Miura, the original supercar

Hahaha. Verrrry clever! Subtle, but to the point...

Joe
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I shudder to think...

Joe
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Please do...

Can you check "EE" plates?

Joe
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http://home.tiscali.nl/isorivolta/isoprotos.htm

Check the Bizza with the Miura V12 in . . .

 

Hmmm...

Joe
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i just prefer those lenses.
they seem (to me) to slightly modernise the look of the car in a very subtle fashion.

 

Impeccable...

Joe
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OK, will do - but it will take some time!

Not sure if I can check EE-plates!

Ciao!
Walter

 

Joe,
...just got the info from Italy! The number-plate MI-20943 of this yellow Miura in Paris is...a fake! This number is related to a registration that was given to an Alfa Romeo Monza in........1932!!

Ciao!
Walter
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like the LP red in italian movie: plates belongs to an other Alfa

 

gee...I luuuuve you Italians!!!

Ciao!
Walter

 

TKS Walter LOL

the guys of the movies likely get a new car untitled and put one of theyr plates on the car for filming (on public open road of course) and then put the plate backs on the giulia!!

 

My question is how did they fit the engine in? As in a 350/400GT?

I guess you - Joe - say: stick to the bloody 327!

 

Emilio,
during my many journeys thru the Maserati Universe I came across of many cars that had -to mention only very few!- a registration of a FIAT-truck from the early 30ies with a car from the late 60ies, a single registration for 2 cars...but at the same time and even an non-possible number in the late 50ies...and even 2 cars with the same VIN!!!

Yep, you Italians are very..eh..."creative" with that!

Ciao!
Walter

 

Stolen Miura?

Joe
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I would not say so! The Italians were always very "creative" playing around with the gouverment to avoid paying taxes!
In those days of non-computerised activities by the various gouv.-institutions this was possible. Please don`t forget that many Italian celebreties (actress Sophia Loren for example) had tax-problems at that time and had to flee their country to Switzerland, the land of milk & money! Then the political circumstances in Italy had become very difficult as the communist party was quite strong (but is was more the pasta & wine-way of communism...!!) and the Red Brigades-terrorists had just started their kidnapping activities. Molto Grande Casino in those days!

So, many reasons for wealthy Signores to keep their identity hidden...!

Ciao!
Walter

 

As I can see, it's the Miura from the 1968 film "La lecon particuliere", and it's most common to put on fake names on filmstars!

L-E

 

It IS a fake movie plate in fact...

Joe
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OK, but why they used one of an old Alfa Romeo from 1933??? Somewhat strange....

Ciao!
Walter

 

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Joe
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Johnny Hallyday in thoses days was a car crasher. It is amazing he is still alive. if you wanted to put a contract on a car, you hired johnny. Has as since mellowed a lot...

 

That's allright . . . but a Miura?! FFS you must be a gross bloke.

 

One of many celebrities that totaled Miuras...

Heard about the one that ended up in a Beverly Hills swimming pool?

Joe
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Please Joe, don't.

I like stories like these:
http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/greatestdrives/archive/1976/11/01/160mph-convoy-lamborghini-countach-urraco-and-silhouette-flat-out-across-europe.aspx

 

Read the whole thing this morning.

And I'm not ashamed to admit I shed a tear at the end of the story.