Saru's 1976 Renault 16TS

[Saru]

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...