The only surviving Renault Primaquatre Saprar?

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In January last year work was started on this very special 1938 Renault Primaquatre; and now click the mainphoto for today's appearance. The attractive sporty roadster is a - don't stumble over the words - 1938/9 Renault Saprar Sport Roadster by Pourtout. As we picked up from wikipedia a mere 10 units were made. The Peugeot Darl'mat - also by Poutout - came in an 'abundancy' of 105 units and many of those survived or were replicated. Not so with the Saprar (Société Anonyme Pièces Réparations Accessoires Renault). It is our impression Saprar not only provided materials and parts for these cars yet also did market them. Like they did with the Juvaquatre Saprar convertible 

We see from the restoration that the current owner likes to wink in the direction of Darl'mat, at least that's what we think judging the Darl'mat like buttons on the side of the hood.... Anyway we started to wonder how many of the 10 survived. Except for the the car depicted here we only found period photos. So Saprar owners - also of all other Saprar models tread forward out from your barnes and into the light.

(color photos Jorge Agero)

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