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renault 4
Posted on May 26, 2007 @ 11:17 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,blog,cheap,fashion,fun,holidays,illustration,mediterranean,news,people,travel,wordpress
In 1980 my father bought me a second hand Renault 4: I was very proud of it: its lysergic and bright green body made me very happy ! In July I decided to venture to Morocco driving my car: after all, in 1979 a Renault 4 was entered in the Paris-Dakar Rally and came 3rd while many cars didn’t even finish! All I had to do was bringing some spare parts with me and find someone who would join the trip. That was easy! On sunny early morning I left with a couple of friends. It was a long, long trip all the way trough South of France and Spain. After three days we finally landed in Ceuta, the last Spanish possession in Africa. The day after we crossed the border and got Morocco, a great place to carry out a bit of adventurous car driving. My old, cheap, strong car was perfect for the task. She broke out and suddenly died a few years later, God only knows why…
Illustration Friday’s topic is: cars
Here are three interesting links on last week’s topic. All of them had been considering about the massive and brainwashing amounts of advertisements we deal with every day…
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La mia macchina!! Ne ho avuta una bellissima bianca.. per cinque anni…, poi una tutta rossa….,
Renault 4…., una beige quando avevo cinque anni con mio padre alla guida che, giustamente, ha tolto le portiere .. tanto per stare tranquilli…! e al posto delle portiere … una catena…! Era …. divertentissimo!! AMO LA RENAULT 4!! La macchina più divertente esistita al mondo!! Me la compri papà?
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Very nice tribute to a good old car!
What a wonderful adventure! There is nothing like a road trip but this is so exotic!!! Lovely green car and your illustration makes me long for the open road… Happy Trails to you!!!
Carina la tua macchina, anche questa verde (bel colore!), ma piu’ bella era stata l’avventura, no?
cool new blog! awesome work-
Ohhh… now I get it! Your first car was a green one, too ;) mine is a boy hehehe, I see yours was a girl.
I love your illo, it’s such a nice tribute to that age.
Take care, Massimo :)
una avventura davvero fantastica … e la renault è mitica !!
going backwards in the past …
I enjoyed reading about your car trip. It would be interesting to see a demo of your precision technique. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but you must work in Illustrator. I wonder what your work would look like in Photoshop.
must have been 1 great road trip, nice car to not sure if u can still get them over here, lile the shade of green
its wonderful to a have that car its centiment and journey ilove that car.i have that car her in cebu philipines i have 1968R4 and also 1970 renault4wagonette all of them are good as new…
hehehe i love this car..
Great car! I like big solid cars. It’s cool that this model participated in the Paris-Dakar Rally. You had a really good trip with it, I see)
I’m so glad I stumbled upon this post (I realize that it’s a few years old). This is something I have always wanted to do! Hopefully someday I can drive a Renault 4, a mini or a daihatsu charade from France all the way down south to the cape. This is a truly inspirational post!
Good story, Massimo! I like renault 4 and my father have some car like that ! i think, Renault 4 it’s a simple and cute car, I love it! Thanks for share your story :)