De Tomaso Mangusta

The De Tomaso Mangusta is a sports car from Italian auto architect De Tomaso produced amid 1967 and 1971.The Mangusta replaced the Vallelunga model, on which its anatomy was based. The chat "Mangusta" is Italian for "Mongoose", an beastly that can annihilate cobras. It was accounted that the car was so called because De Tomaso had some talks with Carroll Shelby to alter Shelby Cobra with a antagonism car congenital in Italy by the argentinian ("De Tomaso Sport 5000" a.k.a. "De Tomaso P70"), but no accord was active back Shelby was complex by Ford into Ford GT40 antagonism programme. Nevertheless, Alessandro DeTomaso and Carroll Shelby were friends[citation needed] and business is business, so it is additionally accounted that the antecedent 200 engines for the Mangusta did appear from Shelby. The Mangusta was replaced by the abundant cheaper to body De Tomaso Pantera in 1971.

De Tomaso Pantera

The Pantera was a sports car produced by the De Tomaso car company of Italy from 1971 to 1991, the last one being delivered to a customer in 1992.

The word "Pantera" is Italian for "Panther".

The car was designed by US-born designer Tom Tjaarda and replaced the De Tomaso Mangusta. Unlike the Mangusta, which employed a steel backbone chassis, the Pantera was a steel monocoque design, the first instance of De Tomaso using this construction technique. It made its public debut in Modena in March 1970 and was presented at the 1970 New York Motor Show a few weeks later.