1979 De Tomaso Longchamp

This was one of the exhibits on the De Tomaso Drivers Club's stand at the Northern Classic Car Show on the G-Mex Exhibition Centre in Manchester in August 1991.

It's a 1979 De Tomaso Longchamp, one of about 410 produced between 1972 and 1986. The Longchamp was powered by the same 351 cu in (5.8 litres) American-built Ford Cleveland V8 engine that was used in the De Tomaso Pantera.

De Tomaso Longchamp

On 8 April 2015 I showed a photograph of a De Tomaso Pantera that I had taken at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Exhibition Centre in Manchester in August 1991. Here's a photograph of the other car that was on the De Tomaso Drivers Club stand that day.

It's a De Tomaso Longchamp, and the brochure of the show said this about the cars:

'The Pantera is the most well known and has been in production 20 years. It's a mid engined 330-450 bhp Supercar. The Longchamp is a front engined 2 door, 4 seater and with the same engine will cruise at 150 mph. The Pantera will do 0-60 in 5.5 seconds, standing ¼ in 13 secs.'

De Tomaso Pantera

I photographed this car on the stand of the De Tomaso Drivers Club in the G-Mex Exhibition Centre in Manchester at the Northern Classic Car Show in August 1991.

It's a 1980 De Tomaso Pantera. Alejandro de Tomaso started by building a Formula One car which appeared sporadically from 1961 to 1963, and after an unsuccessful attempt to re-enter racing in conjunction with Frank Williams in 1970 he gave up Formula One to concentrate on the road-going models which he had started to manufacture in 1963. The Pantera replaced the Mangusta and was produced from 1971 till 1992.