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Posted on May 26, 2007 @ 11:17 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa, blog, fun, travel, wordpress

renault 4 aynaku illustration travel

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, for some reasons…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 to bring some spare parts with me and find someone who would join the trip. That was easy, and one 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…And my old, cheap, strong car was perfect for the task….She broke out and died a few years later, suddenly, 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…

The odd neighbour ; Jeff Passetti ; Life’s little creatures

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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?

augh!

vanna wrote on May 27, 2007 - 10:39 am CEST

Very nice tribute to a good old car!

studio lolo wrote on May 27, 2007 - 5:55 pm CEST

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!!!

valgalart wrote on May 28, 2007 - 8:33 am CEST

Carina la tua macchina, anche questa verde (bel colore!), ma piu’ bella era stata l’avventura, no?

Nicole wrote on May 28, 2007 - 8:08 pm CEST

cool new blog! awesome work-

Michelle Lana wrote on May 29, 2007 - 5:16 pm CEST

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 :)

pati @-;– wrote on May 30, 2007 - 12:19 am CEST

una avventura davvero fantastica … e la renault è mitica !!
going backwards in the past …

mardou60 wrote on May 31, 2007 - 9:51 am CEST

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.

Bron Smith wrote on May 31, 2007 - 4:09 pm CEST

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

michael dailey wrote on June 1, 2007 - 4:34 am CEST

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