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Intermeccanica Murena 429 GT - Eccentric express station wagon

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Created on March 10, 2020

Reading time 6min

Written by:

Daniel Koch

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Corey Escobar - Courtesy of RM Auctions

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Darin Schnabel - Courtesy RM Auctions

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Corey Escobar - Courtesy of RM Auctions

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Darin Schnabel - Courtesy RM Auctions

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - 300 cm Radstand, und 520 cm Gesamtlänge

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Aussergewöhnliches Heck

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - 190 cm breiter Sportkombi

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Unter der langen Front steckte ein Ford V8 Motor

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Typische Shooting Brake Silhouette

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Heckscheibe mit Heizung

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Cockpit in rot und weiss

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Einzelsitze auch hinten

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Der Innenraum wurde etwas modernisiert

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Die Instrumente dürften nachträglich erneuert worden sein

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Der 7 Liter grosse Ford V8 Motor leistete run 280 PS

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Die Stahlkarosserie wurde bei Intermeccanica gebaut

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Chassis Nummer 69001414

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Karosserie von Intermeccanica

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Pirelli Centurato Reifen in der Dimension 205:16

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Intermeccanica Italia Spyder (1968) - die Form stammt von Franco Scaglione

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Intermeccanica Murena (1969) - Wie er ab Werk geliefert wurde

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Summary

The recipe was simple: two wealthy friends sketched a luxurious estate car with two doors, commissioned Intermeccanica to realize the idea and had the eccentrically designed Shooting Break fitted with a 7-litre V8 engine with more than sufficient power. The result was an impressive luxury vehicle! This report tells the story of the rare sports estate and shows it in many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

Big and fast
Two friends
Italian design
Illustrious clientele
Delivery of the first vehicle
The trade press is also impressed
Plenty of propulsion
In the sports car league
For the US market
Small series

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

It's easy to imagine that the Intermeccanica Murena must have looked like something from another planet in 1969, among the other cars of the sixties. The British call the body shape "Shooting Break", and today the Italian with the American V8 heart looks like a wild mixture of a Lamborghini Espada and a Reliant Scimitar. The idea of building the fastest and most luxurious estate car in the world came from two Americans, Charles Schwendler and Joseph Vos. The friends liked to go skiing in the mountains, but were annoyed that they didn't have a sporty vehicle with enough space. Their Porsche 911 was fun to drive but had too little storage space, and their station wagon was spacious but not sporty.

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