1968 Intermeccanica Italia Spyder  Above Images ©IMAGE CREDITS -
Supercars.net  In 1967, Frank and Paula Reisner formed
Intermeccanica in Turin and began manufacturing the Italia
Spyder. Production began after a long series of events including
name, ownership and engineering changes. This can probably
explain why the Italian-American hybrid isn't more well known,
but does little to hide the car's Italian flair and V8
performance.  They story starts with Jack Griffith of New York
who was stuffing Ford V8s into small TVR chassis. The resulting
performance was tremendous, but not enough to keep the idea
afloat. Eventually English chassis production ran dry so he
turned to Frank Reisner of Intermeccanica, who had also produced
the Apollo GT, to make a chassis and body for his next car.
Designed by Bob Cumberford, the next Griffith was more bespoke
with a custom chassis and interior. The first Griffith GT
appeared at the 1965 New York Auto show, but that wasn't soon
enough to save Griffith's enterprise. Almost as