My 1st car was a 1976 Renault 5. It had a paltry 850cc engine, and the gear lever came out of the dash. I learnt more about car maintenance/repairs on this car than any night school course I went on. It was forever breaking down. I once had to strip down the carb and remove a slither of paint from the idle injector, and as for the points??!! Remember having to set points? Putting the car in gear and rocking it to get the points at the widest distance and then using feeler gauges to set them. It always seemed to happen when I had my best gear on coming back from some party or other. The floor eventually rotted away and I could see the road flashing by under my feet! The week before I traded it in, having already signed the deal, the speedo gave up. The following picture was taken in Nov 1982 at LHR, the car living up to its reputation by breaking down at Watford Gap services. I spent 30 minutes trying to get the brake drum housing off, before having the brainwave of letting the handbrake off!
My 1st car was a 1976 Renault 5. It had a paltry 850cc engine, and the gear lever came out of the dash. I learnt more about car maintenance/repairs on this car than any night school course I went on. It was forever breaking down. I once had to strip down the carb and remove a slither of paint from the idle injector, and as for the points??!! Remember having to set points? Putting the car in gear and rocking it to get the points at the widest distance and then using feeler gauges to set them. It always seemed to happen when I had my best gear on coming back from some party or other. The floor eventually rotted away and I could see the road flashing by under my feet! The week before I traded it in, having already signed the deal, the speedo gave up. The following picture was taken in Nov 1982 at LHR, the car living up to its reputation by breaking down at Watford Gap services. I spent 30 minutes trying to get the brake drum housing off, before having the brainwave of letting the handbrake off!
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