La Laranja Mecânica 2003
During my visit to Portugal in June 2003 I met up with two of this site's biggest contributors - João Seabra and Fernando Palma, as detailed in the previous story in this section. I only saw João's white R4 at the time, since he was keeping his special project under wraps. He presented me with a CDROM containing dozens of early pictures of the restoration of his other 1973 Renault 4LC. A second CD arrived in the post later in the year with the remainder. All the actual restoration photos can be found in the 'technique' section (article number TQ8). Also amongst the many images were plenty taken during the car's travels, both before and after its transformation, which I have collected together. There's too many (nearly 100!) to put in a gallery entry so they get their own corner of the site here instead. See also the star car page in the gallery (SC18) for more about this tangerine dream.
These two pictures show the car in its original state after João bought it.
Pictured here with Lisbon's famous suspension bridge over
the River Tagus in the background.
