[DeTomaso] From Dick Ruzzin...

[Jeff Cobb]

Thanks Dick Ruzzin for doing your article. 

AQ is the best book out there and I am glad you did the story. I bought an AQ maybe 30 years ago that had an small article about the new de Tomaso Mangusta coming out, maybe the AQ was a 66 or 67? Such an overlooked dynamic physical spirit of a car, and fun to drive.
Sometimes a perfect car for those who have the need for people to look at them. Insecure drivers need not apply. Should not it as a get away bank robbing car.

I was showing a friend Sunday some photos I took with a Minox in Rome during Dec of 71. Both were taken on the Via Veneto in Rome. One is of a lime green Espada and the other is of a red Mangusta. Three days later I saw the third Bora leave the factory door while Ghiblis were being made.
I was bit hard and thank God a cure for this Italian car illness was never found and have owned and still do all those four cars seen that week in Rome.

Tom Tjaarda told me as we were looking at my Mangusta that if the roof length/center of car would have been three or so inches longer so a normal size person could sit, use the pedals better and exit better, then the proportions would have been wrong.
I can handle some suffering.

Glad to see you are doing well, Dick.

Jeff

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On Oct 11, 2012, at 1:33 PM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Dick isn't on the forum anymore but asked me to post this for him:
> 
> From: Dickruzzindesign at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:18:47 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: MANGUSTA DESIGN
> To: dickruzzindesign at aol.com
> 
> 
> To:
> FRIENDS,  DeTOMASO MANGUSTA ENTHUSIASTS, FANS, CAR DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS, 
> CAR LOVERS, SCULPTORS,  ITALIANS,  GERMANS,  FRENCHMEN, AMERICANS,  WRITERS,  
> ARTISTS,  WRENCHES AND ALL OTHERS WHO NOTICE CARS IN AN INTENSE WAY:
> 
> We probably have never met but I wanted you to know that I have written an 
> article for Automotive Quarterly Magazine that will appear in the next 
> issue, December of 2012. The article is about the design of the DeTomaso 
> Mangusta.  To my knowledge no professional designer or anyone else has ever written 
> specifically about the appearance and function of the design even though it 
> is now over forty years old.
> 
> I am an automobile designer myself and have owned Mangusta 8MA670 since 
> September of 1969 so putting these two experiences together results in some 
> interesting insights into the creation and execution of the design as well as 
> the aesthetic result.  Some that I discovered myself while recently writing 
> the article even though I have owned the car for over forty years.  Sometimes 
> putting two and two together for the first time yields results not 
> anticipated.
> 
> If you know anyone that is a DeTomaso or Mangusta fan please pass this on 
> to them as I think my perspective will be fun and enlightening.  I have found 
> that the total car as an automotive concept is very misunderstood and that 
> there is so much more to it to be enthusiastic about besides its beautiful 
> emotional and dynamic shape..
> 
> Thank You for your time.
> 
> All the best,
> Dick Ruzzin.
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