You should contact Robert Ruskey at: Intermeccanica@telus.net . He's a busy man but he will get back to you. I bought a 1988 and was able to get all the info they had on the car. Your's being a 1989 is a tube frame chassis. You could get a certificate of authenticity for $75. Here's the info Robert sent me about my car (free). Henry and Robert have been very helpful all along.
Hi Jean-Claude,
Thanks you for your e-mail.
Henry was basing his response on the build year of the car (1987-88) since he didn’t have any records in front of him at the time.
Generally speaking, 1987-88 was the ‘transition year’ between building our cars on VW pans and building them on our new tube frame chassis, so some cars built in that year were still on VW pans.
I’ve looked up a brief summary record of Roadster IM12121 and it was in fact built on our new tubular steel chassis (not a VW pan).
It was the 24th car to be built using our tube chassis.
The brief record summary shows that it is a 1988 car, being ordered in October 1987 and delivered in January 1988.
It was originally Porsche Guard Red in colour and yes, it did originally leave Intermeccanica production facility with Recaro seats.
Other features originally with car as delivered:
- Cut-pile carpet, colour: Charcoal
- Floor mats
- Black leather steering wheel
- Full leather interior, colour: Black
- Haartz STAYFAST convertible top, colour: Black
- Recaro seats, full leather
- 2100cc high performance engine, 140hp
- Custom widened 7” x 15” chrome rear wheels with 195/60 x 15 tires
- Fitted front mask/bra
- Alpine AM/FM stereo cassette player with automatic antenna.
It was originally sold as a coach and completed into a running automobile by a company in Sumas, WA making it a ‘US Built’ car.
It was then delivered to its original customer in Del Mar, California, in January 1988.
This comprises the entire informational record available from Intermeccanica for this car.
Best regards,
Robert Ruskey
Intermeccanica International Inc.
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