A new serie of pages... Eric Gengembre starts it with the restoration of an Alpine A108. With many pics, he presents us the long work. Let's listen him :

"I bought this Alpine a day of june. Whitout a long investigation, we can see that this Alpine has got a hard life with many amateur rally drivers.

The worst problem is the rear body part, an Alpine A110 one ! The first work was to re-open the cool water wisp, a typical characteristic of Alpine A108.

An important work has to be done..

An other surprise, the original engine was replaced by a Renault 12 one, all windows , the electric system are dismounted.

The car has crashed too. A complete refection of the chassis is needed. All chassis parts were prepared and cleaned with sand. Only the central part of the body was saved. All the parts were painted with epoxy paint.

In the same time, I had to look for many specific parts, an engine founded in Auvergne area, new seats in the North, and many others parts in Netherland and Germany..

The body restoration was started too. The A110 rear part was cut.

After these unpleased stages, the better one started ! I began to rebuild the chassis... and the engine.

For the body, after many reflexions, he diceided to rebuild a new one.

Mr Paquot had created a matrix from an other Alpine A108, a very long work, with many preparations. But the result was splendid.

After the ounce of the body, it has been paste to the chassis.

Today, the body is ready for a new paint."

If you want to contact Eric, to ask him some questions ans send him some remarks, please to contact him by email : eric.gengembre@wanadoo.fr
Sure, he will help us to finish this page ans will show us soon the final resulta of this restoration.