[TR] What is This Car?

[Dave]

Gordini was what I was thinking when I said Abarth.  Senior moment.  A friend of mine has a collection of non-running Dauphines, one of which is a late-model Gordini with four wheel disc and a five-speed.  He also has an early four-speed model with four wheel drum.  They have been lying dormant for a couple decades.  He has plans of consolidating them into one running car but he spends all his time rebuilding old wooden boats.

 

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com>
To: Keith Stewart <keithstewart at bell.net>; FordneyNJ <FordneyNJ at aol.com>; triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sun, Apr 9, 2017 8:54 pm
Subject: Re: [TR] What is This Car?


    
On 4/9/2017 3:32 PM, Keith Stewart      wrote:
    
    
                        
        

            I had one of those so many years ago. It was called a            Renault Gordini. Gordini was the tuner not Abarth. I don't            remember it as a 5 speed. It did have a tuned header and a            very vague shifter.
        
          
 
        
        
          
Rodney              Ford
              Brick, NJ
              TR 4A irs
              TR 7 Spider
          
 
          
…              and one of my mechanics back in the 60s drove a Renault              Gordini in major North American rallies. If I remember              correctly, he won the Shell 4000 in that car.
          
 
          
 
        
      
    
    Um, there might be some confusion here.  There was a Gordini version    of the Dauphine, but the rally cars began with, I believe, the    Gordini version of the Renault 8, which was a boxier-looking    rear-engined sedan.  Here's an R8 Gordini circa 1964:
    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yBnCC-AbBBY
    
    During the `60s and `70s, there were other Gordinis, based on the    R5, R12 and the R17.  For a while, Gordini was a separate tuner, and    produced cars in the same way Carroll Shelby produced Shelby    Mustangs, or AMG did with Mercedes.  Like AMG and Mercedes, Gordini    was eventually folded into Renault's Sport division.   
    
    
    Cheers.
    
-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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