[DeTomaso] Great Longchamp article on the way

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

Hi guys,

The great British car magazine Classic & Sports Car just hit the stands in 
England, featuring a comparison test between a pair of 80's bruisers--the 
Aston Martin DBS and the De Tomaso Longchamp GTS.   The featured De Tomaso is 
a right-hand-drive GTS that is reasonably well known over there (and in fact 
was featured in Classic Cars magazine a couple of years ago).   I got to 
drive it a few years back, and it was an absolute delight.   Roger Brotton had 
gone through it and mended the rust, rebuilt the leaky radiator, and 
rebuilt the engine (the owner absolutely wasted a very rare XE block in the 
process, as it was built to a very mild specification, and should properly have 
been sold on to finance the engine build on a conventional block).

Anyway, the article is reportedly quite favorable, and will be hitting 
newstands here in a few weeks (and will be appearing in an upcoming POCA 
Profiles).

In the meantime, here's an exquisite photo, shot at dawn by Tony Baker, C&
SC's ace snapper:

http://images.pistonheads.com/nimg/21758/detomasolarge.jpg

Mike