Few sports cars combine potent performance, nimble handling, beauty, and rarity quite like the Alpine A110.

Based on Renault mechanicals and clothed in shapely fiberglass bodywork, the petite, rear-engined A110 is one of the greatest European rally cars of its decade, revered in the late 1960s and early 1970s for its handling and performance.

According to the Renault certificate of production on file, this A110 was completed on 25 February 1974 and finished, naturally, in the appealing shade of Alpine Blue.

It was equipped from new with engine number 1173, matching the tag on the engine fitted today.

As a highly developed variant of the long-running model, this 1600 VD features numerous differences from other A110s, including unique front and rear lightweight fiberglass bumpers, small fender flares, large Cibie headlamps and driving lights, and the later-style Alpine logos, bodyside, and hood trim.

Further notable equipment includes what the Alpine register notes is an 1,800-cubic...