Miura, the original supercar

Very cool image.

Considering the aircraft in the background, was Avional involved in your car?

Either way Id rather be in yours than any other road-going Miura in the event of an accident, and I'm sure you know why Im saying that!

 

Agreed... in addition there is also a transversal tube/bar inside the door in order to increase passive protection !

 

Thanks for the images Olivier.

Those hinge-plate bolts look like they were given to Rigg by Ferruccio off one of his tractors!

 

Avional is "a high strength aluminium alloy containing 4.75% copper, 0.5% magnesium and 1.4% silicon" but at the end of the day it is just a slightly purer grade metal but with a massive price rise to match. Somehow I cant imagine Ferruccio paying the extra for what was a weekend project. So either they had some cheap samples left around that they used, or maybe this was another of those Sant 'Agata urban legends?

We stayed with stock aluminium but with steel used in vulnerable areas such as the side fuel tanks.
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Very nice. Do you have more 'construction' images?

By the way, I will go with the 'Urban Legend' theory being the cynic that I am

 

Sent you a PM in response to your call...

 

the "last miura" story appears yet again in a UK classic car magazine this month.

 

very nice article about the San Gottard road/pass...that I 've just did with my Jarama GTS last 1st July...

 

Which 'last' one?

The last production number?
The last chassis number?
The last left-hand-drive one completed?
Or the last right-hand-drive one completed?

None of the 4 categories above corresponds to the car claimed to be the last one.

 

Which one of the cars claimed to be the last one?

 

For me the last one to have been produced and delivered is not that #5110 claimed as well by Kidston...some journalists and/or writters.

This is more a conversation of "connaisseurs" speaking about "angels sex".

The real last Miura is the one off the production line and test driven => then the date on the ticket giving the note "OK" for delivery is the proof of the last one...that's my point of view, shared with some others Lambo enthusiasts and Miura owners !

But everybody can have his own point of view !!!

Ciao,
Olivier
LCB President

 

A plaquette on the central tunnel doesn't prove that #5110 is the last one, reminds me of the factory jalpa JLA12419 which has a similar plaquette, but in reality there is JLA12420 in Holland...

 

"Journalists" no longer do independent research to verify the story told them by others. I think it safe to say that if he had researched this claim, significant doubt would have been uncovered.

 

+1

 

There. Fixed that...

 

OK !!
I am in the dark on this! along with most things about these cars, I have no idea which one is the last one, so which one is it and why!!!!

 

I think the point here is that the criteria for identifying the "last car" is somewhat flexible (depending on your point of view).

 

Last production number: 762 (4826)
Last chassis number: 5113
Last left-hand-drive car completed: 5108
Last right hand drive car completed: 4822
Last car completed: 4822

 

Which title and issue?

 

NOW we are getting some where!!
why such a delay in # 4826 and 4822 and did they start life as a (s) model.

 

On the plus side, I'd like to point out that I know the answer to this month's "Mystery Car" photo in the same magazine - one of the few times I have been able to make that claim.

 

No they did not start as S cars. The RHD Miura SVs typically have a 48XX chassis number.

 

I think the real point here is that 5110 is not the "Last Miura" as it is often purported to be. That much is clear amongst almost everyone in the classic car world familiar with this subject.

 

+1.

here endeth the lesson

 

Let me be the first to declare publicly and unequivocally, that Miura 1021 is neither the first nor the last Miura ever built. So we can all sleep soundly in the knowledge that there is at least one Miura owner NOT claiming to own the first or last one built.

Alberto