Costruzione Automobili Intermeccanica

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Costruzione Automobili Intermeccanica

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founding 1959
resolution 1974
Seat Turin , Italy
management Frank Reisner
Branch Automobiles

Intermeccanica Puch IMP 700 GT Coupé from 1961, Johann Puch Museum Graz
Apollo 5000 GT
Griffith from 1966
Intermeccanica Italia from 1972
Murena GT from 1969
Intermeccanica Indra
Intermeccanica Squire

Costruzione Automobili Intermeccanica was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frank Reisner and his wife Paula founded the North-East Engineering Company in Turin in 1959 . It was later renamed Costruzione Automobili Intermeccanica . Intermeccanica was chosen as the brand name . First, they manufacture vehicle tuning kits . In 1960 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was initially IMP for a model. Subsequently, Intermeccanica developed and partially assembled vehicles for other manufacturers, whereby the distance between Italy and the US American partners was often a problem. In 1967 it was marketed as Intermeccanica . From 1973 onwards, business was bad. On December 25, 1974 the company was dissolved.

The Reisner family moved to the USA and founded Automobili Intermeccanica there .

vehicles

Formula junior racing car

In 1960 Intermeccanica's first complete vehicle was built. It was a Formula Junior racing car with a modified Peugeot engine. He stood behind the driver in front of the rear axle. The displacement was reduced to 1.1 l with liners and smaller pistons. The gearbox came from Fiat (Fiat used this type in the Fiat 600), but because of the mid-engine it was installed the other way around, i.e. with the clutch bell facing forward and the top facing down.

IMP 700 GT

From 1960 to 1961 there was the IMP 700 GT with the brand name IMP (for Intermeccanica Puch ). This was a small coupe . A boxer engine from Steyr Daimler Puch powered the vehicles. The two-cylinder boxer engine with 80 mm bore , 64 mm stroke and 645 cm³ displacement produced 40 hp in the series  version . Of these, 21 vehicles were built.

Apollo and Vetta Ventura

The Apollo was a two-seat sports car . Intermeccanica manufactured the chassis , the body and the interior fittings, with the completion of the cars mostly taking place at the Turin-based specialist company Carbondio . The finished cars were delivered to the USA. There were successively different companies that completed the vehicles and offered them under their names. From 1962 to 1964 it was International Motorcars (IMC for short) from Oakland , California with the brand name Apollo and the model Apollo GT . In 1964, Vanguard Motors Corporation from Dallas , Texas, continued the project under the Vetta Ventura brand . In 1965, the Apollo International Corporation , headed by lawyer Stevens, ordered more copies, for which the brand name Apollo has been passed down again . A source names 39 Apollo from IMC, 42 Vetta Ventura and 8 Apollo from Apollo International, a total of 89 vehicles. Another source names 88 vehicles. 77 two-seater coupés, one coupé with 2 + 2 seats and 11 convertibles have survived .

Griffith

A revised version as a coupé with 2 + 2 seats was created in 1966 for Griffith Motors from New York City . Plans totaled 1,000 vehicles. Nevertheless, only six of these vehicles were built.

omega

Steve Wilder took over the project and marketed it under the brand name Omega . The manufacturer was Suspensions International Corporation from Charlotte , North Carolina . In the only year of production, 1966, 33 vehicles were built.

Intermeccanica Torino and Italia

The car presented as Torino in March 1967 largely corresponded to the Omega. In October 1967 he was following appeal by Ford in Italia renamed. Production ran until 1973.

Murena GT

Intermeccanica manufactured the Murena GT for Murena Motors from New York City . This was a two-door station wagon with a V8 engine from Ford. Ten vehicles were built between March 1969 and March 1971.

Intermeccanica Indra

The successor to the Italia was the Intermeccanica Indra . Erich Bitter sold the vehicles in Germany. The model was produced between March 1971 and February 1975.

Intermeccanica Squire

In cooperation with Edward Felbin, Intermeccanica manufactured the Squire from 1973. This was a replica of the Jaguar SS100 . An open body made of glass fiber reinforced plastic was mounted on a ladder frame . A six-cylinder engine from the Ford Maverick powered the vehicles. From this 100 vehicles were built: 33 white, 32 yellow, 30 red and 5 green. Half had a manual transmission, the other half automatic .

Unique pieces

In 1965, a station wagon for J. Walter Thompson was created based on a Ford Mustang .

Based on a Chevrolet Corvair , there was the Phoenix for John Fitch & Co. in 1966 .

In June 1971, the four-door Centaur sedan was built on the chassis of a Chevrolet Corvette . The client was a Doctor Dean.

literature

  • Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 (English).
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Intermeccanica.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 116. (English)

Web links

Commons : Costruzione Automobili Intermeccanica  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Intermeccanica.
  2. ^ A b c d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 116. (English)
  3. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 119 (English).
  4. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=e_4j6Fnhr0QC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=intermeccanica++formel+junior&source=bl&ots=52rBH2lrwq&sig=LbolZgBmDr9-SBCsGeQpQuBb_yY&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWsZuTyM7fAhWQzqQKHc73A2MQ6AEIOzAJ#v=onepage&q=intermeccanica%20% 20formula% 20junior & f = false
  5. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 39 and p. 165 (English).
  6. ↑ Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 161.
  7. ^ A b c d Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 51 (English).
  8. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 167 (English).
  9. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 167-168 (English).
  10. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 182 (English).
  11. ^ A b c Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 186 (English).
  12. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 182-186 (English).
  13. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 112-119 (English).
  14. ↑ Andrew McCredie: Intermeccanica. The Story of the Prancing Bull . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , pp. 65 (English).