I see it pointing left. Maybe that is because I see it pointing that way as the wallpaper on my computer every day!! But the more I look at it pointing right, the more it grows on me.
I also think that the "Car club of Victoria / Australia" font needs to be stronger, funkier, and an easier font to embroid.
I deal with getting our golf club logo embroidered every day, and know how bad some fonts can look, and how difficult they can be.
If the font is stronger it tends to turn out better.
Something like this maybe??

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I have both van and ute, but definitely feel that the shape that most associate with sandman is a van. Most people don't even know that a sandman came as a ute.
It has to be the iconic van shape.