What a hoot. Thanks for the story Gary.
Poughkeepsie. Memories there for me too. And the RD, the car with the city
horn - beep - beep and the country horn - beep - beep. My brother and I
assembled a plastic (Revel?) model of this car in those days - the 50s.
Dick Matson / Cashmere, WA
Bj8
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From: Michael Salter<mailto:msalter@precisionsportscar.com>
To: Editorgary@aol.com<mailto:Editorgary@aol.com> ;
healeys@autox.team.net<mailto:healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 6:34 AM
Subject: RE: Renault Dauphine
While we are on the subject of Renault Dauphines..check this out...
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/<http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/>
May have been a little tail happy!!!
>From someone else with overloaded memory banks....
Michael Salter
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/<http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/>
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Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:25 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net<mailto:healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Renault Dauphine
In a message dated 12/16/06 7:53:23 PM,
owner-healeys-digest@autox.team.net<mailto:owner-healeys-digest@autox.team.ne
t>
writes:
> ..and does anybody else remember the radio ad?
> A tune ending up with "...the Renault..." (BEEP BEEP) "...Dauphine..."
> (beep
> beep)! The car, I believe, had a country/city horn.
> GaryB (with way too much junk in his memory banks...)
>
Remembering is one of the joys of being in these old guys groups. My second
car, and the car that taught me what handling was all about was a 1959
Renault
Dauphine which I bought in 1965 from a mechanic who had restored it. It was
so
much easier to driver than my 1949 Chevy that I found I really liked to
drive. I drove it from Oklahoma to New Jersey for all of my junior and start
of my
senior year in college (and the handling was sincerely fun going through
West
Virginia, really), drove it back and forth from New Jersey to Poughkeepsie
nearly evey weekend (starting it with the crank handle to when the battery
wouldn't turn it over in the cold) to visit my girl friend and when the main
seal
finally gave out, abandoned it at a Newark tow truck company after it died
on
the New Jersey turnpike. Not only did the horn have two tones, you honked it
by
pushing in a plunger switch on the end of the turn signal stalk. Good
memories, but I haven't seen one in years and years, even at foreign car
meets.
Cheers
Gary
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