Gallery: Legendary Designer Tom Tjaarda on the Eternal Beauty of Italian Cars

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    A De Tomaso Pantera on display at the Concorso Italiano on August 20, 2016 in Monterey, CA.
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    A De Tomaso Pantera on display at the Concorso Italiano on August 20, 2016 in Monterey, CA.
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    Fiat 124 Spiders on display at the Concorso Italiano in Monterey, CA on August 20, 2016.
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    Fiat 124 Spiders lined up on the green at the Black Horse Golf Course at the Concorso Italiano in Monterey, CA on August 20, 2016.
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    Interior of Tom Tjaarda's De Tomaso Pantera
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    Tom Tjaarda's Fiat 124 Spider on the road in the 1960s.
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    A 1973 De Tomaso Pantera 7X
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