Renault Trike With Opel Trailer Is The Wackiest Thing On Craigslist

"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo) 12/19/2014 at 12:02 • Filed to: Blog, Daily Turismo, Renault

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I'm going to put this out here: this ride is the perfect family vehicle. As a man (or woman) with a few kids you still want to enjoy a thrilling ride, but need to sporadically haul around a bunch of screaming brats.

Before you hit the little x on the corner of the browser window, let me explain how this car is perfect for the family man car. I'm not talking about Duggar levels of kids, but this combo is perfect for someone with 3-5 kids. First, you've got the front trike, which is where you will ride, enjoying the pleasant breeze and wind noise isolating you from any drama from the back seat. Second, you've got the rear section that can be used to haul additional kids (friends, family, dogs, drugs, et cetera) when needed. It is perfect combination of performance, style, and flexibility.

Find this 1970 Custom Renault Trike with Opel trailer offered !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for $3,500 located in Daytona Beach, FL. (The seller mentions that the front section is from a Renault (probably an 8) and the rear looks like an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ).

The front section consists of a motorcycle front wheel attached to a Renault 8 rear section. The 1-ish liter Renault inline-4 mounted out the back is good for something in the realm of 50 horsepower and should be capable of pulling the Opel Kadett trailer to freeway speeds if there isn't too much of a headwind.

If you are heading to work, just take the front trike section and leave the Kadett rear section at home. But, if you need to pickup a load of bricks from the Lows Despot or take the little rug rats to their Brazilian Jujitsu classes, just hook up that rear section and go to town. Just be sure to check the legality of passengers in a trailer section of a moving vehicle for your local, because I'm not sure if that is legal anywhere.

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505Turbeaux > DailyTurismo 12/19/2014 at 12:04

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I am in love

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > DailyTurismo 12/19/2014 at 12:05

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Wow, I want this. Not too far from me either...

fawgcutter > DailyTurismo 12/19/2014 at 12:07

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Am I seeing Ford Pinto taillights on the trike?

With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username > fawgcutter 12/19/2014 at 12:10

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I'm seeing them, whether they're there or not.

Alfalfa > DailyTurismo 12/19/2014 at 12:11

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Yep, I need this. Badly.

DailyTurismo > fawgcutter 12/19/2014 at 12:48

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I'm beginning to wonder if a Renault 8 wasn't involving in this monster...

Jonee > DailyTurismo 12/19/2014 at 13:40

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Um, this is amazing. Whoever constructed this is my kind of mad scientist.

DailyTurismo > Jonee 12/19/2014 at 14:11

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Did you look at the inside of the "camper?" The TV is a nice touch.

Jonee > DailyTurismo 12/19/2014 at 14:16

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Flip the seat back up and it's the world's smallest mobile movie theater. Although, I'm betting that's a b&w t.v.

T off the New > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 09:36

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Nice deflated tires for sale

DMCVegas > T off the New 12/22/2014 at 09:54

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I just had flashbacks from a used car lot in North Las Vegas back in the late 90's...

I'm driving by and see a gullwing. Turns out it was a Bradley GT II kit car. The salesman is this raggedy Jamaican guy who proceeds to tell me about how great the car runs and how fast it is. I ask him when was the last time it ran? He says that he drove it just last night. Really? But it has 4 flat tires. And I shit you not, the guy looks me dead in the eye and proudly proclaims:

"All me best cars got flat tires! It keeps de 'tieves from stealin' 'em!"

Schep9d > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 09:55

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Nice price. I would take this over that 3 grand Yugo any day.

T off the New > DMCVegas 12/22/2014 at 09:57

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haha..seems legit

onhold > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 10:18

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It's down to $2,500 now...you must have given it the Jalop-bump (downward).

Fuel_of_Satan > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 10:29

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This should be fun to maintain, did they sell either of those two vehicles in the US originally? The interior is ghetto-fabulous though, 10/10 would rock.

tapzz > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 10:55

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I'm guessing that the R8 and Opel Kadett were not originally sold in the States, which suggests that the story of how this comical duo ended up in Florida is probably at least as interesting as story of its creation...

Kaufmania: Mark Webber's Stunt Double > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 11:02

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nice price!

DailyTurismo > tapzz 12/22/2014 at 12:21

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The Renault R8 and Opel Kadett where both imported to the USA back in the day, not in huge numbers, but enough that you can find them around. The Kadett was sold at select Buick dealers.

DailyTurismo > Fuel_of_Satan 12/22/2014 at 12:23

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I know the Kadett was sold through Buick dealers around the US and the R8s made it here somehow as well.

tapzz > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 12:36

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Wow! I thought Renault was pretty much done between the less than ideal reception the Dauphine got in the early '60s and the tie-up with a dying AMC in the '80s.

I knew Opels were sold through Buick, but I thought it was mostly limited to Mantas.

ccc40821 > Fuel_of_Satan 12/22/2014 at 17:19

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Renaults were used by the Danish postal service for years, which is as about as hard a way there is test a vehicle, short of Paris-Dakar racing and/or Middle East warfare. The running gear and the engines were great, but the bodies tended to rust out quickly.

Jugstopper > DailyTurismo 12/22/2014 at 22:09

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"I'm not talking about Duggar levels of kids"

In India, they would get at least one Dugger of kids (a new unit of measure I just invented) into this thing.

Jugstopper > T off the New 12/22/2014 at 22:10

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That makes it handle better in the snow.

DailyTurismo > Jugstopper 12/22/2014 at 23:29

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This is the best new unit I've heard about. "When I was done rebuilding the engine, I had a duggar of mystery bolts left over. Not good."