In a message dated 12/16/06 7:53:23 PM, owner-healeys-digest@autox.team.net
writes:
> ..and does anybody else remember the radio ad?
> A tune ending up with "...the Renault..." (BEEP BEEP) "...Dauphine..."
> (beep
> beep)! The car, I believe, had a country/city horn.
> GaryB (with way too much junk in his memory banks...)
>
Remembering is one of the joys of being in these old guys groups. My second
car, and the car that taught me what handling was all about was a 1959 Renault
Dauphine which I bought in 1965 from a mechanic who had restored it. It was so
much easier to driver than my 1949 Chevy that I found I really liked to
drive. I drove it from Oklahoma to New Jersey for all of my junior and start
of my
senior year in college (and the handling was sincerely fun going through West
Virginia, really), drove it back and forth from New Jersey to Poughkeepsie
nearly evey weekend (starting it with the crank handle to when the battery
wouldn't turn it over in the cold) to visit my girl friend and when the main
seal
finally gave out, abandoned it at a Newark tow truck company after it died on
the New Jersey turnpike. Not only did the horn have two tones, you honked it
by
pushing in a plunger switch on the end of the turn signal stalk. Good
memories, but I haven't seen one in years and years, even at foreign car
meets.
Cheers
Gary
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