During my travels around Europe in summer 2003, I met up with some of the most dedicated followers of the Renault 4 and this site, including Fernando Palma and João Seabra - owner of a 1973 Renault 4LC, in Lisbon. I travelled around the city in both their regular cars, and further information can be found on my Interrail travel site - www.railtales.me.uk - and in a much shorter story in the 'your articles' section of this site (number YA15). However, João was keeping his special secret underwraps. He presented me with a CDROM containing over 150 photos of the restoration of his other project, the LC, many of which are shown on these pages. Since then, I received a few more odd pictures via email of the finished article, and you can find them in larger format on the people's pics page of the gallery (numbers PP118 and PP125), the star car page (number SC18), and the pets@play page in the playroom (number PE8).

In late 2003 the second instalment of the restoration pictures arrived in the post - another CD containing over 200 photos! Again many have now been added to this updated article, but I have decided to split all the non-restoration pictures and put them in a separate place - see number YA16 in the 'your articles' section for those. There are a huge number to view here, so I have grouped them into sets of ten per page. The usual rule applies regarding the annoying bug in Internet Explorer / Windows - if any photos fail to display, try clicking the back button on your browser, then the forward button to return to the page. On the second attempt, most or all of the pictures should download properly. These photos cover the period from December 2002 to August 2003. Pictures of a couple more cars treated at the same workshop in Lisbon can be found in the people's pics page of the gallery (see numbers PP121 and PP123). The photography is by João Seabra and Fernando Palma. You can contact João at jseabra@oninet.pt