1972 Intermeccanica Italia Spyder

The original owner of the Italia, Charles M. Linn, was a US serviceman stationed in Europe. He purchased the car and drove it for about 2,500 miles before shipping it back to Michigan. Robert Belf purchased the car in1 973 from a Toyota Used Car Dealer in Royal Oak, Michigan. In 2001 his family sold the car with 7,600 miles on it. Between that time and 2004, the Italia passed through 2 or 3 car dealers. In 2006 Richard Klein purchased the Italia from a Maine car dealer with 8,500 miles on it. It is an 8,500 original miles car with new paint, top, and seat upholstery.

The Italia is an Italian chassis with some modified Ford bits, and a steel body, hand-formed in Turin. The Italia is a descendant of the Griffith GT. The chief engineer was a young engineering graduate named Mark Donohue. When Donohue and Jack Griffith couldn't make a success of the Griffith, Steve Wilder, Sports Car Illustrated writer and an MIT engineering graduate, teamed with Lee Holman, of Holman and Moody, to further develop a high-performance Italian-American car. This project became the Omega. The Omega was followed by a few cars carrying the name Torino, until Ford Motors objected. The final models were built when Franke Reisner's Carrozzeria IM completely assembled 411 Italias in Turin, with excellent quality control and the benefit of the previous four years of engineering development.

The Italia is one of life's great mysteries; it is an especially beautiful car. It is an Italian chassis with some modified Ford bits and a steel body hand-formed in Turin. The Italia is a descendant of the Griffith GT, and the chief engineer was a young engineering graduate named Mark Donohue. When Donohue and Jack Griffith couldn't make a success of the Griffith, Steve Wilder, a Sports Car Illustrated writer, and an MIT engineering graduate, teamed with Lee Holman, of Holman & Moody fame, to further develop a high-performance Italian-American car. The final models were built when Frank Reisner's Carrozzeria IM completely assembled 411 Italias in Turin, with excellent quality control and the benefit of the previous four years' engineering development.