'57 Alpine Renault A106.
I have no idea if the price is good or bad, but it's got a pretty neat shape to it.
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Jan. 5, 2012 7:14 a.m. bravenrace SuperDork
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Jan. 5, 2012 8:47 a.m. bravenrace SuperDork
In reply to bravenrace:
Two and a half hours and nobody has replied? Am I the only one who sees mucho potential in this car? I'm thinking scrap the frame (if there is one) and drivetrain, and put the body on something like a Miata.
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Jan. 5, 2012 9:05 a.m. DaewooOfDeath HalfDork
That thing looks friggin awesome! Granted, I wouldn't want to be the guy hunting down 1957 Renault speedometer gears, but as a resto mod or the base of something nutty, that would be pretty much perfect.
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Jan. 5, 2012 9:18 a.m. ditchdigger Dork
That thing is very relavant to my interests.
But those sideways beetle tail lights have to go.
I am all for creative repurposing of parts but when an item is so recognizeable as that, turning them sideways just makes it look goofy and halfassed.
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Jan. 5, 2012 9:24 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
$3k and 5 days to go is why I don't see this stuff. Too rare, too pricey to do what I would do to it.
Dan
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Jan. 5, 2012 9:29 a.m. MG Bryan HalfDork
There were only about 150 of those made between '55 and '61 and they only was about 1100 pounds.
Alpines are beyond cool.
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Jan. 5, 2012 10:05 a.m. Twin_Cam SuperDork
It looks like a Renault Beetle.
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Jan. 5, 2012 10:31 a.m. ditchdigger Dork
The Renault beetle designation goes to the 4CV
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Jan. 5, 2012 10:39 a.m. ransom Dork
In reply to ditchdigger:
Are you sure the 4CV isn't a Renault Minor?
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Jan. 5, 2012 10:39 a.m. Graefin10 HalfDork
That's a great looking little car. I've never heard of that one before. I think I'd rather see it restored to near original.
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Jan. 5, 2012 10:45 a.m. MG Bryan HalfDork
Graefin10 wrote:
That's a great looking little car. I've never heard of that one before. I think I'd rather see it restored to near original.
I should think that it would relatively easy as far as low volume specialty cars go. It's more or less a pretty fiberglass body and a lot of Renault parts.
I'd think the most sympathetic and cost effective use would be rallying. That is what Rédélé created it for after all.
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Jan. 5, 2012 12:24 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork
MG Bryan wrote:
Either the driver is really big, or the car is really small.
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Jan. 5, 2012 1:11 p.m. oldeskewltoy HalfDork
looks like a crappy porsche replicar.....
or maybe a porsche that has been hit repeatedly with an ugly stick
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Jan. 5, 2012 1:39 p.m. ScottRA21 Reader
oldeskewltoy wrote:
looks like a crappy porsche replicar.....
or maybe a porsche that has been hit repeatedly with an ugly stick
Hunh...
I looks better to me than any Porsche I've ever seen short of the Carrera GT. Course....I don't like the look of Porsches.
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Jan. 5, 2012 2:25 p.m. SlickDizzy SuperDork
stuart in mn wrote:
Either the driver is really big, or the car is really small.
At 1100lbs, probably the latter...I betcha anything those wheels are no bigger than 13 inches!
Look how much smaller it is than the Renault 5! I think to accost it as an ugly Porsche knockoff is kind of missing the point...
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Jan. 5, 2012 2:35 p.m. MG Bryan HalfDork
SlickDizzy wrote:
stuart in mn wrote:
Either the driver is really big, or the car is really small.
At 1100lbs, probably the latter...I betcha anything those wheels are no bigger than 13 inches!
Look how much smaller it is than the Renault 5! I think to accost it as an ugly Porsche knockoff is kind of missing the point...
Going on memory because I'm too lazy to look at the books/magazines that would confirm it, the wheels are the same 15 inches as on a 4CV and the car is roughly 4 feet tall.
