Davidoff:
pv83:
A “heavy” pair I’ve spotted at a Daf workshop in PerpignanPatrick
Hi Patrick
Lovely motors those are.
The first one, if not modified (especially the headlights in the radiator grill) will in all likelihood be a TRH320 with Berliet’s naturally-aspirated V8. This would date her back to somewhere around 1974-1976. Very small chance she might be a straight-6 TRH280 but those were extremely rare in 6x4 execution.Second one is given away by her beige dashboard and would thus be a representative from the very early days after Berliet + Saviem became Renault Véhicules Industriels or RVI, so somewhere between 1981 and 1983. She might be a straight-6 turbocharged R310, but i presume more likely an R360 with her turbocharged V8, the direct successor to Berliet’s TRH350.
I expect John “SAVIEM” in his Renaultphile will put me right somewhere on the above…
Very, very well-kept vehicles in any case. True eye candy.
Thanks for having posted these pictures.
No worries mate, don’t know if they’re still out and about, I’ve taken the pics about 5 or 6 years ago…
I remember on a another occasion though, being saved by an “old” Berliet, this was on a steep hill at Vesoul on the RN19 coming in from Belfort, the drive shaft on the left just snapped (now that’s Scania quility for ya 
), so after ringing Scania assistence, some dodgy looking Berliet turned up, driver stepped out and asked me if I had some sort of problem… Obviously, I told him. He hooked up and his last question was what the overall weight was, told him was about 70T, and wasn’t that going to be a problem for the Berliet…? He just smiled, got in the cab, lowered his window, put his thumb up, I did the same, and… Well what happend then was just unbelieveble, I just heard the rouring of a massive V8 engine (or so I thought) and it pulled me easily up that hill and into the nearest Scania workshop. And since that day I’ve became a massive fan of the older french marques 
Only downside is that it happended all so quickly that I didn’t got the chance to make some pics… 