{"id":60173,"date":"2021-01-15T19:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=60173"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:57:53","slug":"de-tomaso-sport-5000-roadster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/de-tomaso-sport-5000-roadster\/","title":{"rendered":"De Tomaso Sport 5000 Roadster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actually, the De Tomaso Sport 5000 Roadster was supposed to mix up international sports car races. Actually. Instead, only a single example was ever produced, and it only drove in a single race. Sounds like an exciting story? Then sit back and read on. As has been the case so often lately, the first name to reappear in this story is a familiar one: Carroll Shelby. You might think that the chicken farmer from Texas was behind just about every sports car project in the 1960s. This time, however, he was just one of the people involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll Shelby’s friend in Italy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The year was 1963, and Shelby sent the King Cobra developed by him into the USAC and USRRC racing series. Three years later, these series joined forces to form the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or short Can-Am. The King Cobra, which was based on the Cooper Monaco, was initially successful. Soon, however, it was outclassed by the increasingly faster competition. Since Carroll Shelby was fully occupied with the production and further development of his Cobras, he turned to his old friend Alejandro de Tomaso in Italy. He asked him for the development of a new open sports prototype. De Tomaso, like Shelby, had given up his own racing career in favor of his own car brand. This was founded in 1959 and initially produced various Formula racing cars. With the Vallelunga, he finally ventured into the market for road-going sports cars. Now he received financial support from Shelby and set to work on a sports car prototype.<\/p>\n\n\n

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