Renault Mini 4S. It's a Uruguay thing.

[vulgalour]

A bit of an odd one.  I'm up very late which seems to be prime weird car finding time.  From the internet: " In Uruguay, a special model designed and mounted, this is the 4S (S as Special, I suppose!) Because it is a 4L two doors with safety! 2 door, 4 windows for 2 seats and the tailgate changed against a small safe. Who knows why?"
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
I suppose it answers the question nobody asked of what a Renault 4 coupé would look like.

[Ghosty]

That screams 'pickup conversion' to me.

[mercrocker]

It also keeps making me think of 100E Fords for some reason.  

 

Flippin brilliant and exactly the sort of pron the internet was meant for.....

[michael1703]

Phwoarr "fast* back"

[mouseflakes]

Entirely mental.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Fantastic

 

Heres one for sale, £550:

 

http://auto.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-435425969-renault-mini4-_JM

 

[Split_Pin]

Just the sort of odd variants of otherwise once common cars that I love to see. I felt the same way when I saw a Renault 7 for the first time when in Menorca.

[dollywobbler]

Brilliant. I think I'd like South America. The Argentinians have done strange things to 2CVs - this is the 3CV Super America.

[saucedoctor]

Pablo Escobar would have liked that R4. He used a number of them to smuggle blow (in the wheelarch bubbles IIRC).

[vulgalour]

[vulgalour]

From here: http://boitierrouge.com/2015/12/18/renault-4s-mini-la-quatrelle-inconnue/

 

"Renault was of course distributed in Uruguay, first by the company Abal Enrique y Cia, then from 1962 by a new distributor / assembler, Santa Rosa Automotores. And the bosses of the new company had a brilliant idea: to overcome the very high tariffs on imported finished products, including automobiles, they would become a constructor in its own right. The trick? The tax applied only being on finished products, Santa Rosa then began to buy IKA-Renault utilities during assembly, chassis and parts to create his own version of the R4: the Mini (or 4S )."

 

(I'm using Google Translate because my French is still rougher than Artex)

[Asimo]

About as daft as the sausage-dog Niva, and every bit as desirable.

[vulgalour]

@mrjaydeeem over on Twitter linked me to a tiny little bit of info and I'm only sharing it because it's a freaking GEOCITIES link: http://www.geocities.ws/richardirl/uruguay4.htm

 

I mean really, Geocities! I wonder if he found it on Lycos or through another Geocities web-ring?

[garycox]

Fantastic

 

Heres one for sale, £550:

 

http://auto.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-435425969-renault-mini4-_JM

 

 

 

 

Thanks Google Translate.

[egg]

@mrjaydeeem over on Twitter linked me to a tiny little bit of info and I'm only sharing it because it's a freaking GEOCITIES link: http://www.geocities.ws/richardirl/uruguay4.htm

 

I mean really, Geocities! I wonder if he found it on Lycos or through another Geocities web-ring?

 

When the internetz was good. In the 90's most search results you got took you to personal pages like this. I miss.

[outlaw118]

I want one.

 

OBVS

[Split_Pin]

Christ, Geocities, the Halcyon days of the late 1990s Internet when it was exciting, if only because downloading a Windows Bitmap could be interrupted at any time by your mum shouting upstairs that she needed to use the phone.

[RoadworkUK]

Makes me want to try an old Tiscali dial-up CD from the front of Computer Shopper.

 

We weren't allowed an internet. My dad went halves with me on a copy of Encarta.

 

I looked hard for porn in it but no dice.

[Split_Pin]

Encarta, yikes I remember that too!

[wuvvum]

I love how that advert trumpets 33bhp as a selling point...

[dieselassist]

....'poop-de-ville'(vile??) version of the R4....

 

....pic 4 has the 'buttress style coupe' approach, N I lobe that bootlid design; looks like the basdardised top of a toolbox....its just such foresighted genius in design really...