Friday, April 29, 2005

1969 DeTomaso Mangusta


Before building the Pantera, DeTomaso built the Mangusta also with Ford V-8 power. Only 400 or so of these exotic Italians were built in contrast to the almost 12,000 Panteras built between 1971 and 1996. In the the late 90's the Mangusta name was revived by DeTomaso, but sold here as the Qvale Mangusta. Mangusta is Italian for Mongoose, I wonder if he had his sites on Shelby's Cobra?

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