A610 and GTA Turbo in auction 7th December

[johnb]

At the Warwickshire Event Centre this Saturday, lots 598 and 623. The A610 looks familiar.

https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/cc ... ots/pn/all

A tad worrying but they got the A610 engine capacity wrong in line one of the advert...
Offered for sale is a 2.7L 1994 Renault-Alpine A610 manual
Since when did an A610 have a 2.7L engine...unless they were getting it mixed up with a 2.7 L A310....Hmmmmm!

[mettersl]

Anyone know these cars?

[stephendell]

Think the GTA is the ex Roux & Vince turbo and the A610 is definitely Richard Dredge's the one that failed to sell at the NEC in November.

I hope to be at the auction if anyone wants to say hello. Entry is only £5

Yes. Vince's old GTA and Richard's A610
Both fully restored by RATS. GTA had a full engine rebuild and is running higher lift cams so could be tweaked to 250bhp.
GTA has had all rot attended to including front crossmember.
Richards is std with loads of new parts and hardly used sine I restored it. It had the usual A610 sill/footwell rot.
I've lots of pictures of both before ,during and after.

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[johnb]

Neither car reached their reserves during the auction.
The A610 went to £17900.00 (I think it was) against an estimated range of £19000.00 to £23000.00.
The GTA went to £8200.00 against an estimated range of £12000.00 to £15000.00.

[stephendell]

Bidding stopped at £17k for the A610 exactly the same as at the NEC auction. It’s a very presentable car.

The GTA needs some cosmetic tidying (indicators, windscreen. paint) which might help it reach £10k.

I understand that some auction contracts allow the auction house to still sell your car at reserve (minus a small percentage) for 2-3 weeks after the actual auction date. Sellers will know this for sure though.

[johnb]

That’s what CCA are doing basically. Asking £12650 for the GTA and £21275 for the A610.