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32 year old R4 found in new condition

Enrique

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Here's something you don't see every day.
A colombian car collector found this Jewel many kilometres away of his home in Pasto (South of Colombia).
The car had been stored for 20 years, since his original owner died. The car had 30000 original kilometres!!!
Only thing missing was the coolant glas deposit, which the original owner accidentally broke while washing it. So it has one of the newer plastic ones
Here's the story with some pics (in spanish, sorry).

http://es.geocities.com/carrocolombiano4/curiosidades/curiosidades.htm#curiosidades_r4henry

http://miarroba.com/foros/ver.php?foroid=690899&temaid=4875822
 
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He must be a very lucky guy...
I had met a person once here who told me that his aunt bought a R4 back in 1973, covered less than 5000 kms, then died and the car remained stored in a garage until 1996, when he got it. He drives it regularly then, it has some time marks but it is in a remarkably original condition.
There are a lot of such "forgotten cars" examples, not only R4s, you must be the right man in the right place...
 
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