The sight of this van reminded me that, when I was little, I definitely had a toy car of the same shape: at the time I didn’t understand which vehicle it was inspired by, but now I have understood it. Also because, honestly said, it is the absolute first time I see this Renault van:… Read More Groovy times: 1969 Renault Estafette R2137
There is a lot of France these last weeks, perhaps not just by chance: after finding the first car published on Monday, we have probably unconsciously focused on French cars: sometimes the brain works like this. Anyway, the point is not about finding “any” French car, but only those that we consider relevant in the… Read More Open rouge: 1962 Renault Floride S
Although this car is rare and, basically, unknown to most people – even to classic cars enthusiasts – this is not the first Sovam we publish. As already mentioned here, Sovam was founded in France in 1930 and specialized in mobile building shop kiosks based on light truck platforms: this model has inherited many components… Read More French oddball: 1967 Sovam 1100 VS
Not long ago we published a yellow A108, in conditions that looked beautiful. Today we have another one, but in much less seductive conditions than the first. It is in effect a car to be restored in its entirety, however it seems anything but a wreck: there is certainly a careful work to do to… Read More French bronze: 1966 Alpine A108
You may like it or not, but if we didn’t publish special cars like this one, we certainly wouldn’t be doing our job (in real life it’s certainly not a job). Or, maybe, that’s just because we used to be frequent visitors of autopuzzles.com A car that, actually, is the first time we see (even… Read More Renault inside: 1967 Sovam 1100 VS
This is really a strange car and perplexes us for several reasons, starting with the bodywork that it is very familiar to us. In fact, as many of you have already suspected, this is a body already seen elsewhere: it was taken integrally from a Ghia 1500 Coupé, built from 1965 to 1967, and adapted… Read More Transformers: 1971 Coachbuilt Renault R177
After a few weeks we return to Argentina to find a very rare car: it was designed and built by Louis Varela and equipped with a Renault engine, transmission and suspension. Being a small producer, Varela appropriately decided that his cars should have a fiberglass bodywork to contain production costs and, at the same time,… Read More Evolution of the species: 1970 Varela Andino GT
Seeing a car – that I used to see along the streets when I was young – slowly becoming a classic, makes me somehow unconfortable but I presume that I can’t do anything to stop all of this so here it is: a very quick hatchback from the early eighties. The most powerful car after the… Read More 7.5 seconds: 1981 Renault 5 Alpine Turbo
Another survivor here: this is not Maserati but a “humble” Alpine 310 which, on the other side, looks in even better condition than the Mistral. The Alpine 310 built in 1974 (344 cars built that year) was equipped with a four cylinders Gordini engine with a displacement of 1605 c.c., fed by a fuel injection and… Read More 30 years stored: 1974 Alpine A310
Spider not because it’s open, of course, but because the nose of this car always reminded us of the four eyes of the well known arachnid. This is not the first R8 Gordini we have spotted for sale in France where, of course, these cars were built by Renault which gave their engine to Henry Frétet and Amedeo Gordini, the… Read More Spider face: 1970 Renault R8 Gordini
