doubleyeller Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Hi folks, having recently acquired Mouseflake's old Renault 30, I am looking to move on the Renault 20 in order to free up room in the garage for the R30! Those who have checked out my sporadic project thread will recall that I rescued this from an old guy's garage in Buckinghamshire where it had been stowed off the road since 1990! I have enjoyed working on her, and would like to do it all again with the R30 - for me the pleasure is in the project, not driving the finished car I have lavished the following on her: New cambeltNew batterynew headlight bulbsnew genuine Renault back boxNOS wiper motorreconditioned starter motor4 Amil alloysNew rear brake cylindersNew brake master cylinderATF changeEngine oil change and new filterNew air filter So what's left to do for an MOT? Not a lot! The brakes need bleeding off, and there is some welding to do on the OSF B pillar where it meets the wing. The NSR wheel arch has been cut away and needs replacing with the on-hand repair panel. Anybody feel like giving her the final shove toward roadworthiness? If you're handy with the MIG, you could probably do it for zilch spend! Car is located in Shipley, West Yorkshire. Price wise, it owes me about £2.5k, but I know I'm never going to see that again! It's the only TS Auto left in the UK IIRC. Shiter's price £1200 Dick Longbridge, Junkman, Bren and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Oh no. No no no. That's terrible timing. I'm out, very sadly. chaseracer, somewhatfoolish and Junkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Oh no. No no no. That's terrible timing. I'm out, very sadly.Hi m8 wud u swop 4 a broken lancia gamma and a ps3? doubleyeller, chaseracer, Junkman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Hi m8 wud u swop 4 a broken lancia gamma and a ps3?No lol! but either the 20 or the 30 has to go in all seriousness! Anybody got any cars they would be interested in swapping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Thinking about it Skizz, it's a good job you were in the Lancia rather than this when you broke down today. With the current state of high alert in that London and the Renault 20's well-publicised connections to terrorist organisations, you'd probably have had an SO15 SWAT team pinning you to the ground and pointing sub-machine guns at your head rather than being offered tea and sympathy by a rich bloke. RobT, HillmanImp, jonathan_dyane and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruJoe Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Oof, nice. Not far away too. A project for twelve hundred though... that's like the rest of my fleet put together. Can you tell I'm Yorkshire? djimbob, eddyramrod, strangeangel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Oof, nice. Not far away too. A project for twelve hundred though... that's like the rest of my fleet put together. Can you tell I'm Yorkshire? It's a lovely old car, but the camera does lie too - cosmetically, it's bloody scruffy! The price is a scrat compared to what it's drained me of anyway, so if anybody has fair offers to make, pm them to me. strangeangel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Swap for Alfa 156 dizzler sportwagon and Golf 1.6CL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Have a bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbraith Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Oh, that's just so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel bickle Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Theres a scrap spare, languishing in Sussex, for virtually no money. Must be of use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 What became of this? I see it's still not been taxed since 1990. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 It went off to live on a farm in the end. It's happy there No seriously, it did The plan was to restore it, but he's never done anything much with it after acquiring a R20 TX which is having money lavished on it.I should go get it back really, I think he's lost interest. But it was just such a ballache of a project! Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Slartibartfast 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 I don't get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Oh a storm is threat'nin ,my, very life today ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 I'm sure I uploaded a film clip of this 20 leaving the garage under it's own steam - it was a moment of small acomplishment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 The last Renault 20/30 I saw would be about 10 years ago, occasionally one used to be outside the Derbyshire Lane MOT place in Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 The last Renault 20/30 I saw would be about 10 years ago, occasionally one used to be outside the Derbyshire Lane MOT place in Sheffield. Yep, that was the black one that was rotten as a pear iirc? There were some photos of it on here many moons ago........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 "How Many Left" says at the end of last year there were 17 R20s and 7 R30s taxed in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 It was dark but can't remember what shade exactly. What became if it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 It was dark but can't remember what shade exactly. What became if it? Bought for scrap money sight unseen back in 2006, there was literally nothing worth saving on it. SCRAPPED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 "How Many Left" says at the end of last year there were 17 R20s and 7 R30s taxed in the UK. Sounds about right, they actually have a better survival rate than other much more common cars in the UK. At least five thousand still in France I would think, always a couple of dozen for sale on leboncoin at any one time. Not a rare car by any means, they just never sold very many over here Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Bought for scrap money sight unseen back in 2006, there was literally nothing worth saving on it. SCRAPPED.It must have been bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 It must have been bad! Absolutely snookered by all accounts - it had been parked outside and not driven since 1995, and must have been well and truly on it's last MOT even then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 It went off to live on a farm in the end. It's happy there No seriously, it did The plan was to restore it, but he's never done anything much with it after acquiring a R20 TX which is having money lavished on it.I should go get it back really, I think he's lost interest. But it was just such a ballache of a project!Think I've spoken to the current owner on the phone at work, he phoned up after some rear wheel cylinders and confirmed he was the owner of the 'very rotten brown one' as I twigged. Chap's name is Edward IIRC. I'm sure he said he had three 20/30 series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 Yep, he got all 3 off me. He's really going for it with the 20TX at the moment, spending a fortune on it, which is great to see. I don't know if he'll then get the TS restored. I might go get it back if he doesn't. The R30 is almost in checkmate bodywork wise but he would never scrap it, that's why I let him take it. Well time will tell, but he's certainly the sort of bloke that unloved cars like the R20 need - not afraid to spend money on an old car just because he likes it. Hats off to Edward, he's going to be driving something genuinely different to the shows this year RayMK, Dick Longbridge, eddyramrod and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Shame they aren't being restored. Maybe we could crowdfund a restoration? petermcpete, Split_Pin, HMC and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 They are going to be restored afaik.He's going all out with the 20TX, then he's starting on the 20TS, and the R30 is last in line. It's just a question of time and funds permitting I imagine - isn't it ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 ..... the R30 is last in line. It's just a question of time and funds and rear brake disc/pad availability permitting I imagine - isn't it ever EFA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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