11-17-2014, 02:27 PM
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21 mpg, at 100+mph in 1964!
A friend at work lent me the auction book that contained this car. Scroll down through the pictures. Check out the boat tail and pizza pans!
1964 Alpine M64 | Monaco 2014 | RM AUCTIONS
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11-17-2014, 06:13 PM
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Seeing Alpines ripping around villages in my youth was pretty sweet. I liked them better than the Detomaso that roared by me occasionally.
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11-17-2014, 06:58 PM
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If you find that interesting, you should research air planes. They get decent mpg and go several hundred miles an hour.  |
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And here with the high tail sections on the boat-tail ( they tried several variations on the design ):
I love this angle : 
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11-17-2014, 08:56 PM
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@ beatr911 : Thanks for posting. I had never seen this car before.
Of note here is the radiused edge just behind the front wheel - much like the G1 Insight.
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11-17-2014, 09:25 PM
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Check up that top view! Tapered in plan and elevation.
I think the "Batmobile" fins are vortex fences.
The italians can sure do exquisite body work.
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11-18-2014, 04:26 PM
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Maybe it an aircooled thing with me. I liked Fiat X1/9 s too. Or maybe its the stance from squat swing axles? Well, anyway the Alpines were always running balls-out high rpm. I figured they were 2 liters or less. I thought they came as 1300cc too. Not a lot of displacement is probably why the were always redlining. Back then they has the sweetest aftermarket mufflers on 4 bangers too. If you ever heard Kadrons on a beetle I always liked that sound. Now its regulated, and frankly, I don't want to hear a loud car anymore. I doubt I could even get in and out of most of the stuff I liked in the eighties.
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One of their cars,around this time period was rated at Cd 0.29.
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