The Great Gatsby

But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new co

Could you please tell me the meaning of "right side up" in the following excerpt of The Great Gatsby, chapter 3?

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It just means the right sids of the vehicle was raised up (the left side under) and is missing a wheel from the accident.