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1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth – Shooting Star

Ed McDonough

1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth

The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo: Peter Collins

Where do you start?

Society weddings, the jet set racing crowd, brewery heirs, Mangustas, Grand Prix disaster. The De Tomaso story has it all, and the car you see here embodies much of that tale. We can’t tell it all, but the Formula One 505 was both a high and low point in the growth of the De Tomaso empire.

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