<VV> Renault stories (was: Model name question (Non-Corvair))

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At 06:40 PM 4/19/05, R. Byers wrote:

>I drove a friend's [Renault] up 95 from Miami to New York one bleary 1969 
>Christmas break...

Technically speaking, my first car was a Renault 4CV.  It was given, for 
free, to myself and a buddy when I was 16 and he 15.  It did not run, which 
was not too big a deal since we did not drive.  But we set about fixing it, 
with our collective mechanical know-how... which was zero.

Somehow, we determined that the reason it did not run (it would start but 
not remain running) was that the carburetor float had a pinhole and had 
filled with fuel.  So, bright guys that we were, we fashioned a new carb 
float from a handy material... styrofoam.  As you might guess, the pinholed 
float worked better than the styrofoam one...

Ultimately, we gave the car to a classmate who thought it was cute.  We 
pushed it to her house, where it sat for the better part of a year before 
she gave it to someone else...

--Bob

Robert W. Marlow
Vairtec at optonline.net