With the iconic car parked outside Wexford Arts Centre, this pit stop will be an opportunity to hear more about the origins of this joint adventure which started last year when Liliane fixed her late father’s Renault 4 with the help of friends mechanics in her hometown in Haute-Savoie. Once the car was roadworthy, ‘rodée’, Liliane and Ingrid live streamed their journey from the Renault 4 while driving across France and up through Ireland for Beep Beep, a major installation by Puthod curated by Temple Bar Gallery and Studios off-site at the Graving Docks, Dublin Port. 

During this monumental journey, just as the car reached Cherbourg, a crucial component for rotating the serpentine belt for cooling the engine snapped 200 meters from the ferry. As a queue formed to board the ferry, mechanics and aficionados stopped to lend advice and practical help and on the other side, at a Daybreak petrol station in Rosslare, Paddy and Big Mick Hennessey diagnosed the issue and called local Renault 4 expert Michael Rice who miraculously fixed the part the following day and got the car back on the road. Michael was also able to identify and fix a slight warp in the door that was letting in the rain. At one time, Michael Rice had six speakers in his own Renault 4 which he installed himself. Legend. 

Wexford is a key location in this touring as hundreds of local labour assembled imported Completely Knocked Down(CKD) Renault 4s until the last car made in 1992. Arising from high import taxes during the 70s, the car was made in Billancourt, France and shipped in parts to Wexford, Ireland, where it was reassembled by local labour.