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Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby patch » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:59 am

So, came across the Ebay ad with the GTA interior and was interested to see that the seller was selling it due to stripping one down for racing.

I contacted the seller and the gentleman selling is one Alan Matthews of Auto Passion.

I'm sure many on the forum will know of this gentleman, had a long chat and he's been selling/racing/fixing Alpines for decades!

He's not on any of the forums so I took the opportunity to promote RAOC, hopefully he will join up and share his wealth of knowledge. He seemed very interested and already spoke about arranging an open day at his location in Dorset.

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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby stephendell » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:05 pm

Alan brought a 5 Turbo and GTA Le Mans to Origine RS last year. Sadly he couldn't make it this year.
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby BIG_MVS » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:06 pm

He was at Origine RS last year. I think he has a Le Mans, T2 and Spider. He sold many Alpines back in the day through his old business Eurotec. He has bought a few GTA's recently so obviously got his Alpine Mojo back again.

I don't think he impressed Phildini too much though.....

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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby patch » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:28 pm

He did mention a bit of old beef but was hoping that was water under the bridge. Very knowledgeable chap. :up
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby simontaylor » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:35 pm

patch wrote:He did mention a bit of old beef but was hoping that was water under the bridge. Very knowledgeable chap. :up


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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby phildini » Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:42 am

He's got a tendency to bid on cars and things he can't really afford and makes up stories like jackanory. I understand he was buying cars and all the spare parts from a few people above?
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby eastlmark » Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:47 am

patch wrote:So, came across the Ebay ad with the GTA interior and was interested to see that the seller was selling it due to stripping one down for racing.


http://www.autopassion.co.uk/about+auto+passion



lets hope this one makes it to the circuit......
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby Dave Williams » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:28 am

eastlmark wrote:
patch wrote:So, came across the Ebay ad with the GTA interior and was interested to see that the seller was selling it due to stripping one down for racing.


http://www.autopassion.co.uk/about+auto+passion



lets hope this one makes it to the circuit......

I can feel a one model race series coming along....

The "NotInEuropa Cup" series.
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby stephendell » Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:57 pm

phildini wrote:He's got a tendency to bid on cars and things he can't really afford and makes up stories like jackanory. I understand he was buying cars and all the spare parts from a few people above?


He offered to buy my complete collection although it came to nothing. He did mow my lawn though and let me have a go on the mower so can't be all bad lol

He did say he was going to build his own take on the Europa cup at the time so seems to be going ahead with that. Will be interesting to see how it turns out as they do some nice stuff there.
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby eastlmark » Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:48 am

stephendell wrote:
phildini wrote:He's got a tendency to bid on cars and things he can't really afford and makes up stories like jackanory. I understand he was buying cars and all the spare parts from a few people above?


He offered to buy my complete collection although it came to nothing. He did mow my lawn though and let me have a go on the mower so can't be all bad lol

He did say he was going to build his own take on the Europa cup at the time so seems to be going ahead with that. Will be interesting to see how it turns out as they do some nice stuff there.


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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby BIG_MVS » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:20 am

He was going to buy the Green GTA and a breaker from me.

I'm still waiting for my lawn to be cut....

Looking forward to what he does with the GTA racer though.
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Re: Alan Matthews - Auto Passion

Postby stephendell » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:54 am

The lawn at the old shed :weed
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