Miura, the original supercar

Look carefully: not only are the spinners drilled like the steering wheel, they have horn badges applied and the wheels are split-rim items...

Joe
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Simply because it is not true and it is not original to this car.

Alberto

 

YOU are right Alberto ;-) . My post was a little tounge in cheek but I stand by the comments about the chassis needed a little help.

Bax

 

Sorry, but inspite of the Miura amazingness those cheeky S800 cars look pretty damn fine as well.

All the way up to 9K+ they are pretty enjoyable to watch or drive.

I really enjoy these old snaps. As a designer I'd love to one day do a fine book full of pics from the automotive's golden era.


Marcel, how many Miura's are in The Netherlands?

Cheers, Albert

 

Fair enough.

Alberto

 

Alberto likes his chassis 'flexible' just the way they were made

Joe
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Hi again,

Can you perhaps post a picture of the complete car here?

Ciao!
Marcello

 

Thats the car that just sold at Artcurial?

Joe
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Yes it is, here are two pictures of that Miura.

Ciao!
Marcello
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Hi Francis,

So you also walked around parking lots at car events already in 1985, looking for Lamborghini's to spot?
Great pictures!

Grazie!
Marcello

 

Unfortunatly we lost some the last few years, I know of at least 6 Miura's today in Holland.

Ciao!
Marcello

 

anyone in the Market ?


http://www.lamborghinilasvegas.com/mainpages/carpage.php?cid=4207C

they are asking 459K

 

Cheers, can I see?

 

The brown copper Miura P400 at Retromobile was #3234

Look at this picture.. the badge could mean less points at a Concours,
and perhaps the suggestion it is completly rebodied by this Carrosserie firm.
The Bertone badges are still in place...

Ciao!
Marcello
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Very nice indeed. Love it.

Joe
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Less than 4124...

Joe
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How many of the produced Miura's are still among us today? Driving of course . . .

 

I assume there are many existing today. Interesting would be - which cars are lost?

Ciao!
Walter

 

Id say of the 762 made, a surprisingly high 700 chassis still exist. When you speak about cars that are properly running and on the road Id say that number drops to about 500 cars.

All an educted guess of course...

Joe
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I just hope all those 500 are all well maintained.

 

700 is hi indeed

quite luckily miuras were never completely forgotten and this explains why so many are still around

a LOT of cars went under restoration and were saved for years to come

 

I cannot beleive that more than 60 or 70 were just scrapped...

Joe
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If you can't drive ANY car is easily scrapped

BTW that '75 Rosso Nero Periscopa Countach looks da bizz!

 

Has anyone ever tried to count the cars that have an active history - looking through the Lamborghini register at the 1st 100 cars I see only about 53 miura with what I would call an active history - the other 47 are listed (without photograph) only as "Prod. #xx. DD MMM 1967".

Obviously later cars show much better figures than the first 100 but does a lack of published history mean that the car hasn’t been seen, traded or known about since original delivery?

Some years ago I was bitten by the De Tomaso Mangusta bug (very nasty before you ask - I came out in rust from head to toe) and the conventional wisdom amongst enthusiasts of the marque was that of the 401 built only 200 had survived.

This 50% survival rate after 40 years has always stuck with me & I always very surprised (pleasantly so mind you) that the Lambo community felt that so many more of it's finest creation had withstood the passage of time - perhaps 50% seems very low but for my 2 cents (1.02 pence Stirling) I still find it very hard to believe that much more than 60% or even 70% have survived.

The last figure quoted in this thread suggests that as many as 92% survive - where are they all?

Joe - have you got one of those government surplus minuteman missile bunkers full of the beauties or what?

However, whenever I suggest such figures amongst the miura community I am instantly told it is way too low - I hope so but I think there is more to this process than taking 762 as a starting point & subtracting just the known losses.

Has anyone factored in the many cars that went to the Persian playgrounds before the fall of the Shah - I'm sure many did as that was where much of the exotics market was centred before 1979 - after the political changes these cars would have became a significant liability to their owners in post revolutionary Iran.

Tell me I'm wrong please someone - but also show me where the cars are because no matter how I count them I cant even get near 80%.

Bax #3171

 

I know from diverse registries that the amount of still existing cars is really against 70% but perhaps 50% are drivable, specially the early metal chassis cars suffer from rusting away.
I know a friend in germany who dismantled 3 P250 Urracos, on Jalpas I would say survivor rate is against 80%, only those which are crashed are missing, there is hardly anyone in a unrestorable state.