The A210 weighed about 1475 pounds and was powered by a screaming Renault Gordini 4-cylinder engine. Overall height was a mere 41.4 inches, making it just slightly taller than the Ford GT40 (so-named for its height in inches), which dominated the top class at Le Mans from 1966 to 1969. Overall length was 14.3 feet with long, swoopy overhangs, but it was less than five feet wide. Its fully independent suspension used wishbones front and rear, with disc brakes all around. The Alpine A210 was small mid-engine sports racer built on a lightweight, fully welded tubular spaceframe chassis with a fiberglass body. Shortly after that it was rolled into Gerard Gombert's shed where it sat until this crowd of automotive enthusiasts showed up almost five decades later. Its last race was a DNF during the 1969 Le Mans 24. But the crowd of bundled up Frenchmen was focused on the holy grail, a 1967 Alpine A210 prototype that had run the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, scoring class wins in 19, averaging more than 100 mph, including stops for fuel and driver changes-fast traffic by anyone's standards.

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