1967 Intermeccanica Omega

Sold for $73,700 at 2014 Bonhams - The Scottsdale Auction.
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.

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 Daniel Vaughan | Jan 2014