First generation, customized, with a reactor’fighter plane or transformed into a truck: more d’around a hundred enthusiasts proudly display their Twingos as part of’a meeting organized this Saturday and Sunday in the’Chambley-Bussières aerodrome (Meurthe-et-Moselle) in the’on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the little Renault.
117 Twingo
against’it is in a good-natured atmosphere that the owners of 117 Twingo, who were registered in the’event on Saturday at noon, reunited. These enthusiasts came from the four corners of France and even from different countries of’Europe in Lorraine to show your car and discover those of others.
Mellissa Bartoli, 36, is the president of Génération Twingo, l’organizer of the’event. She explains to the’AFP that’she does not “(see) herself in another vehicle”‘a Twingo, which’he knew it from the first model, in 1993, when his mother was looking for a new vehicle after the birth of her sister. In addition, she “has a good face”, with her round headlights, she smiles.
Jean-Michel Sauvage came from Brittany with his partner Fabienne. Both proudly show off their Twingo transformed into an apple green pick-up and stretched out in this 40 cm frame. “vs’it is a car that’It took almost a year to transform it. I am not a bodybuilder by trade, I’I did what I’Could’I took my time,” he explains. Car lovers, four more Twingos await you in his garage.
Prêts à tout pour continuer de rouler avec leur vehicule adoré, ils pourraient la transformer en électrique si cela était la seule solution compte-tenu des nouvelles normes environnementales et de la mise en place des ZFE, les zones à faibles émissions dans les grandes villes de France.
the Frog’turn on
When’came out in 1993, the Twingo was said to’he looked like a frog, a nickname that stuck with her. So Michael customized his in particular by painting it so that’She looks exactly like the’amphibious… Taking care of every detail: frogs slide into the headlights.
The highlight of the show, especially for the visitors, came shortly before 3pm on Saturday, when professional racer Pascal Dragotto gave a Dragstar demo: the little city car spit fire and smoke through the’behind, a noise similar to that of’a plane then rang in the’aerodrome.
An old woman arrived with a sign in her little Renault, which’she wanted to sell. “No, you have to keep it!” Several lovers of this car responded.
If the second and third generations of the Twingo had more mixed success than the first, Renault s’about to finish the production of this model that’will have no successor. It is still marketed in gasoline and electric versions.
Source: BFM TV
