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This thing is COOL!!! https://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/5399329368.html





"About an hour from Sacramento you will find this unusual ride! This 1960 Renault Caravelle runs and drives but doesn't stop. . . (it needs brake work.)

This vintage French sports car has a removable hardtop AND it's a convertible! It has brand-new tires. This particular car is an upgrade; it's a "Gordini" edition, with a slightly more powerful engine. For it's age, the body is remarkably straight.

It's a rear-engine water-cooled vehicle. The engine is 850 cc's. The transmission is a manual 4-speed. It has the original black and gold license plates. All four hubcaps are here. All the glass is good.

There are still a large number of parts available for this car; the spark plugs and points / condenser were purchased at the local Napa Auto Parts, and the carburetor kit came from eBay. The tires came from Big O.

Even though most of the body is straight and solid, the driver floor has rust holes and the interior is extremely rough. One tail light is broken. The soft-top is no good. At the moment, the generator appears to not be charging.

This cool-looking car is a serious project. There are no back fees with DMV as this vehicle has been out of the system for decades. I don't have a title; you will receive a bill of sale and other supporting documents. (VIN verification, Statement of Facts.)

$1,800 is not a bad price these days for a running vintage car. Call / text / email Morgan at show contact info Thanks for looking!"

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You could be there in a couple days

Jeff

Those things were always fun to test crash. I think it'd be a great old car to fix up and just plain drive. I drove a few when we'd go to Europe to race bikes, and also drove the Humber Super-Snipe's as well.

We taught ourselves how to stop a speed wobble, when we were in Australia, when we drove Greg Hansford's mum's Holden Monaro, it'd speed wobble at just about any speed, we'd get off the throttle, tap the brakes and floor the throttle, wobble stopped, for a bit. Fun to drive stuff.

Another car that was also a blast was the Citroen DC (Deux Chevaux). I seem to remember that if you did it right, you could drive the thing with one wheel completely off the ground (JP might have to confirm that, as it was decades ago I drove my last one).

I confirme Tuner Citroen 2 CV is an incredible car with my Citroen DS 21 injection there is one of the two cars I regret to have sold!
If someone will buy the Renault caravelle and need parts he can ask me even if am not at all a car guy.

That car is so close to me, I can smell it, just in the next state, love to have it, but, no bucks, no Buck Rogers. A Corvair engine/transaxle will fit with a good amount of fitting, and I know this Corvair guy in Sandia Park, Hurley.....

All I need is the dosh,

My family had a DS when I was a little kid, JP. It was the first car my father owned that had disk brakes and radial tires. Shortly after he got it, another driver ran a stop sign in the rain. Dad was sure he was going to hit it, and hit the brakes to try to slow down as much as possible before the crash. The Citroën stopped well short of the other car, and Dad was dumbfounded. As a little kid, I liked the horn that was city and country selectable (dweet and HONK) and the auto-leveling hydraulic suspension. You could put 500 lbs of bricks in one side of the trunk compartment and in a minute or so the car would pump itself back to level. But you had one too, so you know.

When I was 17 I was tempted to buy a used SM that was in the classified section of the Washington Post, but I opted for a drag boat instead.

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fantastic car I owned two: one DS 21 injection 129 HP 120 MPH, one DS 21 carburetor 110 HP, 110 MPH.On this car when you put away the rear seat you fit an h2 with a few parts disassemble (front wheel) and an Aspes 125cc, 3 guys front seat, parts for the race, tools, camping and so on, came back from the track south of France to Paris with a mileage of 100 MPH + per hour.
As you said the brakes were incredible and the hydraulic suspension too to say nothing about the drawing.
There were very cheap cars on the end of the 70s and many racers as me buy one four doors or the station-wagon (on this one you could fit 3 kawasaki 400 S3 inside: 1 with front wheel front the middle rear wheel front and then the last front wheel front ):mrgreen:
My father owned two also on the 60s.He was king of the road and even fought against Porsche 911 on twisty roads at this time.
When I will retired would buy one again if I need a car