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The gendarmes have arrived to take away the creepy mime that was terrorising Mme Truffaut the postmistress. He of course has the right to remain silent.

Are you sure you have the same type of suspension parts on each side? Suspension geometry changed slightly for the '69 model and if you have a different upper or lower wishbone or stub axle from one side to the other (ie if wrong secondhand spares used for a crash repair) it will throw it out...

Small Servo on the front circuit only Angel. If it hadn't been enough my next plan was to add another small one to the rear circuit, and if that wasn't enough to replace the front one with the larger servo. But a single small servo turned out to be plenty in my opinion, bearing in mind I have...

Yeah but that's namby-pamby F1 horsepower, not proper R4 horsepower

Hi Edwin- my thoughts- The best way would be to get someone to stitch in new rubber. An auto upholsterer ought to be able to do it. Alternately as a student I repaired the seats in the R4 I had then with soft rubber webbing wrapped around the frames from side to side under the covers to take the...

Yes, hence my comment. I put a dual circuit cylinder in my 68 model, and a PBR remote booster on the front circuit. The booster sits under the bonnet on the RHS just in front of the radiator, about where the battery goes on later cars. On a later car you would put it in front of the firewall on...

They are comfy. Is this an early car or one of the special models that had them like the Safari? Either way worth keeping.

The wire to the tank goes between the rear floor and the top of the tank. You have to drop the tank to access it. Not a terrible job but best avoided by testing as you propose. When did the gauge shoot up? During/after starting and getting some battery charge on? Sometimes it shows low with...

Why do you specifically want discs? The reason I ask is it is an incredible amount of work for the payoff, and if you are just after more stopping power/less pedal pressure in town and on the freeway/motorway, rather than being able to do the monte carlo without them fading by the time you get...

Hey, what about for earlier cars (thinking 67-68)? Was there a wallet for those? What was the rest of the car like Angel? Cheers Piet

The German plate might be a bit of a red herring, but indicators to local manufacture would be rough roads options, typically a petrol tank guard and thicker front anti-roll bar. R4s were assembled from CKD kits in Heidelberg, Victoria up until 1968 but a couple of points- very early cars (ie...

My Dad got a bunch of R4 spares for me when in SA in the mid 70s and mentioned being told R4s were still being assembled on a sub rosa basis, but I don't know if there is any truth to this at all. Does any of the car plates have a 3 digit country number? If it had been brought in privately from...

If you went to a print shop or office support company (eg Officeworks which are everywhere in Australia- but don't know UK equivalent) with the template they could scan it and give you a pdf. Then anyone could take a pdf to similar plces and get them printed out to correct size on a flatbed...

You can fit rear anti-roll bars to any cars with pressed trailing arms with no holes in them. There is already a thread on the forum about how to do it, you should be able to look it up. When the rear anti-roll bar first came in it was an option for "rough roads" cars only in some markets. It...

The phenolic spacer is really important. They had them fitted when new but you often find on older cars they have gone missing or just replaced with a normal gasket and nothing else. I had same problem, correct spacer was missing, cut one out of 6mm phenolic sheet. This has so far worked fine...

As an impressionable child in the 70s I saw a Renault 4 with an R16 engine. Most of the firewall had to be chopped away to do it so it requires a lot of customising and general butchery. So I personally would not recommend it. Just my opinion. As for other cars- Renault 16 obviously, would make...

It seems to me more likely the fuel is draining out of the float bowl. It would have to go uphill to go back into the fuel pump. Look for leaks around the flat bowl bottom screws- drain plug and the adjustment screws.

Lovely van! The spanish wheels are great.

Wow! Really nice! Great work, and a fantastic colour scheme!

Best method Look for a nice tall truck going your direction at the speed you want. Pull in behind and get sucked along. You don't have to be dangerously close- in a R4 even quite far away - well within safe/normal distances you will notice you can let the throttle pedal up significantly. I just...