The Tomaso Deauville – an Italian-style Jaguar XJ with V8 power from the USA.

Norman Greenbaum’s „Spirit in the Sky“, the mitreißende Refrain von Dexy’s Midnight Runners „Come on Eileen“ and the impressive music video of „Take on me“ by the Norwegian Kombo a-ha were all among the top charts and gilt as a class of the Pop culture. Was it all great, and was the Teufel with that cute Italian cruiser on the Siebzigern zu tun? Nun, the songs were created by Rolling Stone Magazine and the great “One-Hit-Wonder”. One of the most driving cars is Tomaso’s ultimate automotive One-Hit-Wonder – which I can never in good conscience enjoy…

Often the Jaguar XJ copy by Tomaso Deauville is now more of a more elegantly stylized Raubkatze. Vielmehr een in Italy entwickelte Limousine with American Antriebsstrang, the three Besitzer von Grand Tourern à la Lamborghini Espada, Jensen Interceptor and another Aston Martin on etwas fell Einzigartigeres with four full-fledged Türen opmerksam machen sollte.

This is the Deauville company, thank you with Lee Iacocca, from 1970 to 1978, president of Ford Motor Company. Donned the Mustang hat in the 1960s with Alejandro de Tomaso in Pantera-Projekt equipment. I made a good impression of Ghia’s design chief, the American Tom Tjaarda, with their many design inspirations – dare to work with the Fokus on the Jaguar XJ. In the continuation of the plan for an eighty-eighth luxury limousine, an artistic fourteenth Pantera, beant nach a berühmten Seebad and the French Atlantic coast. Von Tjaarda debuted the XJ in Italy under the names Deauville at the 1970 Turin Salon.

So I am working in Pantera as in Deauville with the 5.7-liter Ford-Cleveland V8 with Einsatz. In the Limousine there is 275 PS. While one of the four inserts will never be a rasant – leather weight of 1.9 tons – the distance to the length is greater. A V8 war with the Dreigang-Automatic Cruise-o-Matic from Ford and the Taillight together with the Salisbury-Differential and double Ferern and Dämpfern come from a Jaguar Mk X. Who goes from the British Konkurrent are two separate tanks. Giampaolo Dallara is responsible for the Bodengruppe und die Fahrwerk-war, aber das hatte seinen Preis. At market price, the Deauville costs 10,000 francs more than the Spitzen model of the Jaguar XJ-Reihe, with the V12. In England, the early 1970s cost a Jaguar XJ6 four times, in Germany the war now became lighter in 1978 than the Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9.

This example from the first series by Denen has never appeared before, on February 1, 1976 in the Ticino Zugelassen. 2005 was the highest price purchase and was available for 70,000 Swiss Francs in 2013 and completely restored. Since the general meeting of the exotic Italians we have lived 500 kilometers and we are happy with it in our current situation. In the fall there are still some, were between 1971 and 1988 but now 244 Deauville gebaut – with the Spitzenjahr 1972, as 46 Exemplare das Werk in Modena lost. The end of Tomaso is not a nice combination for my wife Isabelle and the second armored Deauville – for the Belgian King Baudouin and the Italian police.

If you have found a super limousine in such a way, the guarantee is that you will be able to see a fragment at the opening of a car and kaffee event, it is the tomaso that guides his life! In the October auction of the Oldtimer Galerie you can find more Perlens, such as an Iso Griffo, a Cadillac Series 62, a Ferrari Testarossa Monospecchio, a BMW M3 E30 Cabrio and much more. Darunte more as the half ohne Mindestpreis!

Photos by Bruno von Rotz

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