do when driving Starboard-Amish, but scanning that rearview mirror is like searching for Waldo - I have to scan FOR the mirror, then scan the image it is reflecting to me of the traffic behind me. The door-mounted side mirrors aren't such a big issue, but my primary point of reference must be that center mirror.
Shifting seems to be the least of my concerns, but I don't think I could ever get comfortable with how the floor pan isn't flat beneath the clutch pedal - must be an offset tunnel to fit the exhaust catalytic converter under.
