Car Photo of the Day: Name That Car.

I stumbled upon this car Friday night when I went to the Tukwila train station to pick up Christopher coming home for Spring Break. I have not seen one of these since the 80s, and even then they were a pretty rare sight here in the US. I was carrying on a SMS text conversation with Chris as he approached. I asked him what end of the train he was on, and when he replied “second car in the front” I knew to park at the north end of the station, as I pulled into the parking lot my eyes were drawn immediately to this car. I texted Chris back saying “I’m parked next to the yellow (car).” He replied, “Do they even sell those here?” 🙂

The two photos above show some distinguishing characteristics. The first is an odd bulge in the bonnet on the passenger side. The second shows the 3-lug wheels. The latter might be a dead giveaway… we’ll see.

Do you know what car this is?

11 thoughts on “Car Photo of the Day: Name That Car.”

  1. You guys are hitting VERY close to the mark but *just* missing. Here’s a hint, a specific detail difference to this model:

    That’s the TDI Jetta in the background.

  2. Reason I didn’t know the model? When I was in ‘da car bidness,’ I tried to avoid working on Renaults, simply because they were…well, *weird.* No doubt the French built’em. They’re…*whimsical*.

    To boot, what we got over here were pretty unreliable, ill-handling things.

    I remember what my Dad said about Renaults (Chuck loves my Dad’s pithy sayings, and here’s another one, for the ages!): when Dad first saw the *rattan* headliner of a Renault ‘LeCar,’ Dad just looked up at it, thought for a second and said:

    “Figures. A people who fight with their feet and f**k with their mouth’d put a rattan headliner in a f’in’ car.”

    🙂

    He then learned that some ‘gendarmeries’ used the excreable LeCars as police cars, which brought an uproarious peal of laughter from Dad (who did NOT often laugh out loud) who said, “WHAT?? Whatta they do with the criminals…take’em to “Le Pokey??’

    🙂 🙂

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