The Spyder was built on chassis 8MA 512 in 1967. It featured the most visually extreme modifications of the three and was executed by Giorgetto Giugiaro for Ghia. The roof was entirely removed and the flat rear deck modified so as to retain spectacular centrally-hinged gullwing engine covers. Strangely for a roadster, Giugiaro chose to retain chrome window surrounds for each door, but stranger still was the two-tone colour scheme. With the lower half finished in white and the top half a reddish orange, extra definition came from an accentuated belly strip. A bank of engine-cooling vents was carved out from each of the gullwing panels, Ghia completing 8MA 512 with a custom-made hardtop. First shown at the Turin Salon in November 1967, it's doubtful whether De Tomaso wanted to put a Spyder into limited production and instead, this one-off merely served as a useful publicity tool.
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