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"THE" Intermeccanica Roadster is available

FM Former Member
After much debate, and some healthy discussions with my buddy Lane, I have decided that "THE" Intermeccanica Roadster can go to a new home. By this time tomorrow, it will be on eBay. Here are the specifics:

This is THE Intermeccanica Poster Child
This is THE Intermeccanica featured in the 11/08 Issue of Kit Car Magazine
This is THE Intermeccanica that has been in two TV Commercials

Titled: IM Roadster, 2006, no lien
Color: Glasuirt Mexico Blue
Interior: Spinney Beck full leather in Cream Beige w/ Mexico Blue Piping
Motor: CB Performance 2100cc, 145 bhp
Mileage: 4900
Rain: Never
Options: Every Single Solitary option Henry offers other than heated seats, including A/C, electric windows, cocoa mats, fire extinguisher, keyless alarm & lock, Clarion CD/MP3, 4 speakers & hidden antenna, mini spare, billet pedals & billet dead pedal, koni adjustable shocks, 4 wheel disc brakes, halogen lights with wire covers, Hela driving lights, cover, full tonneau, yadda yadda

New Stuff (less than 300 miles): A/C compressor, clutch, (all graciously supplied by Henry Reisner) & premium Interstate Battery

All Mechanical Work: Mark Finley at ReZoom 423-323-3092

MSRP: $60,000

Make me an offer.............

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FM Former Member
After much debate, and some healthy discussions with my buddy Lane, I have decided that "THE" Intermeccanica Roadster can go to a new home. By this time tomorrow, it will be on eBay. Here are the specifics:

This is THE Intermeccanica Poster Child
This is THE Intermeccanica featured in the 11/08 Issue of Kit Car Magazine
This is THE Intermeccanica that has been in two TV Commercials

Titled: IM Roadster, 2006, no lien
Color: Glasuirt Mexico Blue
Interior: Spinney Beck full leather in Cream Beige w/ Mexico Blue Piping
Motor: CB Performance 2100cc, 145 bhp
Mileage: 4900
Rain: Never
Options: Every Single Solitary option Henry offers other than heated seats, including A/C, electric windows, cocoa mats, fire extinguisher, keyless alarm & lock, Clarion CD/MP3, 4 speakers & hidden antenna, mini spare, billet pedals & billet dead pedal, koni adjustable shocks, 4 wheel disc brakes, halogen lights with wire covers, Hela driving lights, cover, full tonneau, yadda yadda

New Stuff (less than 300 miles): A/C compressor, clutch, (all graciously supplied by Henry Reisner) & premium Interstate Battery

All Mechanical Work: Mark Finley at ReZoom 423-323-3092

MSRP: $60,000

Make me an offer.............

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FM Former Member
I posted a reply at the unobtanium site, and thanked them for the publicity and flattery. Remember when you buy a puppy, most of the litter wil be listed as "pet quality", and occasionally one will be a "show quality dog". Something tells me these lovers of rust & leaks are all pet quality folks. And as I wrote on their blog, I think the Porsche family appreciates folks like Henry Reisner carrying on the 356 model & the 356 look to a level UNOBTAINABLE in the 1950's !

Perhaps in homage to www.356registry.org, we should find a rusted hulk of an original Speedster, dump it all in a grinder, and then bless each new IM, Beck, VPS, etc with a sprinkling of dust from the original. Certainly a pious event, and enough to qualify our "plastic fantastics" (thanx Lane) as authentic 356 automobiles.

Remember the quintisennial quote about materialism from Still Bill,
"Let them that don't want none have pleasent memories of not gettin' any !"
O orthohbb1
Ive often asked myself. why did build my own IM speedster when for not too much additional coin, I could drive a nice, almost new 911 Cab Carrera "S" with low miles. What a great color you chose. Everyone has a different take on these Replicas. But when 911 Turbos. Cabs, Caymans, Boxsters snap there heads when I drive my "little" IM speedster 6, I know why. There ain't NO ONE on the road that looks like mine. I love Porsches, but I picked out every detail, kept me up at night, stayed awake just thinking about options, color, motor, performance, etc. But the last thing is that I can get 50-60k all day for the next ten years for my IM. Cant say that for a production car. I must say Im am a little envious. Just love that Yellow, Good Luck!
Jack CrosbyJack CrosbyHot Springs, AR, VS RabyTypeIV
Thanks, Jim--very interesting.

Tom--kudos on your reply. I note no one has challenged what you said
--I sure wouldn't.

I enjoyed the way the folks crowded around your IM at last fall's "tail Of The Dragon" while the guy with the metal car who joined us said "well, mine is real" to any passers-by who would listen.

I like your new 911, I like your IM better. Side by side the Speedie would draw more ohhs and ahha to the average person. Just my personal thing--I am aware of the enormous in cost and performance.

Good luck on your ebay sale--someone will get a great car.

See you at Carlisle this year?---Jack
FM Former Member
My sincere apologies for not having time last weekend to let Lane, Mike & Aaron take a brief run in BIGBIRD.

FYI: The Beck Speedsters (using Lane's as an example) is a tighter fit that the IM Roadster. My right leg was rubbing on the shifter in Lane's car. This is not the case in my IM, but still I find my thighs cramping on long drives in the IM.

As for Jack's inquiry about Carlisle, I am currently scheduled to work the NHRA event ay Bristol that weekend. Gonna be loud, I mean beyond loud.........

Hope you guys have better weather than last year.
FM Former Member
Tom: It was very good meeting you and Aaron last weekend. Having had a 911, I can only imagine yours as a marvelous driving machine. I would fear that if we switched cars for a stint, you might have ended up off the road and into the trees. Muscling the old Healey around those tight turns after just coming from your car would have been something scary. Keeping up with Aaron and Lane took all the concentration I could muster. As I said on the weekend, no doubt those turns were much more exciting in my car. And when I'd look off to see how high up we were and how steep the drop off was, I couldn't help from hugging the center lines. With you holding up the rear in Big Bird, I wondered if your job was to mark the spot where I went off the mountain.

It was great fun with great people.

Mike Lempert
O oilfieldcarguy
I was pretty amused by the "Unobtanium" site.

My cousin owns wholesale diamond biz --- supplies both small stores and some big name elite stores (think of one starts with "T"). Family also has some retail locations.

The big thing now is to "enhance" diamonds with lasers -- basically zapping flaws out, which can, in the right hands, make formerly-flawed diamonds appear (even to a loop) flawless.

It's still an expensive process, and where it really makes a difference is that formerly fatally-flawed bigger (5+ karat) stones can now be sold as a single stone, when they used to have to be broken up to make little stones.

Anyway, the retailers of the bigger naturally-flawless stones have gone ape shit about the process, claiming only their are "authentic" etc, and are on a complete rampage about the "fakes" (which are, again, real diamonds, just fixed with newer, cooler, technology).

That turkey is just like the "100% natural stone" guys --- they try to hype up a difference that is just not there.

The IM is a product that is just as good, if not better, and his investment in 50 year old "patina" is looking, well, faded.
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