In our recent article about the somewhat mysterious
intermeccanica
Ford’s Italian Shooting Brake
Story by Wallace Wyss
In 1964, it seemed like the entire world loved the Ford Mustang. Even the Italians welcomed Iacocca’s baby, and when Canadian Frank Reisner, who ran Intermeccanica in Turin, heard that an American ad agency wanted him to rebody a Mustang, he leapt at the chance. Reisner was already a Mustang fan and owner, having ordered a green 289 convertible for his wife Paula to drive in Italy. “It was my first car ever,” she said. The couple used it to drive from their new apartment in Coazze to Turin, where Frank was engaged in constructing a new Scaglione-designed coupe called the Veltro Titiana.
“Intermeccanica, The Story of The Prancing Bull”
Hardback, 192 pages, 200 photos.
$79.95 USD, plus $20 Shipping
By Andrew McCredie as told by Paula Reisner
VelocePublishing Ltd.
Dorset, England
ISBN 978-1-845842-49-9
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The Irrepressible Frank Reisner and his Creations
By Pete Vack
Photos courtesy of the author and Veloce Publishing
I couldn’t help thinking of Frank Sinatra when I read Andrew McCredie’s book, “Intermeccanica, The Story of The Prancing Bull”. We all fall down and pick ourselves up and get back into the race, and we all think we do things our way, but Frank Reisner really, really did, even more than ol’ blue eyes himself.
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The Intermeccanica Formula Junior: The Rest of the Story
The Intermeccanica Formula Junior, Sam's place, June 2004.
By Pete Vack
As we have seen, after describing the car to a tee, author Andrew McCredie left us all hanging about wondering whatever happened to the one off Frank Reisner F Jr, from its last race in Canada to the present time, a gap of some 47 years. What happened to the car was Sam. Here is the story the book omitted.
Guys are incredibly insensitive sometimes, cruelly defining even friends not by who he or she is, but by what cars they own, as if the vehicle was more important than the owner. Contact begins with not “Hey Sam, how have you been,” but with “Hey Sam, you still have the Intermeccanica?” We are as guilty of this sin as anyone, and we all do it from time to time, I would guess. [Read more…] about The Intermeccanica Formula Junior: The Rest of the Story
Reappraising the Apollo
The original lines for the Apollo were penned by Art Center graduate Ron Plescia. Il Maestro Franco Scaglione was called in to smooth out the details and prepare the body for production. Harold Pace photo
By Robb Northrup
Northrup is the president of the Apollo Owners Registry. Readers interested in the Apollo can suscribe to the group’s (somewhat) quarterly free e-newsletter by contacting apolloregistry@yahoo.com
The Apollo GT was one of the best marriages of Italian style with American muscle and reliability. Yet, many enthusiasts are unaware of this Ferrari contender, 88 examples of which were built by hand in Italy and assembled in Oakland, California during 1963-65.
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