Lamborghini Miura S #3946

+365 & 308,pity they are so crook to drive in the city,lucky you're closish to a freeway,eh!

 

Very beautiful indeed.

I see its very nearly got your Number Plate.

 

Gorgeous car as always. Would you happen to know it's history?

 

Great car and colour! Thanks for the pics.

That plate looks **** house unfortunately!

 

It looks sensational. Great photos Carl.

 

Your photography use to be way better than this ....... lift your game mate

That car has my numberplate, I'd better buy it

 

I didn't know your middle name is "loser"


















































actually, yes I did.

 

well I WAS stupid enough to buy your 355

 

buy it? you stole it.

 

$50k was WAY too much in hindsight !!!

The torch in the books was missing !!!

 

both my 308 tool kits have one....plus now, I have a spare.

 

Poor Simon

 

Ex Mark J. Bobileff resto, won best in show at Concorso a couple of years ago. Very nice car.

John

 

+355

 

Mark sold it not that long ago. I'm surprised it's back on the market so quickly, but then again they are much better to look at than drive.

 

Where did you take that one ?

 

You raise three really good points Carl........firstly, almost any exotic needs to be well set up for it to drive well....it just needs a few issues to really dampen the experience.....mainly b/c they aren't easy to drive well and any issue is amplified compared to a mundane car....secondly, lambo's nearly always get a bad rap for being inferior to Ferraris. When I grew up during the 70's and 80's, I nearly exclusively read Car magazine and Supercar Classics and the journo's at the time (Mel Nichols and Steve Cropley) were nearly always pro-lambo .......thirdly, comparing the size of the Miura to the Daytona made me recalled a road test in Supercar Classics (July 88) where they photographed the pair together that show just how similar in size the two rivals were.....and for once, the lime green Miura SV was judged as the better classic/exotic b/c although the Daytona was the better car overall, as a weekend play thing, the SV was better braked, turned in better, lighter to drive and just plain more exciting as a collector car.

 

I have had the good fortune to drive most of the iconic Lambos and there is no doubt they have an edge in terms of excitement and occasion.

But I was always happy to get out of them after 20 minutes and never remotely tempted to buy. Apart from anything else, they are not hot climate cars.

In the 80's Miuras were 308 money, wildly more exotic, but more trouble than they were worth.

Of course in hindsight, I should have bought the red over gold Miura for the 60K the owner was asking... now an LP400 remains on my bucket list, but I'll have to work a bit harder and longer to get there.

 

I've never hankered for a Lambo except for a LP 400 (orange please) and a P300 Urraco/Silhouette but doesn't mean I don't appreciate them for what they are.
Thats the key to a Lambo-to understand that they are special occasion cars that you got to be in the mood to drive. When you do, the peaks are higher........you do raise another good point Ian.....whether the car suits our hot climate. I simply do not enjoy my car on a hot summers day....however, the evening is a different matter.