Update: After only 7 bids, this car sold to an experienced eBay bidder for $1501.24 on May 13, 2009. I’d be totally interested to meet someone who is nuts enough about weird cars to buy one of these.
Original Post: Many interesting old (and budget-friendly) French cars seem to be showing up this week. My only memory associated with this car is of Carlos, a Mexican playmate of mine in Montreal whose family had a rusty red one of these parked in their driveway. In itself, this is not a particularly attractive or technologically interesting car, but it wins points for the oddball factor, and I’d imagine parts are reasonably easy to come by since they were produced under license until recently. I think the only ones I’ve seen since then were either in France or the licensed Dacia version. Hey, you could win a whole cadre of Romanian friends driving this thing around!
This red R12 wagon looks in pretty remarkable shape, having been used as a towed vehicle behind a camper and even then only having 44,000 miles.
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Rusty But Trusty 