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.

R4 van dublin.JPG

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.

mb1725

The age is backwards, JNI 1 - JNI 999 might be that old but the Renault is about 1981-2 I would say. Wicklow is correct.

PanhardPL

It's a Wicklow Registered R4 and would have been first registered in April 1982.

.JNI 4/82 until 10/82

CharlieCroker

I remember an aunt of mine had one of them in mustard. Couldn't tell you the year. Used to love the narrow back doors. She sold it for a Nissan bluebird. Same woman had an original fiat 500 and 2 bambino's. For a woman with no interest in cars she has great taste.

manta mad

PanhardPL wrote: »

It's a Wicklow Registered R4 and would have been first registered in April 1982.

.JNI 4/82 until 10/82

correct !!!!!!!

johnf2020

Blue850 wrote: »

Irish 85 R4



Irish 16 TX at Durrow last year

An Irish plate doesnt make an Irish 16;) Car history check gives a Previous UK NUMBER.

carchaeologist

johnf2020 wrote: »

An Irish plate doesnt make an Irish 16;) Car history check gives a Previous UK NUMBER.

Surely a late 70s import so.

PaddyFagan

carchaeologist wrote: »

Surely a late 70s import so.

Only a blow in so

johnf2020

PaddyFagan wrote: »

Only a blow in so

Our family is 100 years where we live,,,and we're still blow-ins:D

kyote00

Nice info and pics on Irish R4 manufactoring here...

http://www.reocities.com/richardirl/produ.htm

DarenO

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....

JIM 780 was one that I remember, my dad chased it down as his name is James but nothing came of it and I have some Dublin reg ones somewhere that are probably didn't make it past the 90s

Bitten & Hisses

PanhardPL wrote: »

It's a Wicklow Registered R4 and would have been first registered in April 1982.

.JNI 4/82 until 10/82

I remember a silver Manta GT/J around here, 949 JNI, but I haven't seen it in a very long time. Doesn't show on cartell either.

manatoo

Not a classic in terms of the above but a Renault nonetheless - the 25, now that was a cool car. I remember desperately trying to convince my Dad to buy one at Navan motor show in the late 1980s - the "voice synthesizer" - spaceship technology at the time!

Neighbour of ours bought one of the very last ones in 1992 and ran it for 8 or 10 years but it crumbled after that. I had a look at it abou 6 years ago for a resto but absolutely everything was wrong with it - engine, gearbox, electrics, body rust, chassis corrosion, really didn't hold up well....

bijapos

The 25 was pretty cool imo as well. I remember the stereo seemed to take up half the centre console. First car I ever saw with automatic station search and push button for changing the volume instead of a knob.


btw a R4 passed me yesterday up near Rathmines, dark beige in colour, think the reg was ZG 795 or ZG 975, seemed to be in good condition too.

manatoo

The 25 had a space age cabin for it's time. High seat positions, airy interior, that huge dash, much more like executive class cars of today than anything else available at the time.

Another neighbour of ours had a R4 van for work. He used to give us a lift to school in it sitting on the bench ledges in the back trying to get our legs around the ladder he had stickin out the roof hatch above the rear door

Silvera

I worked for a garage who carried out resprays for Renault Ireland in Eircom, An Post and ESB colour schemes. We resprayed new Renault Traffic, Master, Extra, R19 and R5 vans (which were imported in plain white).

We also did other work for Renault Ireland incl spraying and fitting spoilers and body kits on new R19's, Chamade's, R21's, etc.

I recall a new Renault A610 Alpine (on trade plates) dropping into the garage one day around 1992 - lovely car it was too!

Marlow

Silvera wrote: »

I recall a new Renault A610 Alpine (on trade plates) dropping into the garage one day around 1992 - lovely car it was too!

There's a lad around Dublin that has 3 of'em (A610's) and they come out regularly. He drove one of them at the last Cannonball run.

/M

Silvera

I think I spotted one of his A610's at Classic Car Live in Mondello last year.

Here's a pic of an '87 A610 that was posted here a couple of years ago.

Btw, I see that there is a red 'BIM' (Galway) reg R4 for sale in April's 'Irish Vintage Scene' if anybody is looking for one.

G Luxel

johnf2020 wrote: »

An Irish plate doesnt make an Irish 16;) Car history check gives a Previous UK NUMBER.

AZW 1 to YZW 999 (Mar 1976 - May 1983). The car was still built up to late 1979....

VolvoMan

bijapos wrote: »

btw a R4 passed me yesterday up near Rathmines, dark beige in colour, think the reg was ZG 795 or ZG 975, seemed to be in good condition too.

I think that lives around Dalkey near the DART station.

bijapos

Some pics from France in summer 2009, I only loaded them up a couple of days ago:rolleyes:. Still loads of 70's and 80's cars around there, especially in rural areas.


This one was in near perfect condition, was full with occupants and baggage so still living the hard life.





This one still has the yellow headlight bulbs, rare enough these days and a nice touch. I remember when I was a kid you always knew a French tourists car at night by the headlights.















This one was probably on its way back from a R4L Trophy run.