Two Classic Cars Featured On My Car Quest Have Been Sold To Readers
by Mike – This Iso Grifo, Series 2 has been sold to a My Car Quest reader in Hong Kong. I am sorry to see it leave California but I am happy for the seller who is a friend and the buyer who is getting...
View ArticleCar Of The Day – Classic Car For Sale – 1969 De Tomaso Mangusta
by Mike – Here is my pick for the classic car for sale today that I would like to own. Another Mangusta – it seems like there has been an over supply of Mangustas on the market recently considering...
View ArticleThis 1969 De Tomaso Mangusta Has Sold To A My Car Quest Reader
by Mike – This 1969 De Tomaso Mangusta was for sale on eBay recently and The Car of the Day on My Car Quest. It sold to Herbert P. in Vienna, Austria, a regular reader of My Car Quest – read the...
View ArticleThe Mangusta Arrives In Vienna, Austria
by Mike - Herbert P. of Vienna, Austria, a regular reader of My Car Quest, bought this De Tomaso Mangusta earlier this year after reading about it on My Car Quest. He sent in these photos taken the...
View ArticleTom Goes For A Ride In A Mangusta
by Mike - Dick Ruzzin wrote this as a Comment to the Post, What A Pity An Unrestored 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe ... I thought this deserved more exposure than a Comment. Text by Dick Ruzzin This is...
View ArticleThe Chevrolet Powered De Tomaso Mangusta
by Mike - Dick Ruzzin writes on Dean's Garage 401 Mangustas were built in Modena, Italy by DeTomaso Automobili. Bodies were supplied by Ghia and both the exterior and interior were designed by...
View ArticleA DeTomaso Mangusta Sold For Big Bucks
by Michael Gulett - Yesterday at the Auctions America auction in Burbank, California a De Tomaso Mangusta sold for $195,000 hammer price. Add the 10% buyers commission and the total is $214,500. This...
View ArticleThe De Tomaso Pantera 7X: Were We Uh, Bamboozled?…
by Wallace Wyss – I think, after working for Motor Trend at two different points in time, that I gained a certain amount of sophistication. Maybe not. I remember around 1972 or so when the Pantera was...
View ArticleThe Sad Last Days of De Tomaso
These pictures may provoke more questions than answers… by Wallace Wyss – In an ideal world, I’d like to think that, when an automaker phases out production, and hangs it up, that all is done neatly,...
View ArticleDe Tomaso Panteras Came To Monterey
by Mike – The Pantera Club of Northern California Pantera Owners Club of America** held their annual Fun Ralley in Monterey this year for the first time. There were De Tomaso Panteras and a couple of...
View ArticleThe Last DeTomaso Goes Up for Auction
The Prototype that came in from the Cold. by Wallace Wyss – Nobody tells me. And, hey, I wrote three books on DeTomaso. So it’s a little embarrassing to say that I am reporting to you today on a “new”...
View ArticleWere Panteras Led Down The Wrong Road?
by Wallace Wyss – De Tomaso Panteras are finally getting good money at auctions, but far less than, say, a Maserati Ghibli made in the same time frame. This is partly because they are all too common,...
View ArticleBook Review: Extreme Panteras
Review by Wallace Wyss – Title: Extreme Panteras Authors: David and Linda Adler Foreward by Tom Tjaarda Binding: Hardbound Format: Horizontal Size: 11” x 8.5” Length: 304 pg. Price: $89.95 Publisher:...
View ArticleOrange County Panteras Palooza Meet – May 6, 2018
by Wallace Wyss – OK, I get it. Finally. What do I get? I get it what Pantera owners are doing. I talk about it in a book review of the book Extreme Panteras, but want to re-iterate my change of mind....
View ArticleThe Return of De Tomaso
by Wallace Wyss – The world found that out at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom, where a car wearing the Isis badge and called the De Tomaso P72 was unveiled. Now this new...
View ArticleHistory As A Marketing Tool In The Car Business
by Wallace Wyss – I notice in the announcement of the new DeTomaso that the company producing it, Apollo, references early DeTomaso race cars in their press release material. But at the DeTomaso P72’s...
View ArticleThe De Tomaso P70 to Appear During Monterey Car Week
by Wallace Wyss – Sometimes old race cars, even if they never race, have a way of re-appearing decades later. Such is the case with the 1965 De Tomaso P70. Originally it started out as a project with...
View ArticleThe De Tomaso Pantera 7X: Were We Uh, Bamboozled?…
by Wallace Wyss – I think, after working for Motor Trend at two different points in time, that I gained a certain amount of sophistication. Maybe not. I remember around 1972 or so when the Pantera was...
View ArticleHistory As A Marketing Tool In The Car Business
by Wallace Wyss – I notice in the announcement of the new DeTomaso that the company producing it, Apollo, references early DeTomaso race cars in their press release material. But at the DeTomaso P72’s...
View ArticleThe De Tomaso P70 to Appear During Monterey Car Week
by Wallace Wyss – Sometimes old race cars, even if they never race, have a way of re-appearing decades later. Such is the case with the 1965 De Tomaso P70. Originally it started out as a project with...
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