[DeTomaso] Wait...what?
Christopher Kimball
chrisvkimball at msn.com
Thu Apr 16 01:21:28 EDT 2009
I have a picture of the Carabo in a book I have called "Extraordinary Automobiles." I hadn't seen any other pictures of it until now.
Chris
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:49:42 -0400
> To: asajay at asajay.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Wait...what?
>
>
> In a message dated 4/15/09 21 20 48, asajay at asajay.com writes:
>
>
> > Makes me think of a Vector, but the butt end just looks well.... butt
> > ugly to me. Much better from the front. :)
> >
>
> It's a fairly well-known car; Sam Foose fell in love with the Alfa Romeo
> Carabo, which was built on a Tipo 33 Stradale chassis:
>
> http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/2287/Alfa-Romeo-Carabo-Concept.html
>
> It was an absolutely stunning concept car in its day, and definitely was
> showing the way forward for sports/GT car design; the later Countach, Lotus
> Esprit, BMW M1 and Pantera all were influenced to a certain degree by the
> thinking displayed by Bertone's Carabo. There were literally dozens of concept
> cars which espoused some of the same design principles, constructed within
> a relatively short time:
>
> http://www.lotusespritturbo.com/Supercars.htm
>
> Apparently some guy wanted to buy the Carabo but Alfa wouldn't sell it to
> him, so he came home and had Sam Foose build one of his own. Although it's
> obviously heavily influenced by the Carabo, it's not exactly the same
> anywhere. Note that the ad for the car states that it uses a Pantera drivetrain;
> it doesn't specifically indicate that an entire Pantera was used in the
> construction, and in fact given that the resultant car is substantially lower,
> and also has no roof, it stands to reason that it is probably a completely
> custom-built car, that just has a few Pantera bits in it.
>
> It's very much a car of its age, and given that I was playing with Hot W
> heels and Corgi cars that looked like this when I was a kid, I rather like it!
>
> Mike
>
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