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Don’t see the Smart or the Yugo. Fell off the bottom with “over 1,000” to save room on the chart.

My 1964 Renault Dauphine taught me just about everything that could go wrong with a new car. Even a small hole blown out of the side of a spark plug. Mechanic said “I never saw that one before.” If you didn’t get the steering mechanism greased every three or four months it seized up and sounded like a rusty freight car going to a siding with the train braking loudly, and you had to use all your arm strength to make it move left to right. And in 1964 “We don’t work on foreign cars. We don’t carry parts for foreign cars.” A while later everyone owned foreign cars.


6 posted on 07/19/2024 9:29:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

Owned a Renault 16 for 10 minutes. Kept blowing head gaskets. A feature not a bug.


66 posted on 07/20/2024 6:42:15 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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