Priest gives Pope Francis his 20-year-old Renault 4 The elderly priest was amazed when the phone rang on Aug 10 and it was the pontiff on the line. "I didn't know what to say, I lost my breath," he told the magazine. The Pope pressed Fr Zocca on whether he would rather donate the car to charity, but finally accepted the gift and gave him an appointment at the Vatican. On September 7, Fr Zocca drove the Renault to the Vatican residence where the Pope lives. The Pope told the priest he used to own a Renault 4, before taking the keys and driving off, under the nervous scrutiny of his bodyguards. "The security guard standing next to me was really worried because he knew that from now on he'll be going around the Vatican in my car," Fr Zocca said. I left him some snow tyres in the boot. You never know," he added.