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Alessandro DeTomaso passed away in
Modena of heart failure. It took about
a year for his estate to liquidate every-
thing, including the P70 and the Sport
5000. The cars moved through several
owners in Europe and the U.S. and fi-
nally came to rest at an exotic car
dealership in Southern California.
They were purchased, as a pair, by col-
lector Mark Moshayedi in Newport
Beach, California. The P70 underwent
meticulous restoration almost imme-
diately and was shown at the Quail
show in Monterey in August of 2015
and then displayed at the SEMA show
in Las Vegas three months later. In
March of 2016, the car was brought to
the Amelia Island Concours where it
was a real head-turner.
Peter Brock, one of the judges, re-
called that of all the projects he ever
worked on, the time he spent in Mod-
ena with Fantuzzi and his artisans
was the most enjoyable in his career.
“
They had so much real passion
and loved doing the P70. It was such a
different reaction from what I had ex-
perienced when a “new” project was
undertaken in California
.”
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Sunday morning the 330 cars in the concours were judged. Here the P70 is scrutinized
by judges, identifiable by their natty blue blazers [
right to left
]: Chuck Cantwell, Wayne
Carini and Bernie Sanders.
Photos courtesy of Peter Brock, Jeff
Burgy, Bill Fulk, Colleen Kopec and
Harvey Sherman