[DeTomaso] Postcard from Belgium....

[Charles McCall]

Not only is it a fascinating looking car, but the story behind it is equally
interesting. 

Roland has owned the car for 33 years. He bought it as a complete wreck, and
the entire front half of the car was literally missing. This was the
pre-internet era, and information was scarce. A friend sent him photos of a
Mangusta, and he hand-hammered out panels based on the photos to rebuild the
car from scratch. 

"Let's see, here's a photo of a Mangusta headlight... so I guess it must
look sort of like this..." and so forth. He had no engineering drawings and
no purchased parts to rebuild it. 

The interior is quite nice, and all hand-sewn by Roland as well. It's a
rather menancing looking car in the rear view mirror!

Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe"
http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323

-----Mensaje original-----
De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] En
nombre de Julian Kift
Enviado el: martes, 31 de mayo de 2011 0:29
Para: mikeldrew at aol.com; De Tomaso List
Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] Postcard from Belgium....


That is one cool looking Mangusta with the widebody kit, I for one would
love to see more photos of it when you get a chance.
 
Have fun,
Julian
 
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:31:22 -0400
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Postcard from Belgium....
> 
> Charlie wrote:
> 
> "Pictures will be sure to follow..."
> 
> Of course!
> 
> Great first day on Charlie McCall's bourgois backroads tour! We had a 
> mellow day, with a very relaxed getup, a short drive to Ypres to tour the 
> Flanders Field museum (Ypres was the site of the principal front in WWI),
then a 
> nice lunch in an outdoor cafe (and some shopping in the chocolate shops).
> 
> After that we drove to the town of Tournai and viewed the huge cathedral 
> (undergoing restoration) and just sort of ambled around a bit, then
eventually 
> another short drive to our final destination for the night, where we were 
> joined by another Pantera from England.
> 
> The most radical car in the group is a super-wild Mangusta fitted with a 
> twin-turbocharged 351C! Apparently it puts out a fair bit of heat--the 
> passenger had a backpack in the luggage compartment alongside the engine,
and the 
> exhaust heat was so extreme that it melted the backpack and the contents 
> within!
> 
> The day wrapped up with a little nap followed by a typically epic dinner.
:>
> )
> 
> Here's photos of three of the cars on the tour; Charlie and Amaya in their

> GT5-S, Andy and Dawn from the UK in their RHD GT5-S (bone-stock, all 
> original, just purchased six months ago), and Roland and his son-in-law
Rusty from 
> Germany, in the Mangusta.
> 
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=31258
> 
> Weather forecast is for light rain tomorrow, then super-duper sunshine 
> weather for the rest of the week and the weekend. :>)
> 
> Mike
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