Having just sold my cherished car last week after 23 years of ownership, thought I’d be feeling a bit more emotion about it, but in actual fact feel quite pleased as having only done 1k in it last year, it was literally just something that started to get in the way in the garage. Ultimately it’s only stuff, and my relationship with ‘stuff’ has completely changed since moving to France, for the better I hasten to add 
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Lovely car Mat. It took the Japanese to produce such a worthy successor to MGBs, TRs, Austin-Healeys etc.
The last thing I need is another car 
but, what do you think of this little beauty…
I suppose importing her here would be a hassle and I had a 1970 rally prepared Cooper S here here some years ago that didn’t cope too well with heat (I had to keep the heater on in summer to keep her cool) and this one doesn’t seem to have pressurised cooling either. So the season you’d want to user her most, summer, she’d be running at her worst.
But the A series is such a nice little engine to tinker with and, as @letsmile said, it’s very enjoyable to tinker 
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ULEZ compliant is a nice touch - I suspect that it does not, in fact, meet the emissions standards but gets away with it being pre-1970.
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Matt, may I ask a question - at the risk of sounding dim - I read in a car magazine some time last year (probably in the waiting room of my local GP’s surgery) about how someone imported a classic car (if memory serves, I think it was a Renault Dauphine Gordini) and had it changed from LHD to RHD. Is that something that could be done with your car? Even if I cost a few grand you might be ‘quids in’ if you could sell it as LHD? As may be obvious from my question I know sweet bugger-all about cars 
Interesting concept to switch a car from RHD to LHD definitely way outside my DIY skills.
It must be possible though - I would imagine if you can locate a write off of the same model it would be easier to swap the relavent parts:
Binnacle (inc km Speedo)
Steering wheel and housing
Dashboard
Pedal box
Accelerator & clutch linkages
Brake linkage & master cylinder
There will be more things I have certainly run out of knowledge!
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When we lived in UK… OH changed a LHD to RHD for me, how I loved that car… he resprayed it too… Candy Apple Red if I recall correctly… 
Even if possible it would be a huge amount of work, unlikely to be worth it for anything BUT a classic.
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I think it would also need a full vehicle (DREAL) inspection not just a CT.
Other than a 13psi rad cap no. Last time I drove a moke was in Macau 1985.
Brings back some memories of my S though. Hi-lo suspension, centre oil pickup. Aluminium rear drums. Easy to convert to lhd. Remove stearing rack, turn it around and shift the column to the left. Bolt it all up tight and off you go. Not sure what “120mph dead speedo” means but I have a working one from an S if they are interested.
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Are they not easier on vintage vehicles?
Binacle is central, no need to touch likewise dashboard or what passes for it. Pedal box is easy and all bolt holes are already there. Brame and clutch are just pipe extentions, clutch is just moving the cable.
I would get rid of the ram air ducts and fit a K&N filter or wear out the engine let alone the intake roar.