The Shah of Iran Miura - Page 3

elpadrino · #41 12-31-2008, 12:42 PM

beautiful collection

**johnhoughtaling** · #42 12-31-2008, 01:44 PM

Napolis:

. Bobileff went completely threw her and she drives amazing now totally different. As you know there is good reason the cockpit feels like a GT 40.

Next time you are in New Orleans, you need to take her for a proper spin. This time you will not be limited to driving her 155 and have to jeapordize your nickname.

As for the rest of my friends, your welcome to stop by anytime you are in new Orleans. Soon the cars will be joined by some special additions, including a freshly restored 400 Interim (one if 23), the Roaster R, and the only Lamborghini F1 car outside of the factory museum.

vaholtorf · #43 12-31-2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

Napolis:

. Bobileff went completely threw her and she drives amazing now totally different. As you know there is good reason the cockpit feels like a GT 40.

Next time you are in New Orleans, you need to take her for a proper spin. This time you will not be limited to driving her 155 and have to jeapordize your nickname.

As for the rest of my friends, your welcome to stop by anytime you are in new Orleans. Soon the cars will be joined by some special additions, including a freshly restored 400 Interim (one if 23), the Roaster R, and the only Lamborghini F1 car outside of the factory museum.

I think James DiIorio has a Lambo F1 in socal........

italiancars · #44 12-31-2008, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

Napolis:

. Bobileff went completely threw her and she drives amazing now totally different. As you know there is good reason the cockpit feels like a GT 40.

Next time you are in New Orleans, you need to take her for a proper spin. This time you will not be limited to driving her 155 and have to jeapordize your nickname.

As for the rest of my friends, your welcome to stop by anytime you are in new Orleans. Soon the cars will be joined by some special additions, including a freshly restored 400 Interim (one if 23), the Roaster R, and the only Lamborghini F1 car outside of the factory museum.

You mean this car. :-)

jeff512tr · #45 12-31-2008, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Napolis

Having seen and taken her for a short drive I can say she's very special.

Hopefully Gary has fixed the slight vibration in the left front wheel/tire at speeds over 155 mph

Cockpit feels very much like a Ford GT 40 MK I.

Best!!

Jim
My brother drove the car during the Celebration event, he said he didn't notice the vibration, at least not while doing donuts in the parking lot

BTW when are we going to see the P4/5 at Celebration?

**Napolis** · #46 12-31-2008, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

Napolis:

. Bobileff went completely threw her and she drives amazing now totally different. As you know there is good reason the cockpit feels like a GT 40.

Next time you are in New Orleans, you need to take her for a proper spin. This time you will not be limited to driving her 155 and have to jeapordize your nickname.

As for the rest of my friends, your welcome to stop by anytime you are in new Orleans. Soon the cars will be joined by some special additions, including a freshly restored 400 Interim (one if 23), the Roaster R, and the only Lamborghini F1 car outside of the factory museum.

John

That hanger is a wonderful place to store those cars. Fantastico!!

Happy New Year and Love!!

**Napolis** · #47 12-31-2008, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jeff512tr

Jim
My brother drove the car during the Celebration event, he said he didn't notice the vibration, at least not while doing donuts in the parking lot

BTW when are we going to see the P4/5 at Celebration?

SefacHotRodder · #48 01-01-2009, 12:59 AM

STUNNING car

FredParoutaud · #49 01-01-2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

Soon the cars will be joined by some special additions, including a freshly restored 400 Interim (one if 23), the Roaster R, and the only Lamborghini F1 car outside of the factory museum.

Ah ha!

Love it.

Do you have a frame number for that Interim, John?

Thanks,

Fred

boxerman · #50 01-01-2009, 04:02 PM

Just watched the opening scene again from the original Italian job movie with the kids. A must for every miura owner.

John do you stll do the ferrari event in New Orleans. I went to Tulane in the early 80's and would love to return to the area in my Boxer for some fun.

hyenahf · #51 01-02-2009, 11:10 AM

john

great looking collection.... please tell us a little more of your P111 usa spec urraco?

happy new year

hf

**355dreamer** · #52 01-02-2009, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

Thanks everyone.

