One of the last Renault 4 build in Ireland

Marlow

Friend of mine and his dad picked this one up today






The worst rust in the car is this, otherwise it's actually quite clean and rust-free


/M

carchaeologist

Nice,but it's an imported car?

PanhardPL

This was imported, how come then it was assembled in Ireland.

Marlow

RHD Renaults were build in Naas and Wexford until 1984. Not sure if RHD ones were manufactured anywhere else until that time. RHD Renault 4's are also pretty rare.

This is an irish manufactured one. From the registration, it probably lived in the UK first. I'll know in a few days, when I get a look at the logbook. Only got the pictures today after the car was collected.

/M

G Luxel

So there were two renaults factorys in Ireland...Were they shipped in CKD form? Cant see them being built from foundrys here....

kyote00

I have a 86 NI registered R4 gtl (now vrt'd and legal) - we should start a club....;)
There was a irish registered one on carzone last year also...

Falconire

kyote00 wrote: »

I have a 86 NI registered R4 gtl (now vrt'd and legal) - we should start a club....;)
There was a irish registered one on carzone last year also...

Very nice

Lauder

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This one lives near me in Clontarf, Dublin. Always see it driving around. An elderly woman has it from new. Amazingly (or apparently) it has a full Renault main dealer service history and was recently resprayed through Renault.

dave45dave

Theres an 88 or 89 white van on the sundrive road in crumlin every day. Looks fairly clean for a workhorse

Max_Damage

dave45dave wrote: »

Theres an 88 or 89 white van on the sundrive road in crumlin every day. Looks fairly clean for a workhorse

Yeah, it's an '88 van I think. I've seen it around a good few times.

TheAnswer

Hugely popular in Portugal, I kinda have a hankering for one if spent more time there. crazy money though (as are all used cars over there). This is a 1990 model! looking for nearly 2k.

http://auto.sapo.pt/Renault-4-406653.aspx

TheAnswer

This thread has started me thinking about the 16TX, I haven't seen one in years, are there any left driving around?

aujopimur

TheAnswer wrote: »

This thread has started me thinking about the 16TX, I haven't seen one in years, are there any left driving around?

Maurice Roddy from Louth has a mint 16 among his collection of very nice renaults.

carchaeologist

TheAnswer wrote: »

This thread has started me thinking about the 16TX, I haven't seen one in years, are there any left driving around?

Here's one local to me.

Blue850

Irish 85 R4



Irish 16 TX at Durrow last year

DarenO

There's an R4 in a house just outside Terenure village as you head to Brighton Road, didn't have time to take a pic, don't think the owners would have appreciated me moving their wheelie bin just to get a pic

bonzodog2

I miss my R4s. What other car can you lift the rear wheels off the ground without a jack, or change a clutch in less than 30 minutes ?

bijapos

Two R16's here, both are in Ireland, both have incredibly low mileage. If you ever see them at a show the owner has the history of the cars written for all to read. He is very approachable too.


Terenure Classic Car Show 2009 056.jpg

This is the R4 van that is often in the city centre, original Irish number too it seems. I'm pretty sure there is another one around as well.

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TheAnswer

bijapos wrote: »

Two R16's here, both are in Ireland, both have incredibly low mileage. If you ever see them at a show the owner has the history of the cars written for all to read. He is very approachable too.


Terenure Classic Car Show 2009 056.jpg

This is the R4 van that is often in the city centre, original Irish number too it seems. I'm pretty sure there is another one around as well.

R4 van dublin.JPG

Both of those 16's are on UK plates. Are you sure they're based here?

Hermy

DarenO wrote: »

There's an R4 in a house just outside Terenure village as you head to Brighton Road, didn't have time to take a pic, don't think the owners would have appreciated me moving their wheelie bin just to get a pic

I've noticed that one too since that terrible blaze - still waiting for the bins to be moved.

bijapos

TheAnswer wrote: »

Both of those 16's are on UK plates. Are you sure they're based here?

I could be wrong but I am positive they are in Ireland. They both have very low mileage, I think one has only a couple of thousand, the other less than 5,000. I think one of the stories is that the original owner used to keep the car garaged and drove it our every Sunday to listen to the radio. I presume he has the plates still on to give them more of an "original look".

mondeo

Anyone remember in the mid 80's when the ESB use to use Renault 4 vans?

bijapos

mondeo wrote: »

Anyone remember in the mid 80's when the ESB use to use Renault 4 vans?

I remember around 1980 my mother trying to buy a second hand P&T (forerunner to Telecom Eireann) van. They were orange with white doors with P&T written in black on them. Anyone got a photo of them?

G Luxel

I would like to see early Irish Renault 4's like this one from 1961 to 1968? There must be at least a few of them on original irish plates....

mb1725

G Luxel wrote: »

I would like to see early Irish Renault 4's like this one from 1961 to 1968? There must be at least a few of them on original irish plates....

Any of them I ever saw were mustard in colour!

_Conrad_

a man just down the road from me has two 4s in the garden, they're 80s ones though

manta mad

origanel irish renault 4 GTL




the worst bit on it


and its a one woman owner with only 32000 miles on it !!!

_Conrad_

that needs to be rescued and fixed up

dingding

mondeo wrote: »

Anyone remember in the mid 80's when the ESB use to use Renault 4 vans?

Used to drive one then as I was an apprentice electrician with the ESB.

They had great engines and were very reliable.

Also had toyota liteaces and ford escorts and bigger vans ford transits and there was one leyland sherpa.

Occasionally drove 4WD LWB landrovers as well.

They were painted in the old yellow and light green two tone colours and about 1984 towards the end of my apprenticeship all vans were yellow with blue sign-writing.

Bitten & Hisses

What year/county is JNI?

dingding

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/ni.htm


Jan 1966 to Sept 1966 in Co Wicklow.