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Solved - NEH 5081: Renault Alpine GTA proposal
« on: January 18, 2017, 06:55:20 AM »
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Re: NEH 5081
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2017, 07:13:45 AM »
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Re: NEH 5081
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2017, 07:17:33 AM »
It certainly looks like a Renault Fuego or Alpine prototype model, though in my searches I haven't been able to find this or any image of it so far...
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Re: NEH 5081
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2017, 07:22:30 AM »
I have just now found this same imaged referred to as "Alpine A610 prototype" on a notoriously unreliable (but chock-full of pictures of rare cars) social network
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Re: NEH 5081
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2017, 07:32:12 AM »
I have just now found this same imaged referred to as "Alpine A610 prototype" on a notoriously unreliable (but chock-full of pictures of rare cars) social network

Yes.  I've written it down as "Alpine A610 proposal" rather than a prototype, which infers that such a car was actually built whilst the picture is clearly a scale model!
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Re: NEH 5081
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2017, 07:34:00 AM »
I found a thread to follow and now I've been able to locate the image in several websites. The general agreement seems to be that this was an early Alpine GTA proposal.
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Re: NEH 5081
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2017, 08:08:02 AM »
I found a thread to follow and now I've been able to locate the image in several websites. The general agreement seems to be that this was an early Alpine GTA proposal.
This same photograph appeared in the specialist French Alpine magazine 'Mille Milles' some years ago, and it is an Alpine GTA proposal, not the later A610 facelift.
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Re: Solved - NEH 5081: Renault Alpine A610 proposal
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2017, 09:11:08 AM »
OK thanks.
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