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De Tomaso Mangusta, Lamborghini Espada, need we say more? | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 48

May 04, 2020
used BorgWarner Jaguar used BorgWarner so here You can see how long that engine lasts if we used to open the hood on MGB you can see how long that engine lasts and because this car has the ornament you can see the spokes on the hood so yeah You know, if you see it at a car show driving down the road or a car with this lump and that lump, that means it has a six-cylinder engine, I guess it's a custom one that's not understood or a car with a lot of rumors. about it and I've never seen it with disc wheels with hubcaps like this.
de tomaso mangusta lamborghini espada need we say more barn find hunter   ep 48
I've only seen wire wheels, you're pretty smart Tom, that's very strange. I only know ten from the United States, actually, yes, and how many came. with automatics, yes, less than 20%. I think the numbers are 17%, total production of 8,000 units in the world. This was kind of, you know, if you think of a mg b mg c Austin-Healey Jag, this was a lower-case Healey or Jaguar coupe, almost 6 grand on the engine, but in a lower priced mg body, that's one fancy car, man. Wow. Well, we're working on what I consider King Tut's tomb. It's just pretty amazing the way I've been looking at this.
de tomaso mangusta lamborghini espada need we say more barn find hunter   ep 48

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de tomaso mangusta lamborghini espada need we say more barn find hunter ep 48...

Here is a console that is my Mangusta Wow, so the back is not that. I would be against today, okay, eh, look at the red, yeah, that's the car number, that's the magic of something. Wow, and that's Father Wills, yes, very good, you know how much time we've spent with British cars, come on, we're going to crash into an Italian car. Lamborghini and I don't know anything about it, so you're my guide, you're not serious, you know something about something, okay, so tell me before I open the hood of this car, tell me this is a Lamborghini, what Espada do I see? , Sir. . uh Ferruccio Lamborghini was born under the sign of Taurus and I think he had an affection for everything related to bullfighting, which is why most of his cars were named after bullfighting.
de tomaso mangusta lamborghini espada need we say more barn find hunter   ep 48
The Sword is the sword used in the final act of killing. the bull, the four passenger one, not the two passenger one, and the only car that any car could have had, but this is the car chosen for him, geez, what a monster, why the v12 for the cam there were two barrels or before, Weber is a double choke carburetor, so when you have a weber you have two carburetors, you know, in essence, here you have a choke for each cylinder, you can't get much

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efficient, yeah, no joke. Oops no, you can remove the head so we can measure the piston. no, no, we can do that, that's fine, give me two minutes and I'm also looking here's the windshield washer bottle, it's Lucas, so here's an Italian car with British electrical components, look at this firm seat, oh, that's it a Cobra radio, one of those like The 1-9 switch switch I already have, yes you bought it at Target with a lot of mileage 21,000 941, as far as I know it is original and where did you buy it.
de tomaso mangusta lamborghini espada need we say more barn find hunter   ep 48
It is called what state a Florida car was in from a property that had been kept in storage. stored dry in a building, the lawyer sold it to a liquidator in the state. One of the Nights unique styling features of this car is that the rear windows are in two pieces and you really

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them to be able to see the rear in the driver's position, you

