Anyone have knowledge of the location of 1967 P400 Lamborghini Miura #3108. It was born Yellow with Blue interior, not sure if it is still this way today. It was owned by F1 Race Car driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise... Maybe Joe you have run across this car? Thanks in Advance.
Hi Roy, I'm also interested in any new infos about this early French-delivered Miura. I've understood that this car was ordered new by French singer "Christophe" in 1967 to period French importer "Voitures Paris Monceau". A few month later, he's supposed to have sold his Miura to the french F1-driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise. During his ownership, J.P.B. had a serious accident with #3108 and he qualified the situation as "no-more car after the accident" when asked about it by french journalists. in 2016, #3108 is still supposed to be in France but I've personally never seen it - and I don't know if it is in fact a finished / restored / running car ? or still a wreck + its ex. J.P.B. French registration papers ? ... Beside all this, there is a great picture of Jean-Pierre Beltoise with a Miura in the last Book of Tonino Lamborghini : "Ferruccio Lamborghini - La Storia Ufficiale" : I suppose the Miura in the picture is #3108. (Copyright Tonino Lamborghini) Roy : PM me in case you need some more details and infos about #3108 Image Unavailable, Please Login
In fact, the late great Bob Wallace told me personally that he was the passenger in the car at the time of the accident, and he (Bob) broke his hip as a result and ended up in hospital. JPB was demonstrating his driving skills @ 140 mph. In the wet. They both dodged a bullet.
Per my answer above, never came across it, but it doesn't mean Lamborghini did not use this chassis number again for another car as happened on occasion in that period. This appears to be the case.
LOL Gawd I can't imagine a wreck at that speed in something as flimsy as a 60's Miura. Lucky indeed! None of the cars back then were safe though. The stupid s*** we did!
True. I sold Ron E's Miura, and the soon after found him an F40 (chassis number 85269, the 11th Tipo USA F40) which he still has. It's worth noting though that the Miura was an SV, chassis number 5106, a very late car.
Bear in mind this was @ 10 years ago, the Miura needed a TOTAL restoration and the F40 was a pristine as-new car with less than @ 500 miles!
5106 has since been totally last-nut-and-bolt restored in its original Rio Verde Metallizzato and belongs to a Venture Capitalist in Northern California. The seller had owned the SV since 1974 and did not care to undertake a restoration. He ended up with an as-new example of his dream car, the F40. I think everyone was happy. Image Unavailable, Please Login
That color is fantastic on that car. Almost as fantastic as verde aqua on my Espada .... OK it's better but only slightly LOL
The gentleman has his own private restoration shop in Northern California, and they did it in-house, with stunning results.
#5106 was first delivered thru Hubert Hahne (Germany). So it was later on converted to US-specs? It´s funny, #5006 was also delivered new in Rio Verde Metalizzatto and to Germany too. Like a sister car Interior was slightly different. #5006 is full senape and #5106 is senape with black dashboard. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yes, only the recessed-type side-markers, so Ron Edwards could bring it to the USA. The pic you posted was taken in Scotland, where Ron drove the car directly from Germany! 1972 MIURA SV Chassis #5106 Engine #30755 Prod. #758. 22 Aug 1972. Air conditioned. Rio Verde Metallizzato. To Hubert Hahne. Purchased from Hubert Hahne by William Edwards of Bakersfield, California in the mid-70s. Interestingly, Ron knew Walter Wolf. MIURA SV 5106 HISTORY BY RON EDWARDS "I worked for an American oil company in Scotland during the period 1974 through most of 1981. I was in offshore construction, actually supervisor then manager for installing the ill-fated Piper Alpha platform. We required lots of saturation diving, as the platform and all the pipelines were in very deep water (~500 feet). One of the diving companies I used a lot was KD Marine, which was wholly owned by Walter Wolf. I had owned an Espada for about a year, and when Walter found out about it, we became friends. It was only then that I came to know that he was involved with the factory during late 70s. Talking one day, I said what I really wanted when I bought the Espada was a two seater sports car. Walter said he would keep his eyes open, and a few months later, he called to say he had a friend (Hubert Hahne) in Dusseldorf that had some used Lamborghini Miuras to sell. The cheapest of the lot was 5106, as it had a burned bottom end. It had belonged to another German industrialist who had driven it without enough oil. So, inclusive in the negotiated price of DM32,000 was a trip to the factory for a rebuild (added about $5,000 to the price). When I picked the car up in Dusseldorf in winter of 1977 from Hubert, we drove along the Autobahn where Hubert showed me about starting, warming up, etc. At the time the car had exactly 14,000 km on it. "On the evening before I was to leave to drive back to Scotland, we went to a filling station where I filled it up and it cost me $64. I think that was the most I ever paid for a tank of gas, even up to today! Hubert and I had dinner and I left very early the next morning to drive from Dusseldorf to Ostend, Belgium. I haven't seen Hubert since. I have never been to Sant' Agata, unfortunately. "The autobahn trip to Ostend was great, but I kept it under 200 kph the whole trip (in fact, 200 kph is the fastest I have ever driven the car). Took the ferry from Ostend to Dover (had to pay Sterling 1,100 in duty to get it into the country), drove to a suburb of London, put it on an overnight auto-rail sleeper to Inverness, and drove it home to Aberdeen the next morning. You know what fun they are to drive, and English/Scottish roads are perfect for them. "When we moved from Scotland in 1981, I shipped the car to New Orleans, where I drove it about 500 km to North Louisiana, then put it on a train transport to Los Angeles, where Jaz Rarewala and Trefor Thomas (Lamborghini North America in Los Angeles) did the DOT mods for me and then kept it at their place for two years while I was working in Peru. When we were transferred to Bakersfield in 1983, the car had finally found a home there, and I took it to Claudio (who was then in Van Nuys) to get it tuned up and licensed in CA (LAMBO SV is still the plate). As I worked overseas during 1984-1993, I got to drive it very little, and in fact CA would not re-issue the license to me after the first 4 years because it wouldn't pass smog. So it mostly stayed in the garage except for a few surreptitious 25 mile jaunts every few months. "As you know, CA antique vehicle license laws changed, so when 5106 turned 30 years, I got it legal in CA once again, got a major tuneup/carburettor rebuild from a local Weber specialist, and took it to Concorso 2004. Wish I had done it much earlier." - Ron Edwards
#3108 was kept (probably after the crash) for a long time in the south of France (Provence) by Gerard Gombert aka "La Gombe" an old driver and mechanic. Apparently he sold it in 1994 or 95 (to whom? idk) and the car was restored. But the V12 seems to be here again. Classic Driver article about La Gombe "collection" (he died 4 months ago)... https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/incredible-collection-gerard-gombert
I met Gerard about 4x times since 2007, he allowed me to copy all his Bulls pics, he had many Lamborghini, but from one visit to another one he was changing stories version... I very doubt this engine belongs to #3108... Because he also tried to sell it to me as the original engine of Thierry Gore 's Barchetta, which did the Tour de France Auto 1971. My last visit to him was in November 2015, so 5 months before he passed away. I heard he legated his collection to Fayence city. I'm assuming the Mayor will organise an auction sale. We will see what will happen next year at Paris Retromobile.... Next Artcurial highlights.....