1968 ALPINE A110 1300G "customer competition - Lot 253

1968 ALPINE A110 1300G "customer competition Type A110 1300VA Coupe bodywork 10670 series 2013 bodywork alpine blue metallic put into service on August 22, 1968 standard French registration This 1300VA berlinette (type 1300 Gordini) left the factory on July 23, 1968, serial number 10670 and body 2013. This was the 14th model to be produced with the "second-generation" body, featuring a number of modifications made to rationalize production and, above all, to improve the car's watertightness, which was not its strong point... this second body model lasted until 1973. It was delivered via Garage Nicolas in Marseille, run by Jean Pierre's father, an official Alpine driver, to Mr. PREBOIS Bernard of Arles, an ambulance driver by profession, who registered it 1989 DL 13. The net purchase price was 33,334 francs, i.e. 10,000 francs more than a production 1300G, 6,000 more than a 1300S and hardly less than the "factory 1300" version sold for 34,348 francs... With the statements of one of the former owners indicating that it did indeed have a central tank and a light body, the current presence of the period plexiglass windows and pierced door hinges, given the price paid by M. Prébois, we can assume that it was indeed a 1300 "customer competition" based on a 1300G and not a 1300S, equipped with a 1255cc G engine and not the 1296cc S. Mr. Prébois also entered the Ronde des Maures and the Rallye des Roses in 1969, two important events in the calendar of the many automobile competitions in the South of France. He sold the berlinette on April 12, 1970 to Monsieur Dumas Jean Pierre of Meung sur Loire in the Loiret region, and it was registered 633 QA 45 on September 2, 1970. It has not been determined whether it was raced. A few years later, the berlinette reappeared in the Val d'Oise under number 3019 QW 95 in February 1974. In October 1974, it was sold in Calvados to Jean Pierre Fremin (3199 QR 27), who would take up hill-climbing. In December 1975, Fremin, a mechanic officer, moved to Pont Audemer in the Eure region and registered the car 3199 QR 27. At the end of 1977, the car passed into the hands of Hervé Morin from Bouzeville, still in the Eure region, who installed flat "pagoda" wings and also raced the car. Both are members of Team Minard, along with a number of local private pilots. Finally, it was Jean Paul Campion from Pont Audemer in Upper Normandy who bought it in 1984 and registered it 2057 MC 76. For 3 seasons, the driver and engine builder would compete in hill climbs, rallies and slaloms with this berlinetta equipped with a 1296c, then a 1397cc, and finally a custom-built supercharger... Campion scored a number of podiums and group victories up to 1987: Dieppe rally, Côte Fleurie, Jeanne d'Arc, Touquet, ronde Luronne, Bayonne etc. His career is recounted on page 172 of Enguerrand Lecesne's book "Alpine Berlinette l'icône des années bleues". In April 1988, he sold it in Eastern France to buy a GT Turbo to race in the Coupe! It was in Eastern France that the current owner bought the car in February 1990. He himself raced in France and Spain for several decades. The berlinette was then fitted with an engine based on a 1600 R12G, an 1860cc Carcreff according to his children. However, this engine was installed without any modifications to the chassis. A Gordini 1300 engine from a Matra Djet, with exhaust pipe and Matra aluminum crankcase, is supplied with the car for sale as a return to the original. The berlinette is fitted with a 6-point roll bar and a small-capacity aluminum fuel tank: the central tank has disappeared, but the side hatch remains. The fenders are still the "pagoda" model installed by Morin, with wide Targa rims and a removable rear skirt. The identification plates are present, original and fixed with Alpine rivets. For a Group F car, it hasn't been butchered, but has undergone the modifications of racing at the time. It is also fitted with large front and rear brakes and Koni shock absorbers. Like the 1600S from the same collection, it is fitted with a large, reinforced 364 gearbox, which is not, however, compatible with a 1300 engine. This berlinette has been around for almost all of its life. Well-maintained, but with an eye to competition, it deserves to regain its bodywork, small fenders and Gordini engine. The work, however, will be carried out on a "competition customer", a rare model with a long history in competition.