One of the last Renault 4 build in Ireland

johnf2020 · 23-05-2011 8:52am

G Luxel wrote: »

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

What I was refering to was that--I ran a history check on this Reg number on the Renault 16,.,and it shows a previous UK NUMBER(PIB7060)

carchaeologist · 23-05-2011 10:27am

johnf2020 wrote: »

What I was refering to was that--I ran a history check on this Reg number on the Renault 16,.,and it shows a previous UK NUMBER(PIB7060)

Thats a northern number from Armagh.

johnf2020 · 23-05-2011 10:29am

carchaeologist wrote: »

Thats a northern number from Armagh.

Believe me---that car did not come from Armagh;)

ants09 · 23-05-2011 11:01am

restoration of a renault 4 that a freind of mine has

http://www.northcoastclassics.ie/84renault4gtlrestoration.php

and when fully restored

http://www.northcoastclassics.ie/84renault4gtlrestorationgallery.html

johnf2020 · 23-05-2011 12:23pm

Absolutely fantastic:cool:---a credit to him for deciding to do it:D

carchaeologist · 23-05-2011 12:53pm

johnf2020 wrote: »

Believe me---that car did not come from Armagh;)

Re-reg on a personal plate so?

TheAnswer · 23-05-2011 12:55pm

What a great job on the R4 and I'll be torn to shreds for saying this but....at what point does a restoration cease to be a restoration? As far as I can tell, the only original parts (admittedly the very important parts) used were the frame/floor, running gear, 1 door and the bonnet.

ta2kev · 23-05-2011 1:37pm

Any of you guys see this?

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/gumball-2011

Anan1 · 23-05-2011 1:45pm

ta2kev wrote: »

Any of you guys see this?

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/gumball-2011

Bunch of halfwits.

testicle · 23-05-2011 1:51pm

Bitten & Hisses wrote: »

What year/county is JNI?

Wicklow. Not sure about the year.

PanhardPL · 23-05-2011 2:14pm

testicle wrote: »

Wicklow. Not sure about the year.

... JNI 4/82 - 10/82

TheAnswer · 23-05-2011 2:34pm

Anan1 wrote: »

Bunch of halfwits.

Nice, measured, well thought out response. Surely a case of "each to their own"?
It would have been better if they'd managed to do it without widening the arches though.

Anan1 · 23-05-2011 8:05pm

TheAnswer wrote: »

Nice, measured, well thought out response. Surely a case of "each to their own"?
It would have been better if they'd managed to do it without widening the arches though.

In fairness, that conversion is more about cheap laughs for the witless than about any kind of interest in cars or their heritage. All IMO, of course.:)

carchaeologist · 23-05-2011 9:34pm

Let's be brutally honest here, it's not an R4, it's a Clio V6 with an R4 upper body welded onto it. Neither car is particularly rare?
Not my bag, but it should look interesting when done in fairness.

bijapos · 23-05-2011 10:48pm

I think its Ok myself, as carchaeologist says neither car is anyways rare.

Then there is this one.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqvwIxYILUI

Anan1 · 24-05-2011 10:11am

carchaeologist wrote: »

Let's be brutally honest here, it's not an R4, it's a Clio V6 with an R4 upper body welded onto it. Neither car is particularly rare?
Not my bag, but it should look interesting when done in fairness.

I've no problem with the loss of either the Clio or the R4 - as you say, neither is that rare. I just find the basic idea of 'I know, let's take the shape of a really slow car and put it on a really fast one, ha ha ha' pretty puerile. If they'd tried to make an R4 faster then that would have involved engineering. It would also, most likely, have exceeded the attention span of their audience.

carchaeologist · 24-05-2011 1:59pm

Anan1 wrote: »

I've no problem with the loss of either the Clio or the R4 - as you say, neither is that rare. I just find the basic idea of 'I know, let's take the shape of a really slow car and put it on a really fast one, ha ha ha' pretty puerile. If they'd tried to make an R4 faster then that would have involved engineering. It would also, most likely, have exceeded the attention span of their audience.

+1
You hit the nail on the head there.

Xlaxeo · 24-05-2011 10:31pm

It's been done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg0huGpc5Ks

tinyjiney · 27-05-2011 1:36pm

Saw this cracker on hols last week....totally spotless......others i saw while driving were , pug 305, pug 504, toyota cressida,corolla dx, rwd starlet, R4 van,R5 , and a very old Renault van.....But for the van all were driving...seems a fair number of classics still being used in Lanzarote..

johnf2020 · 27-05-2011 3:37pm

He's Maurice Roddys 4TL that was at Durrow

This 4 was on the Celtic Link Ferry from Cherbourg to Rosslare last year.
3 your people coming over here on holidays and all their gear

This 4 was in Clonmel a few weeks ago. Something dodgy about the reg!

bijapos · 28-05-2011 12:31pm

johnf2020 wrote: »

This 4 was in Clonmel a few weeks ago. Something dodgy about the reg!

Reg is from South Tipperary from the early 1970's. Car is a LHD but the planks on the lower door, the door handles and the stripes suggest a late 70's or 1980's version.

carchaeologist · 28-05-2011 12:59pm

bijapos wrote: »

Reg is from South Tipperary from the early 1970's. Car is a LHD but the planks on the lower door, the door handles and the stripes suggest a late 70's or 1980's version.

Thats the rare special edition LHD version imported to Ireland by Renault in the early '70s, it featured more modern styling which was to become part of the '80s version.... Of course....

johnf2020 · 28-05-2011 1:37pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Thats the rare special edition LHD version imported to Ireland by Renault in the early '70s, it featured more modern styling which was to become part of the '80s version.... Of course....

Oh but of course the French plates on it a couple of years ago were fake then?:D

carchaeologist · 28-05-2011 9:40pm

johnf2020 wrote: »

Oh but of course the French plates on it a couple of years ago were fake then?:D

Absolutely, purely a homage to it's Gallic origins....:D

bijapos · 31-05-2011 7:54pm

ta2kev wrote: »

Any of you guys see this?

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/gumball-2011

carchaeologist wrote: »

Let's be brutally honest here, it's not an R4, it's a Clio V6 with an R4 upper body welded onto it. Neither car is particularly rare?
Not my bag, but it should look interesting when done in fairness.

Well, heres the finished product, like it or not. (Taken off the HWIST thread in the motors forum).

manta mad · 19-06-2011 8:07pm

finaly got to get this little 4 out of the shed its been in for the last few years !!!

got it back to my yard ,so will go through it tommorow and see whats needed

welder · 19-06-2011 9:25pm

Thats a great find Jim !
I wonder was the first owner the ESB ? When I worked in Turlough Hill in the 80s We had few of them up there and the reg seems kinda familar ! A good few of the apprentices learned to drive in them !
Best of luck with it

jimmyw · 20-06-2011 1:45am

At a show yesterday, a left hooker.

johnf2020 · 20-06-2011 8:33am

bijapos wrote: »

Reg is from South Tipperary from the early 1970's. Car is a LHD but the planks on the lower door, the door handles and the stripes suggest a late 70's or 1980's version.

Same car

Capri · 20-06-2011 9:33am

Bought a few at the P>T auctions - BEST cars I ever owned !

That white 87D van was probably ex-garda forensics or dog van.

This GTL looks like a Conamara patrol car

They even raced them in the Paris-Dakar race

http://www.google.com/search?q=renault+4+paris+dakar&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=

One of the last Renault 4 build in Ireland

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