Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby Alpine Tom » Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:46 pm

Nice to see a Le Mans not far from me

I thought/thinking about selling mine to fund a restoration, I can't see the crossmember surviving plus some other rust underneath could be a worry, what does anyone make of the rust at the rear end of the central tunnel in the video?

I'm guessing £7000 at auction, £5000 engine, £5000 structural £2000 electrical gremlins and connections cleaning and then you may have an MOT'able car in need of paint and cosmetic tlc

Good luck it will keep someone entertained that's for sure
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby johnb » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:10 pm

BIG_MVS wrote:I reckon £20k to restore that.

£5k Paint
£5k Engine rebuild
£10k chassis, suspension, interior, replacement lights, trim, pipework etc etc etc


I reckon that's about right on the basis that the buyer does all the work themselves except for the re-spray and any chassis rot repairs.
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby Custard » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:45 pm

As I have said before if you spend out on this car when it is done you will not drive it I bet more than 100/200 miles a year it will look like new, you won't want to get it wet or muddy.
If like me you love the look and you want to have fun and drive it and not worry and have a good engine with some grunt, better of building one.
If anyone is interested I have enjoyed doing it, and I may do anther one if the price is right.
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby mettersl » Sat Sep 09, 2017 3:59 pm

Well,
As I'm coming to the end of an Atmo rebuild I could depress myself by adding it all up, but I won't.
I started with a car with a rebuilt engine, low use interior, bad paint and rust..at the front, but a sound rear end. The interior was pretty good once cleaned, so aside of headlining and electric windows overhaul, that's been all inside.
With Clee doing the strip down, then paint and the major reassembly I'm in the 13- 15k region just now including the car purchase. Even my fasteners miscellaneous bits bill is heading into 400 plus.
It already had an engine rebuild and isn't a turbo so fewer engine components to go wrong and no PI. I have done quite a bit of the detailed reassembly after the major components refit myself.
This isn't a game for you if you want profits, but if you want a sound Le Mans, this one is probabably as good as any that hasn't been rebuilt. Many of the tidy cars have cross member issues hiding, plus as Stephen says, where is the other one to buy?
I'd imagine that Custards Le Mans recreation will have cost quite a bit in the end despite a skilled guy doing all the work himself.
Will be fun watching this one, there is something very appealing about a barn find isn't there...
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby Custard » Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:46 pm

Lee I gave up along time ago keeping count of every nut and bolt as it gets frightening. Just looked at the vid there is osmosis all over the car even on the rear spoiler, that is not funny, it is very hard to eradicate as moisture has got into the porous parts of the layers and just reappears with hot and cold, even after a paint job 10 mouths later it can just reappear. It must have been in a very damp place shame.
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby darrenbiggs » Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:04 pm

Hmmm that'll be tricky then. I remember Paul Sage had the blue breaker out the front of his workshop for ages and he was deliberately trying to 'grow' osmosis on one of the door panels in an attempt to work out how it developed.

Kind of like an Alpine version of a Body Farm. :wtf
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby rupert » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:07 pm

I should get it just for the bloody wheel centre caps.....! ;)
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby phildini » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:09 am

I am bidding!!
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby andy_73 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:38 pm

Hello,

Sorry but there was a listing error that meant only people in the UK could bid.

After been on the phone with ebay to resolve this, they said the only way to fix this was to relist it.

Sincere apologies for this,

New link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/152698564136?

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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby Custard » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:11 am

Amazing looks like it will be reunited with its country of creation vive La France.
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby Simon_Wej » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:11 am

Bidding now at £13,200 and reserve not met.....with full blown restoration costs looking in the £20-25K mark (and we all know what happens to initial estimates), that's getting into crazy money territory :thinking . I know it's a lovely rare beast but....really?
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby mettersl » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:06 am

Hope it's real bidding, not dreamers...unfortunately the reserve has clearly been set based on some of the earlier comments on value.
One or two 610s have made 25k plus, Le Mans...it's hard to value...for me less than 610, but they are rarer and pretty, so others will see it differently.
Knowing the real costs of restoration from current experience, if it sells for 15k plus, we are looking at a 35-40k car, if the owner has it restored commercially, that's labour of love at that cost.
I'd rather build a 610 evolution replica and keep the change.
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby Custard » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:51 am

I recon someone was trying to seal the deal out of auction so the reserve has been set at that amount, if it doesn't mack it that person gets it or has to pay more, don't forget it is a sale due to bereavement.
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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby BIG_MVS » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:21 am

This is marvellous (rubs his hands together).

Well commensurate with the bidding and value of this I have advertised my A610:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds ... hd/7753346

The phone (as Mike Brewer would say) should ring off the hook!

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Re: Renault Alpine Le Mans (Right Hand Drive)

Postby BobFromNorway » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:40 am

By 'eck lad, there's some fishy bidding on that auction...........
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