Yes the Diablo Roadster R is in the US racing livery of white with Blue stripes (the factory only made one Diablo RR). (same as the 355CH in photos) If all goes well it will join the collection.

John,
Those are amazing cars! I thought the white w/ blue 355C was owned by another Fchatter. Is yours the ex. Enron car?

**johnhoughtaling** · #53 01-03-2009, 09:12 PM

the blue/ white ex enron car is the same car. There's only one. I bought it to pass on to Chris Sacco. While it's owned by my company title will be passing to Christopher Sacco in exchange for him acting as the general contractor on the design and renovation of my hanger garage. (he "will for for Ferraris)" I consider the car to be his. Chris just did an awesome race in it last month with full team support by Lemans winning Risi Competzioni. He's tearing up the Streets of New Orleans in it.

**joe sackey** · #54 01-04-2009, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

This pic was taken last month. The first and only time in about 5,000 miles and 7 years 4870 has ever let me down:

Bad battery/starter, $250 dollar fix:

Broke down in the worst neighborhood in New Orleans. Pictured is my pilot, who is a reserve cop who came as backup!

John: I am bewildered by this tale of Miura unreliability. How can this be??

espada1952 · #55 01-04-2009, 09:49 AM

Pictures of SV taken in 198?,these were sent to various european collectors,how did the car go from hear to the USA?

**johnhoughtaling** · #56 01-04-2009, 02:12 PM

The history after the shah and his family is well documented.

The shah used the car alot, as did his sister who the shah allowed to drive the car to impress men when she was single. (I have a few wild acounts of this)

The car was in the hands of a family member in Iran when his possessions were confiscated at the palace.

The car was exported from Iran to Italy in the early eighties. In 2001, Joe Sackey imported the car into California where he and Gary Bobileff spent two years going through a 100 point restoration of the car. From Joe to Jim Spiro (who owned a Daytona Coupe, F50GT1, and the 1962 one off Lemans winning Ferrari Testarossa). Jim had the car a few months and sold it to me.

From there I drove the car alot from New Orleans to Seaside Florida.
4870 is an extremly sexy car in the flesh, and for someone single, well let's just say 4870 has always been magic. Like the Shah allowed his sister to do, i used the car to impress the opposite sex. I was dating a supermodel from Miami and thought driving the car back and forth to the beach house would impress her (in retrospect the F430 would have been a cheaper way to close the deal but at the time I was pulling out all the stops). After my single days were ending, 4870 went back to Bobileff and for another two years he brought the car back up to 100 points and fixed some mechanical gremilins that were there for a while.

The car is perfect now. It's lead a very very colorful life. Although I'm now single again, the car is reserved only for photoshoots and short drives in sunny weather. (I'm smarter now with the cars to impress girls)

**Napolis** · #57 01-04-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

The history after the shah and his family is well documented.

The shah used the car alot, as did his sister who the shah allowed to drive the car to impress men when she was single. (I have a few wild acounts of this)

The car was in the hands of a family member in Iran when his possessions were confiscated at the palace.

The car was exported from Iran to Italy in the early eighties. In 2001, Joe Sackey imported the car into California where he and Gary Bobileff spent two years going through a 100 point restoration of the car. From Joe to Jim Spiro (who owned a Daytona Coupe, F50GT1, and the 1962 one off Lemans winning Ferrari Testarossa). Jim had the car a few months and sold it to me. From there I drove the car alot from New Orleans to Seaside Florida.

4870 is an extremly sexy car in the flesh, and for someone single, well let's just say 4870 has always been magic. Like the Shah allowed his sister to do, i used the car to impress the opposite sex. I was dating a supermodel from Miami and thought driving the car back and forth to the beach house would impress her (mistake-she'd prefer to drive in the 430). After my single days were ending, 4870 went back to Bobileff and for another two years he brought the car back up to 100 points and fixed some mechanical gremilins that were there for a while.

