1969 De Tomaso Mangusta
De Tomaso named the Mangusta after the mongoose, one of the only animals that reliably kills a cobra, a jab aimed squarely at Carroll Shelby after their Can-Am partnership collapsed and Shelby carried the chassis work toward Ford's GT40 program instead. Giorgetto Giugiaro drew the body while working for Ghia, giving the car its low, wedge-shaped stance and gullwing-style panels over the engine bay. This 1969 example is one of 401 built and has belonged to its current owner since 2003. The 302 cubic-inch Ford V8 was rebuilt in 2006 with aluminum cylinder heads and a Holley carburetor, paired with a ZF five-speed manual transaxle. The dark blue paint, a color the car has worn since the 1970s, got a bare-metal repaint in 2024, and the red leather interior was redone in 2005 and refreshed again in 2021. The odometer reads 55,000 miles, only 6,000 of them added in the past two decades.

