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What's this burnt-out, rusty car please?

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Posted by: Edukator

It's not a guess, it's recognition, find me another car that has the headlights close together integrated with the bonnet and the wings separate. Renault made them from pre war to 1960 as saloon, coupé with dicky seat, van, estate... . Some of the detailing changed but they're as distictive as contemporaries such as the 2CV and Traction.

Edit: The Opel Olympia 

Well now i am thoroughly confused. Are they the same car?

 


 
Posted : 24/08/2026 11:16 am
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No, I recognised the Renault and then when you said "look at the clue" Googled "Renault Juvaquatre Opel". The Wiki page on the Renault then told me that the boss of Renault had vsisited the Berlin autoshow in the late thirties and copied every detail of the Opel for his new car. So telling them apart isn't easy, but given Scotroutes gave us the clue there must be some evidence not in the photo it's the Opel. 

The Opels are proabably quite rare but the Renaults had a long production run. They are often used in WW2 films though as with the Citroën Tractions if you look at the details they are often post war models posing as pre-war.


 
Posted : 24/08/2026 11:27 am
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Posted by: joshvegas

Get the motor running,

Head out on the bypass,

Looking for my dentures

As long as I've a warm ass.

 

 

It is excellent work, docking half a mark for rhyming with Amercanism

 

Mid-life crisis biker

Faded youth can be glum

Once a stallion 

Now low on cum

Rev that engine

Throb and hum

No dentures yet

Still chewing gum

Feeble circulation

Warmth for my bum

 


 
Posted : 24/08/2026 12:27 pm
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Get the motor running,

Head out on the byparse,

Looking for my dentures,

As long as I've a warm arse.

 

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Posted : 24/08/2026 12:42 pm
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Posted by: DickBarton
He has an EV, so no motor running and car still locked.
It's not even an EV thing. I've had it on every car i've had for the last decade and a half, at least. Still not owned an EV... 

And i snapped the scraper that came over with me from the UK, chiseling a couple of cm of ice of the screen was challenging...

(i had a disturbing clonk on one drive home from work though, no ice on the screen, but the bottle of antifreeze in the boot of the car had frozen. About -30.)


 
Posted : 24/08/2026 2:36 pm
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Posted by: mert

And i snapped the scraper that came over with me from the UK, chiseling a couple of cm of ice of the screen was challenging...

Yeah thats slightly different to someone who lives in bristol though innit.

 


 
Posted : 24/08/2026 3:43 pm
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