Miura, the original supercar

Yes and it used to live in Amsterdam at one point.

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So this info of Marcel de Lange was correct, a lot of swiss cars found their way to the netherlands...

 

Maybe they just went for a drive over there and decided to stay

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I feel the Miura ages, but will never get old......
It amazes me how they ever thought of it so long ago.

 

They visited the famous coffeeshops and suddenly had gras allover in the car

 

Miura Video : Right Click to Save

http://www.car2max.com/video/Top%20Gear%20-%20Lamborghini%20Miura.wmv

 

A classic!

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Thanks for sharing !

is that the TWIGGY ?

P.S. Jamiroquai rules !!! even though he also has Ferraris

 

Yes that is the so-called Twiggy Miura, chassis number 3676. Actually it belonged to her manager Justin De Villenueve pictured below in it in 1970. Twiggy probably sat in it - once and it likely saw more London nightclub action than any other Miura. It was white, but it was subsequetly restored by the works to its current Verde Miura livery. BTW check out the 'sideboards' and the skin-tight crimplene shirt. Groovy!

Jay Kay did not have a happy relationship with his Miura SV, chassis number 4972 and its worth noting that he no longer has it. That car used to be a left-hand-drive SV delivered to Milan that was converted to right-hand-drive guise by Ferrari dealer Graypaul circa 1984.

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In another period image this lady looks ready to drive out of the factory gates in September 1973 in her bell-bottomed trousers, platform shoes and fur-lined jacket...

Thats 4926.

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When did the car become green?

Was Verde Miura ever an original color?

The story I'm familiar with includes Twiggy and the lime green Miura.

 

3676 was built as a 1968 P400 finished in "Bianco Acrillico" (white to you and me) with a nero interior for the Lamborghini dealer in England as the 243rd production Miura. It was then sent back to the factory in 1970 and put back on the Bertone production line for a complete upgrade as the 526th production Miura (same chassis number), this time a P400S. It remained in its white livery and existed this way in London for years.

In 1989 it suffered a major fire and it was sent by the dealer back to the Lamborghini factory to be rebuilt - again! This time the car's entire chassis was replaced by original Miura chassis builder Marchesi and the car was completely restored. I am told that the rebuild cost in excess of $200,000 and it was during this process that the car was refinished in Verde Miura. It was featured in the famed magazine article in 1996 that tied it to Twiggy and it thus became forevermore known as the "Twiggy Miura". A bit of a stretch really, although the link is there.

Yes Verde Miura is an original Miura color used on the P400, the P400S and the P400SV.

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Joe,

do you know where this photograph was taken? Any stories behind this car?
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Modena Autodromo, 1968. Its from my website www.joesackey.com. The car is a developmental P400S with downforce winglets. Wallace is in the racing overalls and a young Valentino Balboni is sitting on the wall...

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Joe..........you're the master !!!

 

is that colour the same known as Verde Ithaca ???
I recall when the Murcielago was first introduced it was refered as Verde Miura
but suddenly everybody start calling it Verde ITHACA
is the same colour ?

P.S. anyway; that lovely verde colour should be a Lamborghini registered trademark.

 

Thats true. Thanks Joe!

 

Okey, I've got one more question. Do you know anything about this car? I took these photographs in Lamborghini Geneve dealership.
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+1
... and I hope this thread NEVER dies ...

 

#3889

 

Did the development wings get grafted (made it) onto any original production car? I saw a restored Miura recently that had these, but they did not look original to me as they were made out of rubber.

Thanks.

 

Thank you. Im not the master, but I do try a bit.

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Youre welcome.

No, I dont know the red car in the Geneva showroon.

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I know the car you speak of Alberto, and they are made out of fibreglass.

Some cars had them installed by Bob Wallace before they left the works on a random basis to aid high-speed downforce. They were nicknamed "Baffi Bob". Baffi translated means "moustache"....

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A nice day for driving it was indeed. The Countach with our Miura SV 4884 is a downdraught carburetted version finished in "Bianco Perlato" (Pearl White) with a white leather interior and color coded Pearl White rims. The best example of its type in the country IMO...

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