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Re: Listless owner with a listing R16

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Looks like there is a scrap car in my garage right now. Roof is nearly in primer. I'm typing this while the last bit of filler is drying. Normally I leave filler overnight, give it a chance to shrink slightly but this is only a tiny bit. Was going to prime the back wing but some fool parked the car 1cm too close to the workbench and now I can't open the boot which I need to do to remove the badges
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Anyway here is a picture of my first Renault 16
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50k from new. I bought it off the original owner. Really nice elderly Polish gent. Instead of a cup of tea we drank whisky in the afternoon. Say to say he is probably not about anymore. Victor Buzderwicz I think he was called. I tried to restore it but after poking the rear sill ends and seeing the car drop an inch made me call it a day. No garages wanted to touch it and I wasn't confident enough to fix it myself so it got stripped. I sold the engine to a chap in Tamworth who was going to put it in a Europa. (Amazing the shit I remember as I cannot tell you where !t wallet is) Technically I still own the rolling shell, I don't think it was ever actually scrapped

Junkman has the front bumper by the way.
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Re: Parallel Renault 16s I have owned

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My second R16. An auto
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Re: Parallel Renault 16s I have owned

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I do indeed.

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The white one was an interesting find. As soon as I got my driving license I was gone. I explored everywhere and one day in North Gloucestershire I found the white Renault in a garden. I slowed down, looked at it then thought no more of it until a few years later when I had got rid of the blue one. I managed to find the place again, and knocked on the door. It seemed solid enough underneath and a deal was done. It has been there about five years but it started up and drove fine. I trailered it home though.

I started work in it in my own arse about face way. I stripped down the front end and threw away the rotten wings. I bought new fibreglass ones from Smith & Deakin in Worcester. They weren't quite a simple bolt on job as I thought they would be so I moved on to the back end started painting that. Then I had a good poke at the rear suspension mounts. Crunch... I did an mot style bodge on them I had read about where you could weld the end mounts straight to the body, rather than remove them.

Then when I moved out of the family home I had nowhere to work so rented a space in a yard where I was allowed to work on it but never did get chance. If it's not at home, I can't seem to get stuff done. I tried to sell it but even twenty years ago it was a very rare car albeit a worthless and unsaleable one so I put it in the free classics section of Practical Classics. It ended up going to a chap in Kidderminster I knew of already called Crazy Dave. I filled it full of the bits I had stripped off the blue one.

I agreed to sit in it while he towed me the ten miles back as it wouldn't start for whatever reason. It was a very short rope and he had a Rover SD1. He was not a slow driver. I never heard anymore about the Renault or Crazy Dave, although he should be on here. I doubt the Renault still exists. Shame. I have learnt a lot in the last twenty years and both of those cars could be fixed now.
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Re: Parallel Renault 16s I have owned

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What attracts you to the R16 as a car?
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Re: Parallel Renault 16s I have owned

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The first car I ever drove was a Renault 6 on Pendine Sands when I was 7. I loved that little car. Not sure exactly why but it is the only car from my childhood I look back at fondly.

Also, I had a pack of Top Trumps from the seventies and loved the look of of the 16. Not what I would call pretty but distinctive. Even then as a child in the early eighties they had all vanished. I still have the pack although my son is the new custodian.

As an adult I am just drawn to the oddball cars that nobody else has, but these Renaults are such a good piece of engineering. Way ahead of their time and never really bettered. Amazing to think that my example is only nine years newer than my Wolseley
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Actually we love them because they make us look as if we understood French art house films and wear sunglasses even indoors.
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Re: Parallel Renault 16s I have owned

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Painted the roof today. It's not that good but it's good enough.

Last week I welded up the other front wing. It needed a new lip
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And a patch on the side
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It's in its first coat of filler now
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Oh and while I was priming the roof I noticed some rot underneath at the back. It wasn't visible before...
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Well I suppose the next job is to get the tailgate off to sort that. It needs surgery anyway
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Although it isn't that bad on the outside, there is a fair bit of rot underneath
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That is the wrong tailgate trim by the way. This is a GL, not a TL. I do have the correct earlier trim somewhere.
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Re: Parallel Renault 16 thread

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Hello my name is Carlos, I wish to buy beautiful Renault from you. You will use my wife for a week in return yes?
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Re: Parallel Renault 16 thread

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Hi Carlos I thank you from the heart of my bottom. I will only accept payment of £3000 plus wife by Western Union only upfront. Thank you please.
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