There are no take-backs on the Internet. Especially when tens of thousands of people’re watching your social media accounts. But that seems to be fine with James Glickenhaus, the American filmmaker and owner/manager of boutique exotic shop Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG), who hasn’t even bothered to try to delete the Twitter and Instagram insults he recently lobbed at the new De Tomaso P72 and its creators. Glickenhaus quotes himself in an Instagram post from @glickenhaus (as well as in a Tweet) saying in no uncertain terms that the P72 directly rips off his P3/4 and P4/5, as well as interior features from Pagani. He also throw in a little diss on American artist Jeff Koons for some reason.  View this post on Instagram Due to the increasing cascade of posts like “Nah, I don’t see any similarities, LOL” and inquiries from the Fourth Estate, here are our responses: “They put tracing paper over our P 3/4, pasted on much of our P 4/5, stole an interior from Horacio, pumped it up like a Vargas Girl and turned it into Anime. I see Koons not Caravaggio.” Jim Glickenhaus “Copy, noun: ‘a thing made to be similar or identical to another’” Jesse Glickenhaus #ferrarip45bypininfarina A post shared by Glickenhaus (@glickenhaus) on Jul 8, 2019 at 7:41am PDTDe Tomaso claims the P72 is a new design inspired by the brand’s P70 of the early 1960s. The P70 began as a collaboration between Carroll Shelby, Alejandro De Tomaso and Peter Brock, with Shelby bringing the motor, De Tomaso the chassis and Brock the design. It was never officially finished. We refuse to take sides on this one, but the cars certainly have their similarities, including the shape of the front end, as well as the canopy. Just different enough to avoid actual plagiarism. Similar enough to the sincerest form of flattery. Think Ferrari Barchetta and AC Ace. Charles L. Rosenblum (@CharlzR) July 8, 2019As one Twitter commenter points out, maybe Glickenhaus should just take it as a compliment. De Tomaso will make just 72 of the P72s. And at US$1.1 million each, if they’re “copies” as Glickenhaus claims, they’re pretty darn good ones.
Origin: Is the new De Tomaso a copy of this Glickenhaus one-off?