French weirdness in potato country:
https://boise.craigslist.org/cto/5051230350.html
I took all the chrome off one when it showed up in my local junkyard. Added it to an old Mac roll around and it sold super fast lol...
Renault R10. Just an R8 with an extended front end and some upgrades here and there to be a more "premium" model.
Should be either the 1.1 or 1.3 motor depending on the year. Rear engine, swing axles, three lug wheels and are something I consider totally appealing .
I gave a 69 away a few years ago. Too far gone for me to consider building. I regret it once a week. That car was too cool.
So its like a French Corvair sedan? That is pretty cool. I love weird European cars.
Needs more cubic inches.
They added 3 more cubic inches to the front of it, what more do you want 
Wow! I haven't seen one of those since I was about 7.
It was our family car when I was a kid. My mother won it on a TV game show. Yep- it was a show kind of like The Price Is Right.
She won a car, and a piano. Sold the piano to pay the taxes on the car.
In those days they were called Ren-alts (not some snobby French sounding Ren-know).
I threw eggs at the windshield (from the INSIDE) before it was 2 months old. They dripped down into the defroster. As long as we owned it, whenever you turned the heater on, the car always smelled like rotten eggs! 
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 
On first sight I thought it looked like a baby Corvair, I was right! So which one is a knockoff of the other?
How many other cars only have 3 lug nuts?
French cars took a different approach to handling than the rest of the world.
Have you ever seen a French car corner in anger? What is hard to believe is that this actually works fairly well at getting around a corner AND soaking up bumps on French farm roads.
Talk about snap over steer !
When I was starting my R10 build I thought that playing up the odd factor was key. I really wanted to keep the three lug wheels so I cut the centers out of the stock 3.5" hoops and pressed them into 6" wide MK4 15" VW steelies
It would have been SO COOL! The other option is that the Sprinter van 6 lug wheels were the same PCD and would indeed bolt onto the car.
Another cool/strange thing is that Renault used the same drivetrain layout for the rear engine cars as they did for some of their front engine stuff. They just moved it forward in the chassis with the transaxle sticking into the bumper. This means that IF you could find a 5 speed R5/Le Car you would be able to bolt that later motor and trans into the back of any Dauphine, 4CV, R8, R10. Not that the motor was much different. The same wet sleeve block.
Skip to about 4 minutes in on this video to see why some folks love them so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ISgGA3Y90Q
Yet another neat feature the R10s had was a very Rambler like seat configuration. Individual buckets that seem like a bench seat and fold into the back seat like a bed.
Odd and interesting in the best possible way...
In reply to Jumper K. Balls:
That car looks hilariously fun to drive. So much want right now..
I've always wanted one of these, and a Dauphine.
spitfirebill wrote: I've always wanted one of these, and a Dauphine.
Soon after I got my license, my Dad bought a used Dauphine for my Mother & I to share. It was the worst car I've ever had. This was when one didn't instantly get a car just for living 16 years & it was sorta "my own car". Despite the coolness of having my own car & that most of the girls thought my little ferrin car was cute,I suggested to Dad that he sell it & I'd drive the Rambler or the farm truck when I had to go somewhere. He followed my suggestion soon after it stopped running whilst attempting to cross a railroad track with my Mother driving it.
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