TVR vs Intermeccanica

[Cathelijne]

Some week ago someone mentioned that the Intermeccanica is similar to TVR Tasmin 1st serie. We think he's right about that See for yourself.

(The builder of the Intermeccanica has also worked on the Griffith)

[wedgeman]

Looks great - a 70's cross between a Tasmin & a Corvette Stingray..

[stainless_steve]

I like it

[grahamw48]

I think it's a nicer looking car than the Tasmin.
Better nose, and less slab-sided.
Very pretty IMO.

[firefox1712]

Wow! Where did you get that picture?

The pic I referred to, when I mentioned the similarity, was a motor show shot featured in one of the classic car mags from about 2 months ago, in an article on Intermeccanica/Appllo.

The coupe also bears a good resemblance to the Maserati Khamsin.

The original Intermeccanica/Appollo was rather like the Ferrari 275 GTB and 330/365 series.

Do you have any more photos of the red car?

>> Edited by firefox1712 on Monday 18th October 12:25

>> Edited by firefox1712 on Monday 18th October 12:29

[Cathelijne]

firefox1712 said:

Wow! Where did you get that picture? Do you have any more photos of the red car?

The picture of the Meccanica is from a (I believe 2nd hand) book. There is another pic in it, which is a quite small but if I scan it at 600 dpi it should be fine

>> Edited by Cathelijne on Monday 18th October 11:56

[jchase]

There are also some nice pictures of it at

www.carsfromitaly.com/others/index.html

follow the intermechanicca link. Also worth looking at the Maserati Khamsin pictures on this site - all very similar wedge shapes.

-Jim

[tallbloke]

This angle shows how much more rounded the nose is.



Great looking car though.

[tallbloke]

Is this an earlier one with the chrome bumper?

[janneman]

The last car with the chrome bumper is the intermeccanica italia.
Build only 1000 of it.
It has the 5766 cc v8 motor from yhe Ford Mustang.
Build from 1966- 1970.
The first picture of this topic is a Intermeccanica Indra build on a chassis from Opel Diplomat, a 2784 cc motor or a V 8 with 5354 or a 5733 cc.
It was build from 1971 till 1973, after just a couple of hundred cars was it the end of intermeccanica.

[firefox1712]

Well, this is a difficult one. I think that while the original car was called the Intermeccanica Italia, a batch of them were known as the Indra also (Germany?). The first car in Roger's (Tallbloke) post is a different car - perhaps it is an interim car (unless it was a proposed revival car) and it carried over the Indra name which I think may have also been used for the car at the top of the thread.

Because of the various financial and political difficulties with the company, various names were used, and I believe Intermeccanica cars were also known as Appllo.

Intermeccanica still carries on making cars - replicas of the Porsche 356 Speedster!

[cuneus]

Coupe

[janneman]

the well now Jack Griffith wanted a high- performance GT coupe so he install a Ford 298 engine in the squat but distinctive TVR body.
About 265 were sold in a little over a year.
The project was hit by one of TVR many changes of ownership.
Griffith then planned to buy body/ chassis units from Intermeccanica of Turin, but ran out of money after only thirteen cars had been delivered.
The project was taken over by Stephen Wilder who changed the car,s name to Omega.
Another Italo- American car was the Apollo, a GT coupe slightly reminiscent of the E- type Jaguar in appearance,
powered by a 3,5 litre buick engine.
Bodys came again from Intermeccanica, and the car was first offered by Internationaal Motor Cars of Oakland, California, and then by Apollo International Corporation of Pasadena.
Sales were disappointing, and after a change of name to Vetta Ventura the car disappeared.