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VIN 16951 from France
Let me introduce you to VIN 16951 from August 1982. I just want to create a thread on the car to share the work done on the car over the past few years and the years to come. Nevertheless, it’s not a major restoration, so I hope you don’t mind a thread here?
So, I bought the car on October the 14th of 1995. The car had around 24000 miles on the odometer.
It belongs to a lady who was living in Missouri. A French guy bought it and brought it back to France and keeps it just 2 years and decided to sell it because he has too many cars. It means I am the third owner of the car.
I took a few pictures when I brought it back home. Old license plate ending 73.
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Changing owner means changing license plate, this time ending by 38
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Sorry guys for the quality of the pictures, but back in those days, I didn’t have a digital camera and I’m not sure if it already exists.
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I didn’t think to take pictures of all the work done at this time and I regret it now.
Fortunately, I took a few and try to explain the little job done.
On the last pictures, I don’t know if you saw it, but the front light was European, not the original sealed beam, I ordered them at D1. They had a really nice printed catalog and Internet wasn’t part of my life like many of previous owners I guess, but it was fun to write and go to the post office to buy nice stamps for the USA!
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Fortunately, some parts were available in a French Renault garage. I had to change the fuel accumulator a few days after being an owner. Spark & wire were changed too, to name a few parts.
I didn’t think about taking picture at that time…
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I was younger and interested by new radio. I decided to take off the Craig to replace it with a more modern unit. Also, I have installed a rear camera because I thought it was cool to get a black & white monitor on the dashboard.
The new radio needs some power amplifier to play songs.
As an ’83 model it doesn’t have a clock on the dash, so replaced it by a thermometer at this time.
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Like many people, I thought the car was too height for a sports car.
Old fashion way was to cut the spring to get it lower.
First time I made a mistake and cut too many spring so the front was too loo, and almost touch the ground… I had to ordered some new spring from D1 and cut it properly this time.
You can see the result below.
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This was the first modification to the car. Time changed and improvement too.
For example, for the spring, it will be safer to change them for the set of Eibach which I already bought and changed the chock by the Spax.
Furthermore, the radio will be replaced by the original Craig… The camera and monitor will be removed too.
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And then, time to digital pictures. (I have plenty of old silver pictures but it will take too much time to scan them all and beside they are only cruising pictures or stand still picture of the car)
So, when I had problem with my exhaust I asked how much it would cost for a brand new one, but with the shipping charge and custom tax it was very expensive. At that time even with a Swiss specialist it was expensive to buy it.
So, I asked someone to make his own exhaust in stainless to replace it. The price was almost equal to the original and will last forever. So, I decided to do it this way and the result was quite nice.
I’m sure you can find a better design nowadays but I’m happy with this one.
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