Quote from: Heo on February 07, 2024, 12:56:33 PM

I thought about that Renault   I wounder why Renault comit so much to racing and rally
when their customers consist of wino female shrinks and scoolteatcher with Marxsist ideas with zero interest in racing

Heo - Don't be shy!  Tell us how you really feel!! 

Those people in the US can't have Renaults, so they buy Subarus instead 

Well since the Forum been kind of quiet lately i tell you I actualy owed a Renault when i was a kid
A Floride , Dad made some horsetrading with a junkyard and the Floride become mine, a total rustbucket
My plan was for a new chassie with Volvo components but but it never happened


Nice looking exept for the front, Only a mother can love that. Tesla recycled that front design   I think when it went defenitly wrong for Renault was early 60s with the 4L and then it went downhill.
 
My 4th to 6th grade school was neighbor with a Journalist school It was a total Hippie camp. Main ocupation for the student was, smoking weed, drinking cheap redvine, reading Comrad Maos little red meinkampfh, Protest, Demonstrate, Worship Pol Pot and painting flowers on their Renault 4Ls.
Our theatchers warned us we was not to take any candies from them if they offereds us some . After that they got work on newspapers that was telling us the " Truth"
One time me and dad was going home from town, road passed the hippie camp, and a cow barn was on fire close to the hippie camp.
Dad stopped and saved the cows from the fire just after that the fire departmen showed up and started to put out the fire. When a hippie women showed up
totaly stoned," hide" behind a small tree ,took of her clothes and stark naked run for the fire . One fireman hosed her so she fell down and he  ::)hosed her away from the fire. Still remember her saggy tits flopping like a flag in hard wind from the spray. Cops showed up and had to handcuf her and take her away

7th to 9th grade i had 4 marxsist teatchers ,each of them had a maroon Renault 16 one was even a Stalinist he used to brag about his journeys to Sovietunion
and East Germany and tell us how much better there was, that he had seen Lenins corpse,bla,bla,bla.
He realy hated me beacuse i had a Thunderbird and a U.S flag on my denim Jacket and he asked me why and if i knew what that flag represented and i answered  yes FREDOM dont took me long to figure out how to press his button to send him through the roof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3PHEcD_wcs

Renault came up with an answer to the Ford Super Van in the mid 90's.  It's the V-10 F1 Espace van, probably the best sounding van ever built!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uklB0fgRkfQ

I thought about that Renault   I wounder why Renault comit so much to racing and rally
when their customers consist of wino female shrinks and scoolteatcher with Marxsist ideas with zero interest in racing

I have one of those Ford "meatkleavers"  like in Scotts post It moves alot of air
You can feel it pulling on your pantlegs when you stand in front of the car and
manipulate the throttle
I had it on the 66 fairlane i had, from the front you heard the fan before you heard the engine
OMG $500 for a rattlecan restored one with runnings i must check if mine is a cobrajet one
D0TA ? T isnt that a truck fan?

Gott Nytt Ar.
In this area the roads were not plowed 1900. The snow was packed with giant rolling rig.

Not good when cars appeared 1910's because in spring 2 meter depth of packed snow took longer to thaw. Cars had to drive in field alongside road until pack thawed.

We got the same here on some logging roads that not plowed in the winter. They ride their snowmobiles on the loggingroads and pack the
snow.  That become a problem in the spring when you want to get the logs out. The timbertrucks cant get there
I remember one year me and my father was loggin way up in the forrest. I drove up with my 65 Mustang on the packed snow to where
we unloaded the logs. We was sitting on some logs for a coffebreak. And two snomobiles came down the road stoped in front of the Mustang
and just stared and looked at each other and pointed

The woman and I thought it's been cold here, I guess we've just had it too easy for too long. Our low temps have been around 0 to -2 F, and pretty windy on some days (around 50MPH over the weekend), but -40 is seriously cold. It's supposed to be back in the 40s next week, though. I'm guessing you're above the Arctic Circle?

The "good" thing is when its 40 minus here it is alomst no wind and low humidity. So with the right clothes you can live with it but you dont go out if not nessesary
And i just changed oil in the daily, and just had a barrel with 15-40 diesel oil for the tractor so i put that in You dont want to start the car in minus 40 with that
probably like a glob of grease in the pan. Monday it is suposed to be around 0 c (about 28 F) but 8 inch of snow.
Im about 50 60 miles below the Arctic circle at the top of the gulf of bothnia i see the sea from my bedroom window.

Northwestern Connecticut approx 1960-61.
I'm the kid sitting on the hood/fuel tank of the Hough Payloader.
Back then this was used quite a bit to open up roads in several neighboring towns.
My uncle built a fuel tank between the V so he could raise the plow and refuel to keep going.
We don't get that kind of snow these days.

Judging by the height of the plow it is built for realy deep snow . Those pics is about 60 years after my pic,
There was a lot of progress in those 60 years. Now about 60 years after your pics not much difference realy.
I had to google Hough, interesting history.

Interesting