Renault 1929 RY1 Monasix

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I must be a slow learner, it took me quite a while to work just how bad Riley's are. Most of my Rileys were late 1920s or early 1930s 9hp although I have also had a 1926 Side Valve 11 hp, a post WW2 1.5 Litre, a "Pathfinder" and a Mini based Riley Elf. You could say a reasonalbe sample.

Bj

 Re: Petanque.

Andre, one of my French friends, has sent the attached. A picture saves a thousand words!

Bon sante!

Bj

Petanque aside the Renault continues to dominate much of my time, most of today being devoted to the seat frames or more correctly the seat backs. While working on these I am having some serious rethinking about colours. The traditional 1920s Paris Taxi, two tone green really seems locked in with so much I have planned and talked about it is hard to get away from.  The other alternative being my own "team colours", Old English Ivory and Mid-Brunswick Green does not sound quite geographically right on a French car. This is something that I will have to decide about before I take the seats to be upholstered, perhaps as early as next week. What ever colour goes onto the seats will tend to dictate the colours for the rest of the car.

Bj.

10-8-2015

Meanwhile I am conserving my meagre cash supply doing lots of little  but necessary jobs. I am currently sorting out the rear floor which is fiddly and time consuming with not much to show at the end. I hope to have sufficient aluminium sheet "in stock" to do this.

Having just received the UK based "Renault Freres" membership list I now know that there are at least TWO 1927-9  Monasix in England along with one or possibly two in New Zealand, probably between 15 and 20 in France and my car all alone in Australia. The next question is how many, if any, are in the US and Canada or for that matter any other parts of the world?

Please do not all rush to answer.......

Bj.

10-9-2015

This forum is pretty much the same as home. I talk to myself for most of the time  there too. At least that way I don't get into too many arguments.

Being Friday much of today was devoted to "domestic duties" so only a little progress on the Renault floor.

I think that from the messages left on the garage floor, my possum friend has been checking out it as a possible new home. NBL!

Bj.

Hello Ben

Our little creatures are simply possums not the irish variety of O'possums that you have.

Spinneyhill,

I could never understand why you imported our Possums into NZ. certainly not as a cuddly pet and there is not much meat on them but you seem to do OK selling possum fur hats and gloves to Aussie tourists. We are such softies that ALL our native aminals are protected by law. At present Kangaroos are in plague proportions ruining crops and taking over golf courses but here in Victoria it is an offence to shoot even one. Just ten miles from the CBD we have mobs of up to 50 Kangaroos in one of our parks. With Summer approaching, when the grass supply in the parks dries up they will move into private gardens eating everything.

We have in broad terms two variety of 'Urban Possums, Ring tail and Brush tail we also have minature "Gliders" that live mainly in our mountain bush.