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| | DE TOMASO - The History: From Vallelunga to Guarà (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | According to the founder's narration, the symbol of De Tomaso stands for the iron tool used to brand horses in his "estancia", while its colours are those of Argentinian flag. |
 | | In October 1963 De Tomaso became well-known to the public rolling out at Turin Motorshow the spider "Vallelunga", equipped with a central backbone chassis, which is the same peculiarity we can find in other DeTomaso products, such as "Mangusta", "Guarà", and in Lotus Elan and Alpine A110 as well. |
 | | In 1972 De Tomaso was second at Gran Turismo championship, thanks to Mike Parkers and Clay Regazzoni's racesses in Imola and Hockenheim respectively. |
| www.detomaso.it /gb/storia/vallelunga_guara.html (1028 words) |
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