Puzzle #1087 0 Solved! Intermeccanica Centaur

[D-type]

South African?

[barrett]

Okay Ray, open again.

It's not from South Africa

[RayTheRat]

Quick wild-assed guess: 63 Corvette Rondine by Pinifarina?

[barrett]

No, later than '63 and not by Pininfarina

[barrett]

Up...

[João]

It's a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Sedan Proposal by Ghia?

[Quiller]

Intermeccanica Centaur

[Quiller]

Corvette-based one-off. Clearly a four-door in the pic (from the glorious Intermeccanica book), though one website lists it as a two-door

[Otto Puzzell]

Was there more than one Centaur?  http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5853.0

[75america]

And the rest of the missing info:

Intermeccanica Centaur, based on a V8 Corvette.  The project started in 1965 and was delivered somewhere around June 1971 to the American urologist Dr. Dean.

[sixtee5cuda]

Does the puzzle pic appear in the Intermeccanica book?

[barrett]

Right, it's the Centaur. There was only one, and I did search for it, but you know how that goes... Maybe somebody can merge now?

I've given Quiller the point for the initial ID though 75america added the full info. It was based on a V8 Corvette for a Dr. Dean who felt a flashy sports car wasn't suitable for a man of his profession so had Intermeccanica build a '4 door Corvette' for him.

I've only ever seen photos of the car in an unfinished state though there must be some evidence of the completed car out there (why wasn't it in the Intermeccanica book though??), so another point is at stake for anyone that can provide an image of the finished article. I'd hope that it still exists somewhere out there too...

[Otto Puzzell]

Merged

[Allemano]

Strange thing that it's not clear if it got two doors or four....

[Allemano]

Corvette-based one-off. Clearly a four-door in the pic (from the glorious Intermeccanica book), though one website lists it as a two-door

By looking at the b+w pic I got the idea that it's maybe only a (still) oversized body sheet that pretends a door that never existed (?!)

Or that the red two-door coupe got actually four doors?

[Otto Puzzell]

I agree. The color picture is not too clear, so hard to say.

[D-type]

Are these the same car?  There are so many differences!

[Allemano]

There are so many differences!

such as ... ?

[Tom_I]

Not a very good picture I'm afraid, but from this it was clearly built as a four-door saloon/sedan.

[Quiller]

No, the colour pic doesn't appear in the Intermeccanica book - only the two B&W pics as posted here. Despite the excellence of the book, I think the full story of Intermeccanica has yet to be told...