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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 4/9/2017 3:32 PM, Keith Stewart wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Rodney Ford<br>Brick, NJ<br>TR 4A irs<br>TR 7 Spider</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>… 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>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:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yBnCC-AbBBY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yBnCC-AbBBY</a><br><br>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. <br><br><br>Cheers.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Michael Porter<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Roswell, NM<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Serves me right for trying to go from memory. Haydn Gozzard (London Ontario) drove a Renault R8 Gordini to victory in the 1970 Shell 4000 Rally. In 1971, he expected to have the R12 Gordini but it did not arrive so he drove the 1970 winning car to victory again in 1971. The Rally covered 5000 miles across Canada starting in Ottawa Ontario and ending at mile 0 of the TransCanada Highway in Victoria British Columbia. In one of the earlier rallies, Triumph entered a factory team of TR4s (Wedgewood Blue) with alloy bodies. The cars were left in Canada following the rally and I seem to recall someone associated with Triumph Canada bought one but sold it a little later because he was fearful of the easy damage and high cost to repair, associated with the alloy body.<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>