La traversée de Paris

Roc · Post by **Roc** » January 17, 2011, 2:16 am

Hey folks , hello from France ...every second week end of january , you can see in Paris something called " across Paris in old cars" , you have many old differents cars crossing Paris , we took pics place de la concorde near the Champs élysées and at the chateau de Vincennes , if you want to look , you can do it here ( go directly to the second page of the topic):D
Regards.
http://forum.mustangpassion.fr/viewtopi ... 1&start=15

F7BIGJOB · Post by **F7BIGJOB** » January 17, 2011, 6:40 am

Very cool! Except for the tags, one may think that was on this side of the water.

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » January 17, 2011, 8:45 am

wow, not one but two ac cobras. great pics roc.

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » January 17, 2011, 12:35 pm

Roc.
Very cool and I'll bet you made a statement with your Slick.
However, I couldn't understand any of the comments I tried to read. LOL
U@ss

Michelle · Post by **Michelle** » January 17, 2011, 1:07 pm

They do love American iron over there don't they.

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » January 17, 2011, 1:14 pm

Michelle.
Like American iron?
Have you ever driven a Renault Dauphine?
ROTFLMAO
U@ss

ABA · Post by **ABA** » January 17, 2011, 4:02 pm

Ahh, this member must be from Southern France.

Great pics of some fine American automobiles, thanks for sharing Roc.

Obsa · Post by **Obsa** » January 17, 2011, 4:30 pm

Uncle Skip wrote:Michelle.
Like American iron?
Have you ever driven a Renault Dauphine?
ROTFLMAO
U@ss

Skip,
I have, My dad brought one home when I was 14, He got it from a coworker, basically a get it out of my yard and it is yours (did not run). He thought it would be a good summertime project for me. A basic cleaning of fuel system, file and reset points and plugs, and fresh gas, and I was on the road. In less than a week I was found out and it was gone (sold). I have not seen one on the road in years.

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » January 17, 2011, 5:01 pm

Obsa.
Colonel McAtee brought one home from France and after driving it for 6 months in beautiful south Georgia, it fried a clutch.
I offered to change it in Autoshop if he'd buy the parts. No pay.
I actually picked up the motor out of the back of the car by hand. We got it running and it was a miserable little car with no power.
The good Colonel took it to Homestead AFB while he was doing some training on a new aircraft and hit a gator at night and destroyed the car. They never found the gator.
Some of the other officers had cars from Japan called a ToyoPet that looked like a shrunken VW bug.
Talk about a blast from the past.

Michelle · Post by **Michelle** » January 17, 2011, 5:24 pm

In the mid to late sixties there were a lot of people still in the A/F that were WWII vets. We had a squadron commander that flew B 29's out of the Mariana's on bombing runs to Japan. This man had no love for anything Japanese. One day a Jap car showed in the hanger parking lot. Ole Colonel Thompson come down to the hanger wanting to know who the car belonged to, I informed him I didn't know and he asks an NCO standing about five feet from me in the break room. The NCO informed him who it belonged to and the Colonel asks for the NCO to go and get him. About two minutes later the NCO showed up with an Airman, the Airman asks the commander what's the problem. That was the wrong thing to ask. The Colonel laid down on him and told him that he could not control what he bought, but he could control where he parked it. He told him to get it out of his parking lot and never bring it back again. There was a vacant lot across the street and he had to park it over there from then on.

Post by **Greg D** » January 17, 2011, 7:03 pm

That is Cool Roc -
and good to hear from you!

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » January 17, 2011, 9:52 pm

Uncle Skip wrote:Roc.
Very cool and I'll bet you made a statement with your Slick.
However, I couldn't understand any of the comments I tried to read. LOL
U@ss

"merci pour les photos".

that was all i could gather. lol

thanks again for the pics roc.

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » January 18, 2011, 12:39 am

Sacré bleu Ezer!, you took my merci pour pic`s!, merci bocou Roc!

Roc · Post by **Roc** » January 18, 2011, 5:03 pm

thank you for these expressions of sympathy
@ABA , that's mine on the french forum

If you like the Dauphine ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfw0qXpC ... re=related
and thank you for speaking french , it's excellent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7d8DVsU ... re=related
In this french forum , we are mustang entousiasts , that's why you can see lots of american cars , but this day I ride my Harley

( thanks america to give me beautiful toys

)

Post by **Greg D** » January 18, 2011, 7:50 pm

Roc wrote: but this day I ride my Harley

What Harley do you have Roc?

Roc · Post by **Roc** » January 19, 2011, 1:35 am

Greg D wrote:
What Harley do you have Roc?

2010 Dyna street bob , fantastic motorbike , very agile and swift in the parisian traffic and very comfortable for long trip , I love it !

Greg , I know that you like Harleys , we went with familly in Sturgis this august , it was really incredible

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Truckrat · Post by **Truckrat** » January 20, 2011, 12:08 pm

My aunt had a Renault Dauphine when I was in jr high and when I was in the 10th grade I inherited that car and drove it to school for a year and a half until I fried the clutch in it. It was a 1960 model with an engine that looked like it should run a lawnmower. It probably would have lasted longer if I hadn't driven the piss out of it.
Had a lot of fun with it, but after the clutch died I traded it for a 61 Ford Starliner with a 406 and tri power. What a cool car! Should never have let that one get away. TR

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » January 20, 2011, 12:15 pm

Roc.
That is the car I worked on, except that Col. McAtee's was a '58 model.
It stayed around Turner AFB for years after that, but the various owners never drove it on the regular highway.
Skipper

Roc · Post by **Roc** » January 20, 2011, 3:46 pm

French cars of the sixties are SO diferent than yours