wrote a letter to the person who had my car before me and asked him to e mail me back with any info or insight or other history of my car! heres what he mailed back!
HI there Paul
Im Stephen Jones I received your note today about the clio I used to own. Glad to hear it went to a good home!
I hope the garage you bought it from gave you all the history on the car because I had a massive folder full of it, Reciepts, MOTs everything.(yes i did get all the folder full of receipts etc)
This is the car history as I remember.
The car was owned by, I think, a Richard Hammersley? and it was his wifes car. He purchased it for her from new on the plate 3LOO, (this means when I went to the local renault dealer near me, I could quote that plate and the vehicle showed up on their computers much to the amazement of staff their!!).
He owned the vehicle till I purchased it, even though it says in the log book something like 4 owners. The reason for this is because he was a lawyer or account and lived in Henley-on-Thames and for some reason registered it to himself first, then transfered it to his wife then to a company name, then to a different company name, (hopefully you understand what I mean) I think he done this for tax reasons?
Anyway in all the history, this fact is all backed up in the dealer reciepts, you will see it has only ever been to 2 Renault Dealers all its life, all under the name of Mr Hammersley, if I remember correctly the first being where the car was purchased, then Mann Egerton in Reading (Reading is where his wife worked).
The car was purchased with all the tracker and alarm fitted as options at Renault and you will see in the reciepts it went in once just to have the front wiper blades replaced.
Mr Hammersley sold the car because he was buying a brand new Landrover Discovery and so the clio had to go. When I purchased the car a good friend of mine was a mechanic a a Renault Specialist (RenaultSpeed in the reciepts) he checked over the car for me and I had to buy it with the history being so concise and mechancially so well mentained. Yes it had corroded wheels and stone chips, but had been so well looked after it beat socks off all the others I had looked at.
I sold the car for two reasons
1. I have a new job which required me to drive around and had to carry a load of tools and it would of done the car no justice.
2. Im restoring a old mk1 Golf and I had to focus my attention on that rather than have 2 really cool cars!!!
Being into the car I guess you know about the Williams range and know the Williams 3 is the rarest of the whole range, and the differences? If not let us know and Ill tell you. Look after it because Im sure they will go up in value loads in the future as there a so little 3s around, it will be such a classic I wanted to keep it a drive it just a weekends because of the way it handled and the looks you got and status it had as a real cool car, but unfortunatly had no where to keep 3 cars.
Anyway hope you enjoy the car.
Regards Steve Jones
