Intermeccanica for sale on BaT

Pretty nice. The only thing I’d do to it is a set of Smiths gauges and skinnier tires.

Love the color (exterior and interior).  Was not aware IM got into Jaguar replicas.

Geeze - only 50 made! hen's teeth.

We’re these built in Italy and the Ford engine / trans  installed in the USA ?

or the Ford parts sent to Italy ?     Or ???????

From one ad for one of the 44 surviving cars -

The Squire was built in Italy exclusively for the American market, under a contract with Auto Sport Importers Inc, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The initial intention was to build at least 100 cars, and to this end, 100 complete Ford drive-trains were purchased and shipped to Italy. As one historian diplomatically put it, during the trip from the US to the Intermeccanica manufacturing facility, “there was a severe shrinkage of this inventory.” In the end, it was probably a good thing that the build only came to a total of 50 cars because while all were built during 1972 and 1973, the last of the new vehicles didn’t find themselves a home until 1975.

Il think they were pretty cool and unique!

One with a 4 spd manual would be nice.  Just an ugly shock when you open the hood and see a ford blue 6 cylinder when you anticipated a beautiful twin OHC Jaguar straight six!

Decades ago my friend bought a real XK 140 with a Ford straight 6 , it fit nice and probably saved the car from the crusher since fixing a stock Jag motor back then was much more than the cars value.

Reading some of the BAT replies , it looks like Australia has Hop Up parts as these motors were put in Aussie Falcons.

I think the original SS 100 did not have the twin-cam XK engine though. It was a big 6, but an earlier iteration, OHV with pushrods.

UPDATE:

-which really isn't so far from

especially if you spring for a Clifford intake for dual Webers

...though better yet might be the Chebby version which puts the intake works on the correct side of the valve cover...

And another SS100 replica. This one is very unusual.