60 years of the Alpine A110

Thanks, enjoyed that. Oddly fond of the A106 - must be those cool 4CV wheels...

I'm full of fascinating stories about things I didn't do in my life, but my 'I nearly bought a Renault 8' is right up there with the best.

It was about £4k, had a Gordini engine reportedly built by Salv Sacco, and had been so extensively, er, modified for sprinting that it was just about entirely unoriginal. I fancied treating it to a sort of budget Singer treatment, but correctly identified I possessed neither the skill nor time to do this.

A310s remind me of a charmed youth spent holidaying in the south of France. They seemed impossibly exotic at the time. Yellow headlights mandatory.