The car is perfect now. It's lead a very very colorful life. Although I'm now single again, the car is reserved only for photoshoots and short drives in sunny weather. (I'm smarter now with the cars to impress girls)

40 years ago I picked up Meg in a 63 VW Beetle. As she was a Brooklyn Girl who's idea of a car was the D Train it worked just fine.

Hope to see You Soon!

Meg and I send our Love.

**joe sackey** · #58 01-04-2009, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnhoughtaling

The history after the shah and his family is well documented.

The shah used the car alot, as did his sister who the shah allowed to drive the car to impress men when she was single. (I have a few wild acounts of this)

The car was in the hands of a family member in Iran when his possessions were confiscated at the palace.

The car was exported from Iran to Italy in the early eighties. In 2001, Joe Sackey imported the car into California where he and Gary Bobileff spent two years going through a 100 point restoration of the car. From Joe to Jim Spiro (who owned a Daytona Coupe, F50GT1, and the 1962 one off Lemans winning Ferrari Testarossa). Jim had the car a few months and sold it to me.

From there I drove the car alot from New Orleans to Seaside Florida.
4870 is an extremly sexy car in the flesh, and for someone single, well let's just say 4870 has always been magic. Like the Shah allowed his sister to do, i used the car to impress the opposite sex. I was dating a supermodel from Miami and thought driving the car back and forth to the beach house would impress her (in retrospect the F430 would have been a cheaper way to close the deal but at the time I was pulling out all the stops). After my single days were ending, 4870 went back to Bobileff and for another two years he brought the car back up to 100 points and fixed some mechanical gremilins that were there for a while.

The car is perfect now. It's lead a very very colorful life. Although I'm now single again, the car is reserved only for photoshoots and short drives in sunny weather. (I'm smarter now with the cars to impress girls)

John:

You are a great custodian for the Ex-Shah SV. Perhaps I can mention that the correct date that I purchased this car in Italy and imported it to California was February the 17th 1999.

Kaivon Saleh who looked after all the cars stored at the Royal Niavaran Palace in Teheran has some great stories to tell. He told me that the jet pilot Shah was quite a driver.... much to the disappointment of all the SAVAK agents whose job it was to follow him everywhere and keep him alive. BTW Princess Ashraf was not the only member of the Royal family besides the Shah to use this car. The Shah's son Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and various other Royal household members stretched its legs from time to time, including Kaivon Saleh himself on many occasions, as his job dictated!

You should have some paperwork there that also shows that the car was exported from Iran and arrived in Italy on January the 24th 1991. The exporter from Iran is noted as Assadollah Rostamkhani. The importer was Manfredi Sinistrario of Pesaro who operated the BMW dealership in Pesaro under the name of Drive SrL. The import papers state that the car still had Teheran government plates "TEH 8884" on the car at the point of import. Sinistrario had the car sympathetically restored in Italy and he showed it at the Lamborghini Day 3 at Sant Agata September the 25th & 26th 1993 where it won The Best Miura. He sold to me in Feb 1999.

I sold it to Jim Spiro on September the 22nd 2003 when he made me an offer I could not refuse. Of course as you know Jim Spiro missed the car so much after he sold it to you that I found him another SV (4968).

4870 is a truly historic road car with a thousand tales to tell.

Best,
Joe

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**johnhoughtaling** · #59 01-04-2009, 05:12 PM

napolis: hope to see you soon to, 08 was a difficult year but I look foward to 09.

Joe: thanks for the info.

For those of you who know Joe Sackey and his love for the history of this mark, you'd not be surprised to hear that after I bought the car from Jim, Joe sent me the shah's license plate which was in his collection. He asked for no money but decided it was properly to go with the history of the car. This plate and Joe's history book on 4870 (over a foot thick!) where among the few possesions I took with me during my flight from Katrina. Thanks Joe.

If anyone is interested I can scan a few of the historical documents on the car. Some of them are very facinating, such as the very special bench test that was performed on the Shahs engine on March 24,1971 ( I was exactly three days old at this time)

ken qv · #60 01-04-2009, 06:54 PM

I don't want to speak for everyone, but I think whatever you take time to
share would be well received. I love your collection and regret not seeing your DD
at celebration last year since I try to keep track of them.