Miura, the original supercar

Very very cool. The first owner's touches live on.

174 mph: I think he read the telex Bob Wallace sent to the USA concessionaire in 1968 stating that ANY Miura should be able to do 174!

 

With what, afterburners?

 

I agree that Wallace was being optimistic.

In 1967 Motor magazine got the P400 to 171 mph, but in 1968 Road & Track achieved just 163 mph.

The S was a bit faster and in 1970 Autocar saw 172 mph, the same year Road & Track recorded 168 mph, and Car magazine got 176 mph.

 

The true Lambo track car .
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Bizzarrini's v12
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Hello!

Not just Lamborghini with his staff but also Bizzarrini, as seen in your pic, deTomaso, the little english Diva and probably a lot more used the well discussed inverted wishbone system for the rear suspension. I took a look at one of my Mangustas the other day and was surprised how similar the rear suspension looked to the LP400.

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L-E
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Hi,

In the preface to Joe Sackey's book about the Miura -I am sorry I still haven't got it- Claudio Zampolli tells about an unborn evolution called 'Miura E'.

I wonder if anybody knows anything further about this unborn evolved Miura.

Thank you,

david

 

Claudio touched on it but never elaborated. Thats a question he must answer...

 

By Pieter Ameye.
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I´d just bought the new Jota Magazine - it´s great! But I wonder about the declaration that Bob´s Jota had chassis number 4683 and not 5084!

What´s fact, Joe? You already gave the information in your bible at page 147 that 5084 just was claimed to be the original Jota.

So - was 4683 the correct chassis?
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1st mistake : VIN #4808 is NOT a Jota or SV-J... just a swiss importer conversion !!!

 

Sounds like somebody is simply trying to make 4683 famous.

In my book I note that 5084 is "claimed by many" to be the original Jota. I'm not one of the many!

I think the Jota was built from scratch as a 'Sperimentale'.

 

By the way, the chapters in the Miura book entitled "Jota - burning the midnight oil" and "Modificato - modified by the works" covers the subject matter of the original Jota and all the Jota-modified SVs in an effort to put it in perspective: the original was a seriously flawed experimental (likely the exact reason it crashed at speed), and all the so-called SVJs are cosmetically modified SVs.
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Thx for the clarification, Joe!

Best regards Jochen ;o))

 

Jochen: Also I think I was at pains to point out that the chassis numbers I offered for the Jota-modified cars was only a partial list!
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From R&T Exotic Cars No 5 (July 1987)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-SWEJ-8rg&feature=related

 

Blueprint based on the first car...
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That´s right, Joe. Best jota-regards - Jochen

 

And Seasons Greetings to you & yours!

 

Did you mean Renny Ottolina? As I have heard the story, he brought the car into Venezuela as a "race car" so he would be able to bypass all the import fees and red tape. He would then enter it in a race, run one lap and retire with "mechanical" trouble. That would be the end of the car's race history and it would join his regular drivers' stable.

 

Still pics are nice. But motion pics are nicer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FIyaY0sRb8

 

A Venezuelan Miura owner sent his Miura P400 back to Sant Agata and an SV returned in its place using the same chassis number as the P400.

 

Legends
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Tree true legends (hint: not the LM)...