When I was a kid, this would have been like 1960 -62 or so, our neighbor
"Jack" (to whom my dad referred, in private, as "Jackleg" which I guess
was derogatory in some fashion) had a light blue Renault, I think it was
a Dauphine, that was pretty clapped out, as was a succession of his
various vehicles. I remember him spending several late evenings
underneath the thing, up on stands in the street in front of his house,
doing a bottom-end job on it. Of course, being a furrin car, this
engendered all sorts of remarks amongst the neighbors about what a POS
it must be (though at the time I don't think any of them used the S
word, at least not where I could hear it). Jackleg's family, which
included 2 chirruns about my age, also had a pet raccoon and a very
large black cat, which I thought was pretty cool. I also thought his
mechanical pursuits to be quite interesting but I was not allowed to get
near the vehicle while it was being worked on, so never really saw what
was actually going on under there.
I remember there being a commercial on TV about that time for that car,
it had a little jingle that went "Renault 'beepbeep' Dauphine", where
the "beepbeep" was the sound of the horn, which was very
freench-sounding. It was quite catchy, since I remember it still.
--R
On 2/2/15 1:58 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
My sister had a Dauphine. It was one of the "program cars" that GM execs got
when my Dad was working for GM in the late 60s.
I was always amazed by the pushbutton transmission it had.
Dan
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On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still
available:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1&_dmd=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_ipg=50&LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0&_from=R14%7CR40&_sacat=0&_nkw=renault+dauphine&LH_PrefLoc=3&_sop=3&rt=nc
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Folks
I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought
a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front)
that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC.
I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles.
I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We
managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine
that fits it.
Another project. The car is complete less engine.
In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i
think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it
in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the
original 20 or whatever it was.
I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in
1990.
thanks,
xx rick
Rick Hawkins
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