Reply to "Living with a Longchamp?"

Roland , thanks for the info (how much for the wheels, btw?)

Dutchie,

I just sold my `71 Volvo 142 (Practicaly an one owner car with time warp interior), and my 1975 Alfa Spider( with Bobocor racing(Alfa´s factory competition representative in the states) mods) goes for sale within a month. In the past I´ve had a Porsche, Merc coupes(2), Alfa spiders(3), Lincoln continental ´66 and Pontiac Fiero GT.

After a few convertible sport cars, I started to feel it would be a right time for a proper grand turismo. As I started my options were:

Alfa Montreal
De Tomaso Longchamp
Ferrari 308gt/4
Iso Lele
Maserati Kyalami


Alfa is too complicated as far as the maintanance goes, Iso Lele has too little support. Maserati has all the expence of a Ferrari as far as the maintanace goes, but nowhere near as easy to sell if needs to be sold. Ferrari is a nice car, but I´ve noticed that thanks to F1 I´ve started to dislike the whole brand.

When I was in a classic car dealership in northern Italy, I asked their opinions about these cars. They dismissed the Longchamp as an impossible to find and muttered something about the american engine. I filed De Tomaso as not an option, and forgot about it. Until I saw a picture of the Turin show car in a French classic car magazine. As a result it´s my number one choice now.