| Author | Message | ||
| Mike Dawson (Miked)
Junior Member Username: Miked Post Number: 102 Registered: 2-2001 |
Some good Miura web sites: http://www.miurasv.com/4870/index.html http://www.lambomiura.com/ http://www.motorsnippets.com/miura_register/ http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/intro.html click on "cars" then select "Miura" | ||
| Mike Dawson (Miked)
Junior Member Username: Miked Post Number: 101 Registered: 2-2001 |
Some good Miura web sites: http://www.miurasv.com/4870/index.html http://www.lambomiura.com/ http://www.motorsnippets.com/miura_register/ http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/intro.html click on "cars" then select "Miura" from "muirasv.com" web site:  | ||
| PSk (Psk)
Member Username: Psk Post Number: 510 Registered: 11-2002 |
I believe I saw one driving along the M2 motorway in Sydney a few months back ... could not believe my eyes. If it had been possible I would have turned around and followed it, to get a better look ... Pete | ||
| Dr. J C928 (Attitude928)
New member Username: Attitude928 Post Number: 43 Registered: 11-2002 |
I know it won #1 sexiest car and I know it may be taboo to say, but for me, those front lights are too much. The lines of the 400GT look better to my eye. | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1105 Registered: 10-2001 |
The SV is the most beautiful Lambo . | ||
| Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Member Username: Dapper Post Number: 703 Registered: 4-2002 |
In S form quite possibly THE most beautiful car ever made. | ||
| Tyson Hall (Trhall)
New member Username: Trhall Post Number: 29 Registered: 6-2003 |
The car is now being offered at Autosport Designs.    | ||
| Tyson Hall (Trhall)
New member Username: Trhall Post Number: 28 Registered: 6-2003 |
pics  ) | ||
| Tyson Hall (Trhall)
New member Username: Trhall Post Number: 27 Registered: 6-2003 |
Here is the description Christies gave. Think of the most sensational road car available in the Sixties and you would have to say it was the Lamborghini Miura -- the car that Ferruccio Lamborghini proudly drove to Casino Square during the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix weekend and wowed the crowds with. Four litres of V12 magnificence breathing through a bank of Weber carburettors, the whole ensemble mounted transversely and sitting behind the driver and passenger, capable of a whopping 325bhp and 163mph, all clothed in stunning Bertone bodywork. The Miura was THE car to see and be seen in, and well heeled clients, who sometimes had to wait a year for their prize, included the likes of 60s Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Briggs Cunningham and Rod Stewart. The first owner of this car, chassis number 4407, a 1970 P400S, was none other than Mr. Frank Sinatra. Legend has it that the great performer arrived at the Sant' Agata works outside Turin carrying a roll of 'Wild Boar' skin leather under his arm and instructed the factory to build him a Miura with Arancio (Orange Metallic) paintwork and trimmed with the Pelle Cinghiale leather he had in hand! The car was delivered directly to Mr. Sinatra rather than through the established U.S. concessionaire Modena Cars of New York, and the factory register simply states the accepting first owner as "Sinatra". Apparently Sinatra gave the car to model Gloria Kent and she subsequently traded it for a new Lamborghini Countach LP400. The current private owner purchased it in 1977 when it had just 33,000 recorded miles and has kept the Miura dry-stored ever since, the current mileage reading an amazing 36,840 from new! Thus it is fabulously original condition today, with its fitted 8-track stereo player, trimmed with the one-off wild boar leather interior and orange shag carpeting and still has its original metallic orange paintwork. The Christie's auction in Rockefeller Center on June 5 could hardly be more appropriate for such an iconic car with such illustrious ownership history. | ||
| Omar (Auraraptor)
Member Username: Auraraptor Post Number: 646 Registered: 9-2002 |
Thanks Tyson. That seems high for the car, unless was it a 100 point? Or was the ownership history what gave it that; unless my thoughts on Miura prices are really off. | ||
| Tyson Hall (Trhall)
New member Username: Trhall Post Number: 25 Registered: 6-2003 |
150,500 | ||
| Omar (Auraraptor)
Member Username: Auraraptor Post Number: 643 Registered: 9-2002 |
Just wondering, how much did it go for anyway? What exactly was the condition etc? Thanks all. | ||
| James Glickenhaus (Napolis)
Intermediate Member Username: Napolis Post Number: 1509 Registered: 10-2002 |
Frank Sinatra's is being auctioned off on thrus at 2pm in Rock Center. The cars are worth checking out. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 4430 Registered: 8-2002 |
've never seen one in person... one day, though, i hope to... The pictures just denote such an exoticacy about them... | ||
| Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Intermediate Member Username: Amenasce Post Number: 1068 Registered: 10-2001 |
They are out there ! i saw a few lately in Europe and one was at the Greenwich concours last week end . | ||
| michael Alpert (Taters)
New member Username: Taters Post Number: 45 Registered: 5-2003 |
I have not seen one in years where did they go? |