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One title. Make one good (?) car out of the two of them? They don't look horrible, but the drive on the LIE to go get them might be...
My uncle bought a manual trans Gordini brand new in the same green as the top car.
It wasn't a good car then. Combining two of them only concentrates the bad.
Those are rare enough, and it's fairly close to where I grew up, so it wouldn't surprise me if that silver car belonged to one of my friends when I was in high school.
He told me that he bought a Renault convertible, and I had no idea what he was talking about, so I went to his house to see it.
Possibly tge strangest car I'd ever been in.
That whole black top unbolts and lifts off.
It wasn't all that old at the time, but it wasn't running, and already seemed like a pile.
I've only ever seen one more like it, all these years later.
In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :
My uncle's green Gordini was the only Gordini I ever saw in in the flesh so far in my lifetime. Even when they were new.
The top is an absolute PITA to take off. My uncle would leave it off for the summer.
The shift linkage was a torture device that would make Rube Goldberg blush. I believe it failed when his car was two years old as I remember being under it with both my dad and uncle trying to fix it. The door "handle" design was another issue in its own right, but that green was beautiful when the car was new.
To be fair, my uncle was an odd duck who loved fiddly French cars and vans with 3 speed column shifters, so maybe he was a bit of a masochist.
A good friend had one. The only good things that he had to say about it were that it was decent in the snow and it looked good. Otherwise POS might best summarize it.
A potentially rare, not-so-good car?
I think you might have a Concours d'Lemons class winner on your hands.
In reply to Colin Wood :
Yeah, but then you would become someone who willingly overspent for a Gordini.
In reply to Russian Warship, Go Berkeley Yourself :
Touché
To be fair, that would include anyone who paid money for a Gordini.
I'm not sure, but that might be the engine that was in the S1 and S2 Europas.
Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:A good friend had one. The only good things that he had to say about it were that it was decent in the snow and it looked good. Otherwise POS might best summarize it.
Id have to question the "looked good" part. I like ugly stuff, myself, sometimes. So I can understand someone liking that. But can't go with looked good!
Oh man, glad I caught this now. 🤣. I was in Smithtown a few days ago.
The 3 lug wheels always seem quite odd to me ....
Woody (Forum Supportum) said:I'm not sure, but that might be the engine that was in the S1 and S2 Europas.
I think both engine and transaxle were used in Europas.
It would cost more than $4,000 to get it to Texas, get it running and then get it to anyplace where there was a Concours D' Lemans.
And that would be if you have a trailer and a reliable tow car.
Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:Woody (Forum Supportum) said:I'm not sure, but that might be the engine that was in the S1 and S2 Europas.
I think both engine and transaxle were used in Europas.
My friend bought an S2 Europa brand new. He had it about two years when he discovered it had a one-of-one formula car transmission. He traded it in on a new Twin Cam.
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