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to have it that actually does that, that's the only way that you can see what's behind you mm-hmm, so this little white car that we've been ignoring as we walked down the road joined Kay, okay, okay, Tom Cotter, nice.
To get to know you, this is a series like one, so you have toggle switches all the way: it's a 3.8 liter, I guess three points, what years is it 1963, the e-type was a later development of racing cars that were so successful at LeMans, the C and D type one. I remember three three lemons in three years. Me personally, this is the purest design of the coupe, it was the first thing off the drawing board and the roadster was the Roadster. The car, the Roadster is sexy, the coupe is almost beyond description, yes, Enzo Ferrari said the most beautiful car ever built was a compliment from a guy who built it himself. pretty sexy cars, so here we have a 3.8 liter double overhead cam inline six with three real carburetors - such a sweet engine, such a sweet engine, they run so well, they have power, they have torque, they are smooth, quiet, beautiful, hello, I gave this car 83 83 84 well again, this was my search for my dream car.
I ended up with a TD on the way to LAX. I picked up the Sunday paper and there in the classifieds is this car. I called him that night when I got home and we made arrangements for him to come back in two weeks, you know? the price was right the guy was direct he was an engineer because he had Caterpillar working in Peoria I lived in Southern California I flew there again I saw the car it became a matter of negotiation he added asking I had an offer I made my offer he I said yes so fast that I bid too high when I bought the car, the headers were chrome i.e. just chrome over steel, not the right way to chrome something, but as soon as I saw the exhaust headers it originally had, They were custom and quite attractive.
You made it in a kind of very, very dark gray, but as soon as the water splashes, they start to crack. Once they start to crack they continue to deteriorate, that's how the factory made them, boy that's a sweetheart. Now this car is a series one, which means it has toggle switches on the dash like this and then the series two had rocker switches and then what did the series one and a half have? They would do it with a combination, oh no, I think. that's when they come in I think that was when they introduced the rocker switches okay a year and a half that was only for a year a transitional model Tom you know about what 67 yes yes what honey I think of your cars this is my favorite graduation gift for me same so this is a 71 72 72 this is a GT that I bought in Memphis in the Memphis area again Randy Baloo told me about it.
I wanted to restore it. I take everything apart to do it right and there you see them. consequence of your projects, let's start hard to finish yes, yes, this is one of the first because it doesn't have a headrest, yes, that's the handle, a white bead, so it's probably sixty-four sixty-three sixty no 63 that's the end of the pole, I think it's at the end of the pole hands I'm having a good day I've never gone up to look at cars before this is who would know this is up here this is like um you know, I fly on planes and I look down on buildings like this one and I wonder what cars are there well here there are three so this is a body shop up here these were the body shops so Jeepster we found a couple of jeeps that are on display before we call this a television for adults, is that right? so it's an inline 6, huh, this looks like it's in good shape, boy, it was nice, it was a good restoration, did you restore it and buy it like that?
Oh, I don't like that. Wow, nice interior, nice interior, 77,000 miles so here you have a Crosley that's an old cross that's an old 39 Wow and the gas tank is as big as the engine again this is a Wauseon engine so yeah, we'll probably never see this again in this series, but we saw a big shot that was a Crosley guy that's postwar, this is a prewar convertible and now we have a postwar 46 pickup truck, the first year The production version has a chisel-shaped front part and this would be the CC series, the directional wheels would be noticeable.
In all of these I mean, they look a lot like a Jeep steering wheel, very, very rudimentary, well, you know a lot about these things, I guess you do, but that's as cute as a bug, oh man. Wow, Morse this way, so we got another van in two. war wagons this is a scaled down wagon oh no kidding so one has wainscoting that's cool Robert I gotta tell you that's okay we've been doing this show now we're starting our fourth year yes there would be discovered this garage with three crossed leaves, an mga and MGB and MGB in Austin and another one back there.
This would have been a fight,

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of the day, just this girl and here she is like a footnote, tells me a lot. about you, you have a 12 cylinder Lamborghini on the stairs and you have these upstairs, it's amazing, I don't want to come here, so what store would this Jeepster be in? I had the car repainted, of course, I tried to do it right, that's the original color. that's that maroon one hundred thousand miles that's a running car, yeah I just left Florida, yeah that wouldn't be a bad car to finish what you started Robert in the four years we've been

barn

making.
Hunter, I have to say this is one of the most significant

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s I have ever seen. I've never met anyone who has such wild eclectic tastes as yours and that's a compliment, I mean, I mean it, than the same person who is interested. 12 cylinder Lamborghinis also interested in Crosley trucks and you have the same passion in both areas so it is a passion yes thank you thank you for spending the morning with us it has been an amazing day thank you thank you very much . Thank you very much for coming, you know, whenever we can in a 500 series Bond, we try to start a car if it's not too much trouble and this car, Robert says, should start without too much trouble.
Excellent Chrysler Imperial with a great engine, an incredible 413 convertible engine. car and we just plug the battery charger into it for a couple of hours to see if it starts waaaaaah, smooth old Robert is awesome.

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