The Epic Austrian owned R16 from Germany doing French things in a Parallel Universe near England Saga

[Junkman]

If you don't look like this after ten minutes of car ownership, you bought the wrong car:

 

 

 

The fog has lost its horror:

 

 

 

Diamonds are forever:

 

[BorniteIdentity]

Smashing. 

 

Further evidence that not all heroes wear capes.  Sometimes it's chinos and a smile not dissimilar to Suggs'.

 

10/10. 

[Longblackcoat]

Definite winner!

[Felly Magic]

Not a Twenny ISIS, PAH!

[HillmanImp]

Trying to get used to countless pedals and a weird lever

 

I understand that's the covfefe lever.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Look at the symbols for the heater controls!

 

 

Amazing.

[trigger]

Hubba hubba! I'm still smiling after driving Skizzers one at Shitefest 15, you'll love the drive home.

[Felly Magic]

JM & Conrad, you absolute legends

[BorniteIdentity]

What does the "Yewtree" mode actually do?

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Kicks a child in the balls by the looks of it.

 

Scared to move it tbh

[Zantimisfit]

****. Your pictures aren't loading for me. What have you got? I can see its a Renault...is it a 16?

 

Are you heading further north?

[dollywobbler]

****. Your pictures aren't loading for me. What have you got? I can see its a Renault...is it a 16?

 

Are you heading further north?

 

Certainly not a great advert for Photobucket. My gran could display photos quicker than that, and she's dead.

 

However, WINNING. That is very much it.

[Zantimisfit]

Certainly not a great advert for Photobucket. My gran could display photos quicker than that, and she's dead.

 

However, WINNING. That is very much it.

Yeah but waht has he got? I feel like there's a big party and i'm the only one not invited. Is it a 16?

[Junkman]

****. Your pictures aren't loading for me. What have you got? I can see its a Renault...is it a 16?

 

Are you heading further north?

 

We have retreated to the currently northernmost outpost of the GGG.

 

 

The typical ladies' choice when the GGG shows up is going on:

 

[Junkman]

Nessie lives in the garden:

 

[Junkman]

Courtesy of the working cigarette lighter smokestix appropriate for the car were purchased:
 

 

We have meanwhile also reached an intoxication level suitable for the occasion:

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Yeah but waht has he got? I feel like there's a big party and i'm the only one not invited. Is it a 16?

No he's bought a Renault Koleos Diesel with leather seats, apparently no one in Britain actually bought one, even though they were on sale here for 4 years. The GGG as usual were ahead of the curve when it came to recognising the classic potential of what others think is just old shite- see also Rover P6.

 

Also as you can't see the pictures, I feel I should point out Mr Conelrad lost the fingers of his right hand to a giant French pussy and is currently sitting at a speed dating event at what looks ,from the white plastic garden furniture, a retro French Pikey site.

 

Any more info I can provide about the photos, just ask.

 

You're welcome!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

German telly

 

[wuvvum]

Excelsior international buying skillz.  I would love an early 16.

[Dick Longbridge]

That's proper gorgeous. What does the script in the back window say - something like all modern Renaults are shit? Oh, one more question, you don't have a famous, but bloody annoying son called Edward, do you?!

[Felly Magic]

Wrong gears, 4 cylinders short, has some alien species captured Junkman and replaced him with a doppelganger? LOL

[Junkman]

That's proper gorgeous. What does the script in the back window say - something like all modern Renaults are shit?

Thank you so much!

I think it says "Everything built after 1986 is total tosh."

 

Oh, one more question, you don't have a famous, but bloody annoying son called Edward, do you?!

Not that I know of.

[alcyonecorporation]

I drove ein automatisch 16 once.

 

 

 

I wasn't driving it here.

[Junkman]

Stupid question - does anyone know how to open that air flap?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

That cat reminds me of Goering in a fur coat.

 

Not that I ever met the Reichsmarschall, but I lived in Hamburg once.

 

Nice renolt m8.

 

Carry on.

[Captain Furious]

I have no idea what this is but I'm envious of your epic road trips. Collectioneering like a pro.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Stupid question - does anyone know how to open that air flap?

It's been 35 years since I drove a 16 , but I seem to remember it's a lever down near ones left shin, sort of where a bonnet pull might be. Presumably the vent and lever are dependent on left or right hand drive, also am I right in thinking very early cars just had a vent with no flap?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

DAY TWO

 

The car must be registered before we can drive it away. So the dealer is driving us to a fairly distant town so we can experience some German bureaucracy.

 

[beko1987]

You'll be done in 16 minutes!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Hmm, I don't know enough German to know exactly what's going on here but I do know enough "a large queue has formed behind us and there's a lot of quick back and forth" to know is not going 100% smoothly.