Intermeccanica F Jr

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.