Seventies Renaults
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Re: Seventies Renaults
Ahh, the rattan R4... I'd almost all but forgotten about those...
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Re: Seventies Renaults
A fair bit earlier, 1960s the boss of one of our neighbouring businesses came round bragging that he'd got a fantastic deal on a brand new Renault Dauphine, when he brought the car round for us to see I said "I've seen that car before."
"Impossible!" says he "it's straight from a London dealership."
I opened my recent copy of Autocar, there was his 'new' Dauphine being thrashed around a test track by the motoring press.
"Impossible!" says he "it's straight from a London dealership."
I opened my recent copy of Autocar, there was his 'new' Dauphine being thrashed around a test track by the motoring press.
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Wow they are seriously pretty.
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Re: Seventies Renaults
Continuing the slight "off-topic" swerve "Triggers Retro Road Tests" does have one from Autocar 25th May 1962, but its a Renault Dauphine Gordini so maybe not the exact car you are refering toGibbo2286 wrote: I opened my recent copy of Autocar, there was his 'new' Dauphine being thrashed around a test track by the motoring press.
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......oh and back bang on topic this interior has to come from the 1970's, and yes from Renault
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Renault 17NewcastleFalcon wrote:......oh and back bang on topic this interior has to come from the 1970's, and yes from Renault
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Re: Seventies Renaults
In the late 70's, early 80's I worked with a chap who bought a 17 with the removable top, fantastic looking car. What happened to the Renault design team
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Same as happened to all the other great design teamsmomag46 wrote:What happened to the Renault design team
Such a shame....
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Re: Seventies Renaults
What was the car that appeared in Renault Showrooms in every single year of the 1970's?
Its the Renault 6
1970
1979
Is there anything to say about them? Do they have a following?
Are they so bland that they are interesting?
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Its the Renault 6
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1979
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They were just a variation on the R4 as was the Dyane and Ami to the 2CV...
Good cars though...
Not seen one since the 70s..
Good cars though...
Not seen one since the 70s..
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According to howmanyleft only 24 of the Renault 6 family left licenced (10 sorn) so a definite rare spot that's going to be a 999 score on I Spy Classic Cars.CitroJim wrote: Not seen one since the 70s..
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Re: Seventies Renaults
My first car was a 78 R4 in flat brown. I had it for three years before downgrading to a '92 Escort, which was quicker and safer and stopped better and had more space in, but not as much character.
I used to drive to band practices in my 4, with three of us in plus bass, guitars, drum hardware, etc etc. Once I remember going out for a mountain bike/trail building session, three of us across the front seat and three bikes plus spades etc in the back. My mate in the middle had to operate the gears and handbrake
I've grown up with R4s, hated them for most of my childhood but I'm a bit more well-disposed to them now... my family had (and these are just the ones I remember)
VTC ***M, flat brown, this was the first one I think, eventually died on a family holiday - rear suspension mounts collapsed.
KTY ***X, bought to replace the above, seemed a bit characterless. Written off after a bint in (of all things) a BX Leader pulled out in front of us. To this day it's the only proper car accident I've been in.
WAD ***S, very nice, our family's first second car. It had non-opening windows in the back (and no seatbelts in the back either). Suffered with low oil pressure and got taken off the road in about 1991 I think. Eventually scrapped last year sometime...
B*** SFH, LHD import, went on for ages until rust got to it, still used as a runaround for dragging firewood around the place (not on the road obviously)
B-something-else, another LHD import, lots of money spent by PO, still doing daily driver duties...
Something-DUF, this was going to be my one but got as far as removing the body and then no further... story of my car life really. It had been painted in wood grain (no really) by the PO. I think the bodyshell is still about.
YUY ***M, my first car, still around and awaiting restoration - I put a bigger carb on it at some point and it went well.
OVA **R, great car with a great reg, sadly my dad scrapped it without transferring it.
WFA ***K, a green one with a rotten chassis but the engine runs like a sewing machine. Still around, probably first in line for resto.
Er, then there's
One for which I don't know the reg, but the chassis is still around, I'm hoping to re-body it at some point, as it ran really well when it was together.
