RE: Iso Lele: Spotted
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defonsecca said:
Fantastic Longchamp GTS there by the way Dinkel. Well-spotted! I saw a stunning red RHD one a couple of years ago at the Auto Italia Festival at Brooklands. It got more attention than any Ferrari ... and what a gorgeous noise it made!
Tom Hartley Junior had a mint brown / gold Longchamp GTS for sale about a year ago for around £50k...... De Tomaso also made about 12 Convertibles - what price those nowadays I wonder...???? At least one in GTS spec was made in RHD for the UK.
God, I remember someone trying to sell a Longchamp in the Manchester Loot free ads paper for years in the nineties.Tom Hartley Junior had a mint brown / gold Longchamp GTS for sale about a year ago for around £50k...... De Tomaso also made about 12 Convertibles - what price those nowadays I wonder...???? At least one in GTS spec was made in RHD for the UK.
defonsecca said:
Fantastic Longchamp GTS there by the way Dinkel. Well-spotted! I saw a stunning red RHD one a couple of years ago at the Auto Italia Festival at Brooklands. It got more attention than any Ferrari ... and what a gorgeous noise it made!
Tom Hartley Junior had a mint brown / gold Longchamp GTS for sale about a year ago for around £50k...... De Tomaso also made about 12 Convertibles - what price those nowadays I wonder...???? At least one in GTS spec was made in RHD for the UK.
That DT is owned by my PH-mate Transmitterman. Cracking car that.Tom Hartley Junior had a mint brown / gold Longchamp GTS for sale about a year ago for around £50k...... De Tomaso also made about 12 Convertibles - what price those nowadays I wonder...???? At least one in GTS spec was made in RHD for the UK.
defonsecca said:
These were seriously under-rated cars in their time & still way under the radar as an appreciating Classic. All the road tests of the time gave it unanimous praise, a very worthy rival to the Maserati Indy, Ferrari GTC/4, Jensen Interceptor, Aston Martin V8, Bristol 411 etc etc. Very classy & excellent quality, all it lacked (like all Iso's cars) was a famous name like its competitors ... and using a lump of Detroit iron under its bonnet, not exactly in the same calibre as a Maserati V8. But as a proper GT that lazy, under-stressed engine suited it perfectly. John Lennon famously bought an RHD Lele off the Iso stand at the Earl's Court Motor Show, not a bad vote of confidence....!
It's such a pity that every supercar / sportscar manufacturer from the 60's & 70's who used an America V8 have all gone to the wall - Iso, Jensen, De Tomaso, Monteverdi, Bristol (though maybe not...!), AC, Bizzarrini, Intermeccanica etc They all gave us some iconic & beautiful cars.
The Iso which Lennon bought at the '67 Motor Show was a Fidia It's such a pity that every supercar / sportscar manufacturer from the 60's & 70's who used an America V8 have all gone to the wall - Iso, Jensen, De Tomaso, Monteverdi, Bristol (though maybe not...!), AC, Bizzarrini, Intermeccanica etc They all gave us some iconic & beautiful cars.
. Despite not really being a petrolhead like Harrison was, Lennon often bought cars on a whim and flogged them on fairly quickly. In '67 he bought a gold coloured 911 for his missus but they only kept it for about a fortnight as he crashed it. He passed his test in George Martin's Triumph Herald and the following day went out and bought a Ferrari 330GTC. All those around him said he was a terrible driver, not helped by his chronic short sightedness!Don't mention Monteverdis or the 'want fairy' might suddenly appear...
Edited by P5BNij on Friday 24th March 10:01
Another RHD Lele here, in Australia for twice the price of the red one...!
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C838242
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C838242
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