The End Of An Era... [PIC]

The collaboration between Jack Griffith, Trevor Wilkinson (TVR) and Frank Reisner (Intermecannica) to produced those beautiful GT cars came to a crashing end with the advent of the US governments sweeping safety and efficiency standards of 1968. Griffith's last project with Intermecannica was the Griffith series 600. For this GT coupe, Griffith went the Chrysler for their 273 cid Plymouth Commando V8 and their 3 speed TorqueFlite or 4 speed. After producing somewhere between 6 and 10 of these cars under the Griffith name plate, he went bankrupt and sold the rights to Steve Weidler who built 33 as the Omega GT and then sold the Omega name to GM. With the 273 V8, they could have met the emissions requirements but not the safety standards especially with the 5 mph crash bumper demands. Well, even though Griffith didn't survive, TVR and Intermecannica had the resources to rebound and thrive until today. For Intermecannica,  The 600's all steel body designed by Reisner  Franco Scaglione became the "Italia" with engineering input by Mark Donohue.

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