Purple one with a full length roll back sunroof, eventually broken for that panel because the rest of it was rotten.
A very early 6v 747cc model which came from a scrapper having had something stacked on top of it.
One which ended up with Malcolm of the Renault 4 forum - he restored it beautifully and put a Gordini engine in it.
A white one with a full length sunroof which was restored and is still around, we are trying to work out why it's boiling the fuel in the carb.
A white one with no brakes which jumped out of first gear unless you held the gearstick in - this was actually the car I learnt to drive in (I learned quickly about engine braking).
A yellow one which I remember someone picking up on a beavertail, that's literally all I remember about it.
A grey GTL which we didn't like and was quickly moved on.
There were undoubtedly many more, these are just the ones I have memories of! Apart from the last one they have all been 847cc models, most of them had the bench seat in the front.
Needless to say there are still a lot of R4 spares around...
I have always liked the R16 but it looks like prices are going silly nowadays.
I used to drive to band practices in my 4, with three of us in plus bass, guitars, drum hardware, etc etc. Once I remember going out for a mountain bike/trail building session, three of us across the front seat and three bikes plus spades etc in the back. My mate in the middle had to operate the gears and handbrake
I've grown up with R4s, hated them for most of my childhood but I'm a bit more well-disposed to them now... my family had (and these are just the ones I remember)
VTC ***M, flat brown, this was the first one I think, eventually died on a family holiday - rear suspension mounts collapsed.
KTY ***X, bought to replace the above, seemed a bit characterless. Written off after a bint in (of all things) a BX Leader pulled out in front of us. To this day it's the only proper car accident I've been in.
WAD ***S, very nice, our family's first second car. It had non-opening windows in the back (and no seatbelts in the back either). Suffered with low oil pressure and got taken off the road in about 1991 I think. Eventually scrapped last year sometime...
B*** SFH, LHD import, went on for ages until rust got to it, still used as a runaround for dragging firewood around the place (not on the road obviously)
B-something-else, another LHD import, lots of money spent by PO, still doing daily driver duties...
Something-DUF, this was going to be my one but got as far as removing the body and then no further... story of my car life really. It had been painted in wood grain (no really) by the PO. I think the bodyshell is still about.
YUY ***M, my first car, still around and awaiting restoration - I put a bigger carb on it at some point and it went well.
OVA **R, great car with a great reg, sadly my dad scrapped it without transferring it.
WFA ***K, a green one with a rotten chassis but the engine runs like a sewing machine. Still around, probably first in line for resto.
Er, then there's
One for which I don't know the reg, but the chassis is still around, I'm hoping to re-body it at some point, as it ran really well when it was together.
Purple one with a full length roll back sunroof, eventually broken for that panel because the rest of it was rotten.
A very early 6v 747cc model which came from a scrapper having had something stacked on top of it.
One which ended up with Malcolm of the Renault 4 forum - he restored it beautifully and put a Gordini engine in it.
A white one with a full length sunroof which was restored and is still around, we are trying to work out why it's boiling the fuel in the carb.
A white one with no brakes which jumped out of first gear unless you held the gearstick in - this was actually the car I learnt to drive in (I learned quickly about engine braking).
A yellow one which I remember someone picking up on a beavertail, that's literally all I remember about it.
A grey GTL which we didn't like and was quickly moved on.
There were undoubtedly many more, these are just the ones I have memories of! Apart from the last one they have all been 847cc models, most of them had the bench seat in the front.
Needless to say there are still a lot of R4 spares around...
I have always liked the R16 but it looks like prices are going silly nowadays.
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I had two R4s when I was a teenager! Loved them. My first one was a 6V one too...
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Re: Seventies Renaults
OH yes my mate had an R4 he was giving me a hand on my car when i saw a pile of smoking junk coming up the road with smoke and steam i said i think thats your car she got out he said look at the state of it did you not know it was over heating she said you cant expect me to keep looking down at the dashboard when im driving , i nearly slid down the wall with tears in my eyes ,the car was toast so he juncked it !