Car No 5....Renault Dauphine..1960

It should be noted that most of the cars I owned in my early days were...well..bombs!! Yet, as said earlier, I learnt a lot from them, when one is forced to fix ones own car one soon learns..lol.

Once I had put together a reasonable set of tools I found my love affair with the car blossomed, I got a lot of satisfaction from fixing them...often I'd just pull something apart simply to see how it worked, I spent many hours in the local libraries pondering workshop manuals.

At this point in time I had discovered that some cars are good to work on, Holdens and Jap cars are good, British cars can be a real pain but French cars take the cake...I became convinced that French engineers went out of their way to make even simple servicing a major event!!...I had this little French car for a very short time and was quite glad to get rid of it....it has faded way back into my memory and should stay there.