Renault 1929 RY1 Monasix

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Hello John

With the amount of money I have poured into this project so far with little or nothing to show for it, I am hoping that the engine will require little more than a freshen up. Valve grind, and new piston rings etc. Perhaps a cam grind and a modest raise in compression. It comes from a farm in the south east of France in the Drone Region. Knowing the reputation of French farmers it could be anything. At least it is complete and comes with the strange Renault designed carburettor and the Paris-Rhone Dyna-start. Jean-Paul who has been looking after the French end of the Transport, collecting the engine cleaning it and packing it has had a look at and has not found anything calamatis! Hopefully in complete contrast to the load of rusty rubbish from New Zealand it will be OK.

I will know a whole lot more in about two weeks time. Meanwhile I collected the five wheels with their new rims welded in place this afternoon. I should be able to give them their first coat of paint over the next two or three days. A lovely dark green is the colour. 

As I have never seen one up close the carburettor looks like a "treat waiting discovery" one word that could describe it from the drawing is "complicated". Again all will be revealed in about two weeks time.

Having collected the 5 Michelin Disk wheels yesterday from the wheel works where they have all had new 18 inch rolled edge, well base rims fitted. I previously had a mixture of beaded edge (clincher) and well base rims. Now I have a set of matching wheels. Funny thing about the colour,but it seems that green is a re-occuring colour of choice for wheels on my cars. Renault supplied a huge number of cars to the principle Taxi operator in Paris during the 1920s. They were all painted two tone green. OK! Bugattis were painted blue but they came from Alcase in the Lorraine and Ettore Bugatti was born in Italy. I just happen to have a thing about green wheels. I promise that I will not paint the car white. No, not even Ivory, but that is still a little way off.