that is pronounce rey-no not ray-nalt you fucken heathens,no wonder the french hate us because we hack their language so badly. the car above is the renault alpine a110,not the car i own but ooh i would love one in the old chrismas stocking.no i have the r5,also known as the le car,boy that marketing ploy sure endeared us to the gauls.
that is the car i have but it has been lowered which i will be correcting and has great big wide fenders which i machined hubs to space out the wheels to actually fit the fenders and has been gutted and is noisy and rusty and incredibly twitchy because one of the front a arm bushings is gone but man is it fun ripping around in.
now this is the car i would really like to own,the r5 maxi turbo.they took the r5 which is a front driver and flipped the engine into the back,turboed the piss out of it and came up with with about 350 horse at 36 pounds of boost.they were wayward nasty cars that had a tendancy to swap ends without warning but the right driver could hang them out all day and not even slow down for corners.
so enough of the history lesson,i fire up the renault after about 8 month and take it for a scream down whyte ave all the way to bonnie doon.it is all over the road,th engine is screaming because the throttle peddle is an on off switch and it is noisier than fuck,i am grinning getting the reminder of how much asshole puckering fun this car is.when i hook the anti roll bar up again,one mount got torn off when i found a curb under the snow and fix the a arm bushing,it is really gonna handle.it is a guy thing.
while we are on the subject of french cars,this is a citroen deux chevaux,the second longest produced car behind the vw bug.a friend of mine has one,they are hillarious to drive,the suspension is so incredibly soft you can get sea sick just driving.years ago citroen had a contest,anyone who could roll on got a free one.they took a bunch of people to an airport runway and let them have at her,no on flipped the car,you turn hard and the car just sinks down an weebles wobbles but will not fall down
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One of my private students has a REALLY OLD Renault. It is beautiful and in mint condition. It is an automatic but the steering wheel is in the dash and you have to push is to change gears. Totally trippy. The windows are all trippy and even the door handles feel space age. Beautiful car.
NOT an automatic. I am an idiot and a tool. It was a manual and the GEARSHIFT!! was in the dash board. Really weird.
I am such a girl sometimes.
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