1982 CITROËN VISA Trophée Gr. B 
Only 200 examples built

High quality restorati…
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1982 CITROËN VISA Trophée Gr. B

Only 200 examples built High quality restoration Never raced! French registration title Chassis n° VF7VDVL000VL1439 The year 1982 is full of changes for motor sport. Most important of them, Group B leading to the end of Gr. 4 and 5. In order to attract new entrants, technical regulations are not very restrictive, but require the production of at least 200 examples of the model entered to be homologated. At Citroën, Guy Verrier asks Heuliez to produce 200 examples of the new competition Visa. The engine is the 1 284 cc XZ, fed by two Weber 45 DCOE carburetors and developing 100 hp, and the bodywork elements will be lightened by using composite materials. The windows are made of fiber and Plexiglas. Many, if not almost all, Visa Trophies have been used in competition, and very few civilian versions have never been transformed for rallying, like the model we are interested in here. The Visa Trophy presented here is one of the 200 «civilian» versions sold new in France. It was sold in August 1982 in the south of France. It was registered 1094 UW 06 and belonged to a family of jewellers living partly in Niort. It changed department one year later. The couple drove only 6,200 km and kept it until October 1987 before buying a new Alfa Romeo at the local Alfa dealer in Niort, making the Visa part of the transaction. The car will stay in the back of the garage from 1987 to... 2007! An amateur found the car and bought it. It had only 7,400 km on the odometer but needed to be put back on the road. Mr G. will keep it for ten years, never even driving it! Another collector buys it but only completes 900 km with it in five years. The current owner finds the car in April 2021, the odometer showing only 8 444 original km! The car has suffered from the long years spent waiting in a garage, and the current owner, a body shop owner embarks on a complete restoration. The base is extremely healthy but the paint will have to be redone as well as the upholstery and the mechanics. Today presented in an exceptional condition, all the specific elements of this rare series are present: fiberglass windows, the Plexiglas windows, the «Gr. B» decoration, the blue upholstery... nothing is missing. This car and its amazing history will surely delight the most demanding of race car lovers! 

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1982 CITROËN VISA Trophée Gr. B

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