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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Je t'aime la vouiture de la hoonage! A friend of mine had one in college and was an absolute blast to ride around in.


    But for 5 grand? Mais non!

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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Answer four, again.


    Nice Price, though. That's about the most anyone would ever pay for one, but that's also the best-condition Le Car left. So, barely a Nice Price. Okay Price, maybe.

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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    I like it. I have a sick, twisted fetish for French cars (when I was born, my parents brought me home from the hospital in a Peugeot 505sti-- it warped me) and if I was looking for a strange old econobox like that, it'd be cheaper than a Mini, Fiat 500 or 2CV and infinitely more interesting than anything ever to come out of Japan-- if only because I'd never be sure whether it would start in the morning. But I find it hard to envision paying $5300 for an R5 when Bringatrailer.com featured a rally-prepped one for $3500: [bringatrailer.com]
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    A LeCar priced higher than three figures? Crack pipe, mon ami.
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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    $5300 for a Renault?


    8 Gordini? Possibly.

    A 12-second, VW-powered Dauphine drag car? Absolutely.


    A Le Car? Um...No.

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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Back in the day, these things were a running joke.. When they ran, that is.
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    Image of abgwin abgwin
    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    ah, the LeCar. Had one in high school. Mine was bullet proof. The biggest problem was the needles in the gauges couldn't handle the summer heat in Oklahoma and curled. Had to disassemble them and trim them; they then worked like a charm.


    what's not to love about a car with only three lug nuts?

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    12/16/08

    @abgwin: Twelve lugnuts, if you count them.
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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    On Safari it is impossible to vote again.
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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Gremlin, Pacer--interesting weird cars.

    R5? Not so much.


    C'est une pipe.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Too bad that little Renault is eighty three cents overpriced. Five grand is about three grand too much, but compared to the crap folks were asking a quarter mil for just days ago, this reeks of sweet reasonableness. And it wasn't even on fire when the photos were taken.


    Besides, I need a car. This says it's a car. They even wrote it for you on the side. So there you go.


    Yeah a Turbo version would be far better. But with this one they'll be able to recognizable pieces of me out of the wreckage. Gotta look at the upside there.

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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Anybody notice the graphic on the front page says "nice pipe or crack pipe"? Yes, I read that thing...
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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Crackpipe, or some serious other shit.

    If it was a Turboner than it would be a different thing.


    Or an Alpine Turbo 1 could be acceptable.

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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    If there was an R in front of the model "5," I'd say great price. But I have to pass on this one.


    As a car guy I really can appreciate anything rare or preserved like this, so I feel bad voting for Booth 2, but it just ain't worth that much.

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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say NIce Price. As Murilee so presciently observed, there's not a lot of R5s still slowly trolling the highways and byways of this great land of ours.


    This one has the big-ass sunroof, it's in nice shape, and it has red carpet. Red carpet! You can still get parts for them pretty easily (thank you Internet) and they're fun to cruise around in, in a wallowy kind of way.

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    12/16/08

    @graverobber- Facebook 'em Danno: Mooooom! Graverobber is doing crack again!!!
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    12/16/08

    @ciscokidinsf: Hey, what I do on my own time is my business. Got that?!
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    12/16/08

    @graverobber- Facebook 'em Danno: This is your wallet. This is your wallet after the R5.

    Dude, there's a reason there are hardly any left. They were cheap POS voitures.
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    12/16/08

    @NovaloadMissesPolar: Ah, but so was the deux chevaux in its day. Fiat 500? Isetta? All crappy entry-level boxes that today command big money due to their quirkiness and scarcity.
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    12/16/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?
    My mother had one when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I remember trying to squeeze 5 kids and 2 adults into into it. Boy was that fun. The canvas roof was pure heaven to boot. Anyway, I can't remember more than a year or two of ownership. I wonder what happened to it? Oh yeah, my mother probably came to her senses... CRACK PIPE!
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