Renault 1929 RY1 Monasix

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Hi John

The body frame is 99% completed but still under wraps. I can tell you it will be a two seater with a skiff (boat) tail. It will have a door on the passenger side and the spare wheel mounted under the drivers elbow. It will be painted traditional late 1920s Renault "Paris Taxi" two tone green. I have a more or less complete dash with French (metric) instruments. It will have a Vee windscreen "London Tan" upholstery unles I can find some suitably "French" period tapestry (Cloth) for the seats. Tonneau cover will be beige "Salt & Pepper" cloth. 

Renault supplied virtually all the cars for Taxis in Paris making a purpose built variation on the Monasix chassis.

Bernie j.

8-1-2015

Funny how little things keep popping up to stymie my thoughts. I had more or less decided that a Vee windscreen would be "just right" when I remembered that the petrol filler cap lives under a pop-up vent in the center of the scuttle. So it is back to the drawing board. Looking for a solution for mounting a fold flat full width screen, the answer to this may have been under my nose all the time, in the form of the original ex saloon (top hinged) screen.

Only time will tell.

Bj.

8-3-2015

Strange things still happen.

I have just received an e-mail from a lady in the Czech Republic asking for information about "Tiny Tot" a 1929 Singer Junior that I restored in 1997.

Bj.

8-6-2015

The "professionals" working in spacious fully equipped workshops may find it hard to believe that I spent the best part of yesterday getting the (only) door in the Renaults new body fitting correctly with the gaps properly matching. Slowly but surely the frame is reaching completion with only things such as the spare wheel (side) mounting point to be completed. Next step will be to order the alunimiun sheet but I do not want to do that until I am ready to start on the panels. They are big sheets 1200mm X 3600 mm X 1.6mm and difficult to handle on my own and can easily be damaged. They will have to be stored in the carport standing on their edge next to the Lagonda so a certain amount of care is required.

Just spare a thought, it is now mid-winter in Australia and I am working for the most part in a single car garage with the door open or out in the open when more space is needed. When It rains too heavily I have water running in under the back door and out the front.

I could work in the carport but I would then have to move the Lagonda and Helen's VW out. My trusty Peugeot lives out in the open 24/7.

Bj.