vulgalour Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 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. Vin, RoadworkUK, HillmanImp and 25 others 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 That screams 'pickup conversion' to me. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 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..... egg and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael1703 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Phwoarr "fast* back" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Entirely mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Fantastic Heres one for sale, £550: http://auto.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-435425969-renault-mini4-_JM Junkman, Jim Bell and Richard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Brilliant. I think I'd like South America. The Argentinians have done strange things to 2CVs - this is the 3CV Super America. Junkman, Supernaut and Jim Bell 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucedoctor Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Pablo Escobar would have liked that R4. He used a number of them to smuggle blow (in the wheelarch bubbles IIRC). BorniteIdentity and Jim Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 About as daft as the sausage-dog Niva, and every bit as desirable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 @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? egg and jonathan_dyane 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycox Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Fantastic Heres one for sale, £550: http://auto.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-435425969-renault-mini4-_JM Thanks Google Translate. Mr_Bo11ox, Conrad D. Conelrad, dollywobbler and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 @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. jonathan_dyane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 I want one. OBVS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 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. chaseracer and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Encarta, yikes I remember that too! egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I love how that advert trumpets 33bhp as a selling point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselassist Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 ....'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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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