Here's Harvey!

pepper · May 8, 2016

Harvey looks unmolested but it's going to have me fiddling with it

pepper · Apr 15, 2019

Well I’ve been slowly working my way around Harvey, it now has an mot, and I’m running it round locally to get it used to being run again after years off the road.

pepper · Apr 15, 2019

mojobaby · Apr 16, 2019

Well done Pepper! What a huge difference

Dogs look pretty happy too!

The chrome piece around your rear number plate is the finishing touch

reidalpine · Apr 16, 2019

I see you've Finally grown a proper moustache pepper..... and the right Beige color too -Reid.

pepper · Apr 16, 2019

The moustache, came with the car, somewhere down the line it’s picked up a lot of nice bits, like the rear windows that open.

Thank you everyone for the kind words, it’s actually very scruffy, which is how I like my cars, otherwise I’d never use them.

But as dog transport with its super heater I can’t wait till winter again.

Cornish4 · Apr 16, 2019

Quite agree pepper, scruffy is good, otherwise we can be too precious about the paintwork etc. I'm not scared to drive mine in the rain or park her in Sainsburys car park. The 4 was designed as an everyday car. The moustache looks great.
Cheers Brian.

pepper · Sep 10, 2019

Well had a bit of an issue with Harvey this week, came home with Judith and it started spluttering and misfiring, my immediate thought was fuel, as the tank is a little grungy so whipped the carb top off cleaned all the jets and orifices to no avail, still not right. Checked ignition, points seemed clean. But tidied them up and gapped them, better but still not right, so swapped coil for a spare, no difference. So swapped complete distributor as I didn’t have a spare set of points and the dizzies are different. Wallah back as smooth as a button. Driving beautifully again.

I should be ready now for the drive up to Derby with the Renault owners club on Sunday.

pepper · Mar 28, 2023

Hello all, long time no chat on here, I really ought to check in more often. I've been getting Harvey welded up a little this week as the rear wing mounts had got really crusty.

jjad · Mar 28, 2023

Great work Pepper! :clapping:

pepper · Mar 29, 2023

jjad said:
Great work Pepper!

Not me, I sent it to a girl locally to help me out as it was too far gone for me to contend with.

pepper · Mar 29, 2023

Ok an update for today's work

malcolm · Mar 30, 2023

Those repairs look really good. Rust above the rear wings is a pain and it's not often you see it done properly like that.

pepper · Mar 31, 2023

She's brilliant, only just learning her trade and I didn't want/need restoration standard metalworking I wanted it solid and fixed properly.

Would have cost me twice as much if I wanted it putting back as Renault intended.

She's going to do the other side in a couple of weeks as she's got a Jaguar XJ6 to work on next week.

pepper · Mar 31, 2023

Didn't get time to post up on here last night, she's now finished on this side, I'm changing the colour after this so it's just been painted in epoxy primer which is waterproof and unbelievably a near match for the paint I used 7 years ago

jjad · Mar 31, 2023

Great job. Can you reveal the mystery worker? They could become the new R4 specialist!

pepper · Mar 31, 2023

She's called Ella and works at a mainly VW restorers in Bishops Itchington, other side of Southam.

It's my friends company, he has had her working there for a couple of years.

jjad · Apr 1, 2023

Thanks Pepper. Shame: we used to live about 20 miles from Bishops Itch.

pepper · Apr 7, 2023

Well we're onto the next stage, doing the nearside left hand side.
Not quite as bad as the other side and we have a new old stock genuine wing to help align things better than the tatty second hand one I had for the other side.