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De Tomaso Vallelunga

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De Tomaso Vallelunga (1 of 54).

Only 54 examples of the De Tomaso Vallelunga were ever made, they were the first of the road cars built by De Tomaso but not the first cars – the Italian company had previously built cars for Formula Junior, Formula 3, Formula 2, and Formula 1. The plan for the Vallelunga was never for De Tomaso to build it themselves. It was developed by Alessandro and his team in the hopes of selling the design to a larger manufacturer, and was shown as a concept car at the Turin Motor Show in 1963.There were no takers, but Alessandro had fallen in love with the design, so he worked out a deal to have the Vallelunga built by Carrozzeria Ghia in Turin – and production began the next year in 1964. The structural design of the Vallelunga wasn’t entirely dissimilar to cars from Lotus, it utilized a steel backbone chassis, a lightweight fiberglass body, and a 1.6 liter straight-4 Ford Kent engine. Unusually, the Vallelunga used its rear-mid mounted engine as a stressed member, helping to increase rigidity of the rear sub-frame.Suspension is independent front and rear, with double wishbones and coil springs, there are front and rear anti-roll bars, and disc brakes on all four corners. This suspension arrangement coupled with the low 726 kilogram (1600 lb) kerb weight makes the Vallelunga is an excellent handling car even by modern standards.Although a Ford 4-cylinder might not sound particularly exotic, the Kent engine was different. It was named for the English county of Kent, which was just across the river from Ford’s Dagenham plant where it was designed.The engine first appeared in 1959 and would stay in production in some guise until 2002 – an astonishing run when you consider the engineering advances that happened over the same time period. Iterations of the Ford Kent engine would be fitted to everything from the TVR Grantura, and De Tomaso Vallelunga, to the Ford Anglia and Marcos 1500 GT.

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Alejandro’s Sports Car SilhouetteHistory

Silhouettes of De Tomaso mid-engine sports cars, coupe versions: Vallelunga, Mangusta, Pantera, Pantera GT5, Pantera SI, Guarà

De Tomaso was founded by the Argentine-born Alejandro de Tomaso (1928–2003) in Modena in 1959. Exactly 60 years ago.

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The first De Tomaso, the Vallelunga.

Silodrome.

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Alejandro’s Sports Car SilhouetteHistory

Silhouettes of De Tomaso mid-engine sports cars, coupe versions: Vallelunga, Mangusta, Pantera, Pantera GT5, Pantera SI, Guarà

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De Tomaso Vallelunga - it´s a small car.

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De Tomaso Vallelunga - The car that came before Mangusta and Pantera. A De Tomaso Dino. Only four cylinders but brilliantly designed by Carrozzeria Fissore.

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