New pausmobiel: Renault 4 with 300,000 km on the counter

Posted on 11-09-2013 at 20:55 by robbie – 33 Comments”

As pope, you get quite a few gifts, but such a worn-out Renault 4 from 1984 is very special. Fortunately, there is a beautiful story.

This car was owned by Don Renzo Zocca, a priest from a small town in Verona for years with this car arms tried to support and resistance offered against the local mafia. The best man is now 70 and he found that it had become time to say goodbye to his Renault.

Therefore he wrote a letter to pope Francis and to his surprise, he received 25 days later, a call from the holy father. Francis wanted to know when the Renault delivered could be. The current pope has more modest cars than luxury cars.

The old Renault was then quickly completed a refit and was then by trailer to the Vatican to be transported. The nice thing is that it is also a ‘green’ car, because it runs on gas instead of petrol.

Don Renzo Zocca was so smart to get the snow chains in the back. Because imagine that the pope would have! (via: famigliacristiana.it)