Coupe
Chassis number: S1C101128

Construzione Automobili Intermeccanica was founded in 1959 by Frank Reisner and was based in Torino, Italy but was later moved to Canada. Initially in the automotive tuning kit business, but later switched to automobile production. Their first cars were Formula Junior racers, fitted with a Peugeot engine. They later imported American V8 engines for installation in his road-going chassis. These cars were the Apollo GTs later to be replaced by the Omega.

These Italian-American hybrids, the Intermeccanica Omega, were styled by Franco Scaglione and Robert Cumberford. Frank Reisner designed the chassis, later including some changes suggested by Formula 1 engineer John Crosthwaite. Intermeccanica built the bodies in Torino, using steel panels hand-hammered in the old fashion over wooden bucks. The bodies were welded to 4-inch square tube frames and then sent to the North Carolina racing shop of Holman-Moody for final assembly.

In total, just 33 examples of the Omega were known to have been built.

This example is believed to have been sold new in the Southwest. It recently spent twenty years in the ownership of Roy Smalley, owner of Eurowerks, a restoration shop in Campbell, Texas. The current owner acquired the car from Smalley in 2008. Upon acquisition, the car had just completed a 15-year, show-quality bare-metal restoration. The body received a Glasurit respray in its original color. There is a new tan leather interior with matching carpets. The instrument panel is filled with a full complement of rebuilt Jaeger gauges. The odometer shows just 60 miles.

The engine is a Hi-Po Ford 289 cubic-inch V8 with an Edelbrock four-barrel carburetor mated to a four-speed Ford gearbox to a live rear axle.

by Dan Vaughan