A resin nose in the road-car version for the Tamiya kit of the French Alpine A110 berlinetta.
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The Alpine A110 was built in coastal Dieppe from 1963 and stayed in production until the middle of the 1970s. A fiberglass body sat on a backbone chassis, the engine from Renault was mounted behind the rear axle and the whole thing weighed only a little over 700 kilograms. From that followed the car's proverbial agility on narrow roads, as well as its treachery once the driver overdid it in a corner.
This item concerns the front part in the form the customer cars had. Competition machines were recognized from a distance by the auxiliary lights set out across the nose; the production version made do with four round headlights under glazing and a smoother outline. Anyone building the car as it drove out of the gate needs exactly this shape.
In 1973 the world championship was run for the first time in the form we know today, and the manufacturers' title went to Alpine. The small berlinetta beat far more powerful rivals and made Dieppe a name that has lasted in France to this day.
The casting is seated in place of part of the original molding from the Tamiya kit, so before gluing it is right to try the fit and adjust the mating edge if needed. The transition between resin and plastic is visible under paint unless the gap is filled and sanded away to nothing.
The model benefits when the builder looks up a period photograph of a particular car. The Alpine changed in small ways over the years and the differences between model years are clearly noticeable in scale.
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