Some Scans from the Vaults - Renault & Rover content.

[Bear]

A couple of PDFs in the archive.

 

First, a 1978 Renault Brochure.

 

Renault1978OCRComplete.pdf

 

And also, a brochure for the Rover 3500 SD1 in 1976

 

Rover35000Apr1976.pdf

 

Plus a wonderful* piece on the SD1 by none other than LJKS. Makes me think of Krusty the Klown and the Canyonero.

 

Rover3500Penthouse.pdf

 

[pshome]

Renault and Rover : 1 download each

Penthouse: 5 downloads... 

 

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

Nice work, I still have a copy of that Renault brochure that I picked up from the Renault dealer in Aberystwyth when I was 14. It's a great reference work and I often take it off the shelf just to browse .

It seems amazing that they were selling the4,5,6,12,14,15,16,17,20 and 30 all at the same time, the 4, 6 and 16 ,I think of as 60's cars and the 14 and 20 from the 80's.

When my lottery numbers come up I'll have one of everything in this book.

[Bear]

You use the cars in the book AS your lottery numbers...

[Skizzer]

I've got the 1978 Renault brochure too (somewhere).  It's ace - a whole book.  That three-eyed Renault 12 prototype used to give the 9-year-old me nightmares, though.

 

The 14 was ultra-modern in comparison with the rest of the range, even the 20/30.  They certainly started something with those grey plastic bumpers instead of chrome (though they regressed with the subsequent 18).

[chaseracer]

...I still have a copy of that Renault brochure that I picked up from the Renault dealer...

 

Me too!  Bowling Green Garage, Powick - between Malvern and Worcester.  There's still a dealership, in the original buildings, but they're flogging Skodas now.

[Shep Shepherd]

The Renault brochure is a thing of wonder

[mercrocker]

I still have that Renner brochure too, it was given to me by the local dealer when I had the first service on the company R4 van.   Really wanted a sunroof 17TS back then, I seem to remember....It was certainly a formidable range of cars, with so many apparent overlaps.  Renners were best when they were just numbers.

[RoadworkUK]

I love them, I've got the '78 and the '79.

 

Missed out on the '77 on eBay last week. Not entirely sure why I actually wanted it. It's an illness, I guess.

 

I covered (some of) the '78 Renault brochure over on Hooniverse. One of the things I do over there is "The Carchive" which is the worst pun I could come up with for a series about ancient car brochures. Plenty of chod in there.

 

(Here's a link, if you're interested)

[Negative Creep]

I like how one of the selling points of the Renault 4 is that it doesn't have hard seats, just before the interior shot shows them to be about 2cm deep

[r.welfare]

I had the 79 brochure years ago, a lot of the blurb and pictures are the same although the 12TS had been dropped with the introduction of the 18 range.

[chaseracer]

I covered (some of) the '78 Renault brochure over on Hooniverse. One of the things I do over there is "The Carchive" which is the worst pun I could come up with for a series about ancient car brochures. Plenty of chod in there.

 

(Here's a link, if you're interested)

 

HELL YEAH 

[Pillock]

Can someone with an SD1 confirm that the heated rear window and foglamp controls are in fact keyboard keys from a Commodore 64 or similar?

[JohnDeere]

Renault made some of thr best looking car seats EVVA.

 

Page 92 ahows the 14 being dipped into a bath of saline solution to protect the bodywork.

 

I also remember that brochure (and possibly the following year's version with the launch of the 18), but sadly was lost years ago.

[Bear]

Has anyone read the LJKS Rover bit, or are you all stuck on the front cover still?

I would have scanned the whole magazine but if you remember what 1970s porn was like, you'll understand why not. More bushes than Gardeners' World. And a fair amount of wood, too.

[Ghosty]

Can someone with an SD1 confirm that the heated rear window and foglamp controls are in fact keyboard keys from a Commodore 64 or similar?

 

Sounds like an urban myth - C64s and VIC20s that came before them are from the early '80s.

[Pillock]

Yeah, I probably missed the asterisk. They do look like proper clicky keyboard keys though!