40th anniversary - Arnhem 2001: photos part D: the exhibition, the SOVAM and other pictures
sent by Martin Jonker from Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Here's a shot from the exhibition at the museum, which displayed assorted Renault 4 promotional material and advertising posters from the past few decades.

I must admit, I callously ignored this next model on my trek around the cars, thinking it was an imposter. However, Martin Jonker tells me it is a SOVAM, which was built on an R4 base and had an R4 850cc engine. It was designed by Jacques Durand in the mid 1960s for a small French company that manufactured about eighty of them, in addition to later versions which had larger engines. Other parts were taken from different cars, such as some of the body panels from the Dauphine. Martin says the model here is number 1 of the first five imported to the Netherlands, and is the only one still driving around regularly. It was a show model of the dealer until the business collapsed, and was used by a secretary for some years. There is a website that provides further details on the SOVAM (see the Other Car Sites in the Links section).