I think it would be nicer with chrome door handles and hub caps. I wouldn't mind taking it for a spin 
RENAULT Juvaquatre Dauphinoise - 1958...Oh no!
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I wonder how much this bluey will go for
https://www.shannons.com.au/auctions/2017-shannons-melbourne-spring-classic-auction/M9E8DPM5EFGV4M1/
Gotta love Shannons, just accepting what the vendor tells them. It is obviously a post-WW2 car, rather than their 1939 “Java 4”. If it was an E38 instead of an E49, they’d change it, otherwise the fans would crush them – anything else they seem to ignore.
A nice unsympathetic quickie refurb. Just using what was left in the gun after giving ol’mate’s ratty fibreglass pool a quick blow job with the Electrolux. And they must have also attended the Volvo school of making a car look modern, with the black paint on the window frames.
Just break out the Brillo pads, and rub the silver frost off the bumper badges, then they’ll know its proper name.
http://redirect.viglink.com/?format...www.shannons.com.au/auctions...E8DPM5EFGV4M1/
Now that Shannons have posted a whole bunch more pictures of the Blue Juva, I am of the opinion that this is not the Green Bathurst car. I've looked closely at all 20 photographs and can see nary a sign of green paint. So I guess the Juvas aren't as rare as one would have thought.
The Bathurst Juvaquatre
Now that Shannons have posted a whole bunch more pictures of the Blue Juva, I am of the opinion that this is not the Green Bathurst car. I've looked closely at all 20 photographs and can see nary a sign of green paint. So I guess the Juvas aren't as rare as one would have thought.
The Bathurst Juvaquatre
Looks like the original colour might have been light blue.
I like old Renault's in that original light blue. Be interesting to see what guiding range they come up with ...
Just two people with bad taste?
Even in that line up, imo the more muted colours seem to suit the car better.
Yes, I was referring to the powder blue dash colour which I assumed to be original. I prefer that to bathroom green anyway 
Yes, I was referring to the powder blue dash colour which I assumed to be original. I prefer that to bathroom green anyway
It really would look so much better in a circa FX Holden/A40 Devon bathroom greenesque colour
Looks like the guiding range for said Juva/Java is $6 - $9k with no reserve! All will be revealed 25/09
Does anyone have an actual reference to this matter? A couple of my o/s Renault friends don't know about it.
Any information most welcome.
Cheers
I seem to remember reading about in a Renault history book from the RCCQ library but I'm sure it would be on the WWW for which I shall mount a search. Stand by.
Gets a mention p331 here
https://books.google.com.au/books?i...nepage&q=Opel sued Renault juvaquatre&f=false
https://books.google.com.au/books?i...nepage&q=Opel sued Renault juvaquatre&f=false
Thanks for that - nice succinct account. And it was Budd that sued Renault, not Opel!
Check out this little pearler, all 79 pictures of her.
https://www.erclassics.com/classic-cars-for-sale/sold-classic-cars/renault-juvaquatre-1956-r9387/
https://www.erclassics.com/classic-cars-for-sale/sold-classic-cars/renault-juvaquatre-1956-r9387/
Love the temperature gauge! What a photoset!!
Cheers
Cheers
And the American Patent System is now well and truly broken if it wasn't then!