Old Nasty

Direct descendent of the Mangusta. De Tomaso smoothed out all the problems of the original & made a deal with FoMoCo to market the cars through Lincoln/Mercury dealers. Not quite as pretty, but they managed to retain the original lines as designed by Ghia. Still, a classic car well ahead of it's time.

Hands down. De Tomaso Mangusta.

If I'm not mistaken, this car was owned by George Stauffer in Wisconsin before it's restoration. Saw it many times at Road America.

nice color.

Cute little bugger. How about a little wind up key for a push bar.

What about a color for webers?

Beautiful MOPAR.

Interesting. His son Steve March Torme is a local radio DJ in my town & that's how I heard of his modeling hobby.

Mel Torme built model planes.

love those springer front ends.

This truck takes me back to when I was a little kid. For some reason, I remember our milkman's name. Warren Bushbaum. Sometimes he would come right in the house & put the milk & butter in the fridge. I think he had the hots for my mom. A much simpler time.

My uncle used to race one of these back in the day with mixed success. He called it his "butt ugly".

perty.

Very nice engine detail.

Cute little bugger.