[DeTomaso] Two Vintage Detomaso Race Cars for sale in California

[Mike Thomas]

Prices were listed for both when I opened the link: $4.95M for the P70, $1.595M for the Sport 5000.  Not chump change.
Mike Thomas

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From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Mike Reilly
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:21 PM
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Subject: [DeTomaso] Two Vintage Detomaso Race Cars for sale in California

All, I was looking through my latest Sports Car Market magazine and saw that Legendary Classic Center (www.Lcc.us.com) in Costa Mesa California has two 1965 Detomaso race cars for sale.  Pretty cool but price on request.  Details:


De Tomaso P70 Prototype (1 of 1)

The De Tomaso P70 (P70 standing  for Posterior 7 Liter Engine)  Started as a joint venture between Cobra Creator Carroll Shelby, American Peter Brock styled it and Italian Coachbuilder Fantuzzi made the Alloy bodywork. De Tomasso designed the backbone chassis and was meant to develop a seven-Liter version of the Fords smallblock V8 for the P70 to be raced in USA.


De Tomaso Sport 5000 Prototype

This beautiful SportsRacer was the brain child of Carol Shelby and Peter Brock and is well documented in the Shelby directory under the name of Original King Cobra. Original design (the P70) was featured on the cover and in an article of the March 1966 issue of Road & Track magazine.  The article referred to the new design as the "Ghia De Tomaso", a brand new racing car that was unveiled in the fall of 1965 at that year's Turin Motor Show. The author of the article revealed an ambitious racing program in Europe as well as in the newly created Can-Am Challenge.  At least ten cars were planned to be produced with the prospect of another forty were planned for later in order that it could meet the FIA's homologation requirements for it to qualify in the the GT-class.  Despite all the good intentions this was the last the world ever saw of the V8 engined DeTomaso racer and this, the lone prototype was quietly retired to a corner of the factory where it would remain until de Tomaso's death a decade ago in 2004.