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1902 Renault 8hp Type G Two-Seater

United Kingdom • 4 Nov 2011

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This 1902 Renault 8hp Type G Two-Seater, chassis number 187 and engine number 9737, features a De Dion engine. It was previously owned by the Stevens Institute in the USA as an engineering study, restored by John Caperton, and has a history in rallies. The car is eligible for the London-Brighton Run and has successfully completed the last ten runs.

Condition

7

The car has been restored by noted car restorer, John Caperton of Louisville, Kentucky, who fully restored both the mechanicals and the body, and used the car on rallies in the USA. The car has been professionally maintained to a high standard. The car appears to be to original mechanical specification in all major respects and has Renault's trademark twin, side-mounted, gilled tube radiators, while the two-seater coachwork is in the style of the period.

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Reg Number:

BS 8336

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RHD

Founded in 1898 by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand, the company that would become France's biggest automobile manufacturer started humbly enough, with a solitary 1¾hp De Dion-engined prototype, the sprung rear axle of which would soon be copied by many contemporaries.

At a time when automobile design had yet to crystallise, Renault's front-engined, rear-drive design presaged that of the modern car, while other advanced features included wire-spoked wheels shod with the newly invented Dunlop inflatable tyre.

Few changes were found necessary before the Type A was ready for presentation to the public in 1899.

Production at the Billancourt factory was soon under way on a large scale, demand for its products being enhanced by the performance of Renault cars in the great inter-city races so popular in France at the turn of the 19th Century.

The single-cylinder Renault was updated annually, the Type G of 1902 featuring an 864cc water-cooled De Dion motor rated at 6hp.

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