Renault 4 Scrappage victim...

Max_Damage

carchaeologist wrote: »

They do indeed have the 89 4L van too.This be her..

Hmm.....

Registration 89KY220
Make RENAULT
Model LAGUNA
Description 1.6 RTE SPORT
Fuel Type PETROL

Bitten & Hisses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Laguna

The first Laguna was launched in 1993

Xlaxeo

Max_Damage wrote: »

Hmm.....

Registration 89KY220
Make RENAULT
Model LAGUNA
Description 1.6 RTE SPORT
Fuel Type PETROL

A lot of the R4 vans appear as laguna's that way on cartell. It's obviously some kind of error

carchaeologist

Xlaxeo wrote: »

A lot of the R4 vans appear as laguna's that way on cartell. It's obviously some kind of error

Theres a few irregularities like that on cartell. I wonder what would happen if the cops ran your reg on their system,it would surely be the same information. Then you would have some explaining to do,though you wouldnt even be aware of the problem!

unkel

The R4F6 (1975) had a loading capacity of 2200l. Pretty impressive, if you consider that a Mercedes E-class estate (2010), about the biggest estate on the market, has a loading capacity of 1950l.

peasant

unkel wrote: »

The R4F6 (1975) had a loading capacity of 2200l.

or 11 teenagers + driver

(long story)

carchaeologist

peasant wrote: »

or 11 teenagers + driver

(long story)

We have all night....:p

peasant

Ah well ...seenashow you're twisting my arm

Was one of the supervisers in a kiddies youth camp at the time when I had the R4 F6. The camp was on a hilltop in the arsehole of nowhere. It also had a flagpole with a flag in the middle of it. Tradition was at the time that rivalling youth groups (bleeding protestants ) would try a raid and steal the flag. So we had night patrols on in watches all during the night ...added a sense of adventure for the kiddies and all that.

Anyhow, one night we caught this gang of 11 kids ( about 14 - 18) that had tried to steal our flag. We "arrested" them, fed them tea and sandwiches and then sent them home ...only to find out that they cleverly left their transport behind miles away and where so knackered from trecking up the hill that they couldn't possibly make it down again ...they also had broken their one and only torch on the way

The other cars in the camp where stuffed with provisions, so we packed them all in the Renault (two in the passenger seat, the rest crammed into the back somehow and I drove them back to their cars. (gingerly and in second gear, the Renault's springs bottoming out on the bad road). Still ...the passengers much preferred it to walking all the way

(this was in the days before mobile phones)

carchaeologist

Cant quite imagine that happening nowadays....:D Good story though!!

G Luxel

Are they still made in Slovenia? There was an ex p&t van in a field a few miles away from me. It was the larger Van, completely different to the vans that have been shown here in the thread. I think the first Renault 4 were sold here from 1962 onwards so do any of them survive??

colm_mcm

they stopped building them in Slovenia in 1994 AFAIK.

james1410

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I had one of those. Ex P&T, and it was a great yoke

Timing belt was done by cutting a hol in the bulkhead and welding it up afterwards.

I was in kerry recently for the rally of the lakes and went for a look around the renault dealership that van is in good nick i love to see dealers take pride in there heritage like the ford dealer in tallaght who have a restored mk2 capri in there show room it really brightens up the place as i find modern cars boring!

i didnt see that renault 4 in the dealers tough! only a 205 in a skip an escort estate and a rather nice mk3 fiesta all going to be scraped!

i did see an old 96 transit ambulance out the back of the ford dealers which would be a nice restoration/museam piece!

carchaeologist

james1410 wrote: »

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i didnt see that renault 4 in the dealers tough! only a 205 in a skip

Yes,that 205 is a 1997 one,one of the last,it looks in good shape but its actually rotten,no roof gutters on it.:eek: Must have been out by the sea somewhere.

hi5

A lot of those early transit ambulances came with the Essex 3.0 v6,worth checking if you ever see a scrap one;).

CamperMan

pure madness scrapping cars like this

Draye

Sold my first one to a collectionner. Could bring myself to scrap it. It was breaking my heart. But I was only 21 and had no money for the repairs so... Bought a ford fiesta with the money...

Life was never the same again...

Capri

G Luxel wrote: »

Are they still made in Slovenia? There was an ex p&t van in a field a few miles away from me. It was the larger Van, completely different to the vans that have been shown here in the thread. I think the first Renault 4 were sold here from 1962 onwards so do any of them survive??

THAT was an R4 f6 van, 1100cc engine and 'squarer' body

R4 racing turbo van
http://www.autobild.de/bilder/bilder-renault-r4-auf-rekordkurs-1871372.html#bild8|ref=http://www.autobild.de/artikel/renault-r4-auf-rekordkurs-1870836.html

Can we merge the 3 R4 topics here ?