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Here's my Renault 16TS. I like how it looks and I love how it drives. That its looks annoy so many people is only 10% of the reason I bought it. Seeing as not many people know about these, here's the basic specs: FWD, 1.6L, 87hp at the fly, torsion bars all round, disc front end, best column-shift ever. The 16TS has, over the "normal" 16: * a cross-flow head with 32 weber * 100cc extra (the normal cars were 1.5 for French tax reasons -- go figure) * the snazzy dash (the normal cars had a strip speedo) So, the plan is: * drive and enjoy * ditch the dodgy knubbly steering wheel cover you can see in the last pic * restore the "spiderweb" pressed steel wheels that were thrown in when I picked the car up and fit them * possibly white wall the tyres on the stockers (early publicity shots from about '66 had whitewalls) * fix the stero, clock and half-strength tacho * umm...
