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

I took this photograph when I was wandering round the displays of the different car clubs in the paddock at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the display of the De Tomaso UK Drivers Club, and foremost are a couple of Guaras and two or three Panteras. Hiding away it looks like there's a Mangusta and a Longchamp.

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.'