 G'day folks, I'm Donald Webster and right here is my Alpine Renault A110 barrel in it Now it's Alpine not Alpine as the number plate will suggest because it's French So they don't say Alpine they say Alpine So forever in a day they have been Alpines in 1960s a chap called Jean Rédelet Who was a Frenchman who lived in a little town called Dieppe in the on the English coast He designed a little fiberglass body to fit on a Renault 4 CV Not many of you will see those cars round. They're not very many of them round today Anyway, he souped up the engine. He had a chap called Gordini do the mods on the engine And he put it in this little tiny car and off they went and they were just world beaters in their time I'm talking mid 60s here Then he wanted a bigger car and the Renault brought out the R8 Quite an iconic little square boxy car. Anyway, the R8s were Quite ahead of their time rear engine of course as most cars were in those days And he designed this new shape with the help of some other designers But effectively what we see in front of us is called the A110 So the A110 started life as 1100 and morphed into a 1600s which was the base for this car I got the car out here in 2005. It's a 1971 It was came out of the factory at the end of January 71 And I'd arrived with these big bubble flares on it which are called Group 5 flares And when it arrived in New Zealand in 2004 It was a mess So we had to set about getting it ready for motorsport I had Mark Herbert of the Herbert fabrications to all the safety gear We had Lance Bell of Arrow Wheels Make up some amazing copies of a French wheel But we had to have them in 15 inch because you can't get good 13 inch tires We've now put an 1800 cc engine in the car based on a Renault 16 At the time in 1973 the Alpine won the very first world rally championship They won six of the nine races that year, the rallies that year And they went on to win the world rally championship for the first time in 1973