Miura, the original supercar

I'm confirming simply Verde Miura.

 

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The film was Simon Simon made about 1970 I think. You can see Peter Sellers in a Miura in the above short clip at about 30 seconds in. The 2 Miuras appear later but I can't find that clip. PS owned many fantastic cars as Joe says among which were an E Type, a Dino 246, 275GTB4 and a 500 Superfast which was for sale at Pullicino Classics when I worked there.

Britt Ekland did order a Countach at a Motor Show in the seventies. I don't know if she took delivery.

 

Yes, that's the film. I've already ordered it on dvd. Saw it some years ago on C4 when it was an awful picture in our area. It's never been on tv since, as far as I know. Yes the two Miuras appear one after the other. The one in the clip above seems to be a left hooker.

 

Here's part of an article from The Times & The Sunday Times archives relating to Rod Stewart and one of his Miuras. It's about someone who used to source cars for celebrities:

He points at Rod Stewart in characteristically tight jeans: “He had a problem with his Miura SV. The rear-engine lid had lifted off while he was driving down the Marbella to Puerto Banus road. The thing just jumped off and hit the exhaust system and because it was essentially made of plastic it just melted, wrecking the entire rear end. Rod wanted the car repaired immediately so we had it flown over to our UK workshop in a private plane.

“You couldn’t just get a spare Miura boot lid, so we had an ex-F1 racing car builder craft an entirely new rear especially for Rod’s car. As you can imagine it wasn’t cheap.” The inscription on the photograph reads: “Thanks for charging me a f****** fortune, love, Rod.”

 

Guess that explains the wrong tail lights in the pic, post 8667 then. I understand that picture was taken in England after the car was driven back from Marbella, so it fits.

I heard Rod sold the car to Jeremy Lloyd, who was a scriptwriter for the sitcom "Are you being served". That contradicts the ILR though, which said it was Mark Walker. Can anyone verify that?

 

I thought the rear tail lights looked wrong. The 2 chrome borders are missing that divide the 3 clusters on SV lights. There appears to be 4 different sections of narrower width including the reversing lights. The top left corner on the LHS and the top right corner of the RHS of the lights are rounded on the blue SV and square on Rod's SV. Also are the lights placed slightly further down?

Pic of LUC 38K is RichardH or Jimmy's. Blue SV pic is Joe Sackey's. Hope you don't mind me posting them here?
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Attention to detail. The rear end of Stewart's SV looks completely wrong when compared to the rear end of the blue car.

 

It may be my eyes but I can't see that the rear end looks completely wrong. I can only see the things I've said above plus SV script too far to the left which should be about centre under Miura script and the black paint underneath the honeycome grille that should be body coloured. I can't see the tailpipes either though it may be my eyes again or just not a very clear pic.

 

The wrong rear light clusters and them being too low really upsets the rear, to me anyway! Together with the SV badges and black strip under the honeycombe grille, those things all add up to . . . . well, it just looks wrong! Wonder what car the lights are from.

 

I wonder when the car was corrected? I guess the rear clam shell must have been replaced at the Lamborghini factory when it was restored if an original Lamborghini/Bertone made clam hadn't already been fitted?

http://www.themiuraregister.com/miur...ter.php?id=701

Does anyone know anything about Rod's Miura S being dropped from a crane as it says in the above link?

 

That small piece I posted claims that a bespoke item was made in the UK, presumably using the wrecked or another SV rear end as a base:

“You couldn’t just get a spare Miura boot lid, so we had an ex-F1 racing car builder craft an entirely new rear especially for Rod’s car. As you can imagine it wasn’t cheap.”

 

Yes, I was wondering if the bespoke rear end had been replaced?

 

That explains why ...

out of the 150 original Spinto Veloce , today remain 400

btw , how much was a Miura in the mid 80's ?

 

The asking prices in the UK were about £25,000 for a P400 and P400S and double that for an SV.

 

Is that the lowest they got ?

 

Don't ask, you'll hate yourself in the morning.

 

This one was seen in Goodwood last weekend.
http://www.photoservice.com/albums_en_ligne/detail.cfm?p=197706382

 

So, is that a Miura or Miura S trying to look like an SV with the wider rear track? Can't remember seeing that one before.

 

It's a Miura P400. The window surrounds are black. They are chrome on an S. The car has wide rear wheels but it doesn't look like it has the flared rear SV clam.

 

It's registered as a Lamborghini manufactured in 1969 on the RAC website which may mean it's registered at DVLA as a 1969 manufactured car. My guess is that this information is incorrect as it would be a Miura S if made in 1969, and it's not an S, unless the window surrounds have been changed from chrome to black. It could have come in to the UK in 1969 from whichever country it resided before and then taken the H plate (letter at the end of registration plate which was current for new cars between 1.8 1969 and 31.7.70) but probably should be on an F plate for a 1967 car. At the time imported cars would take the letter of the year they were imported to the UK and not when they were manufactured.

 

How long have you owned yours Alberto ?

I wonder if any Miura is still with it's original owner ?

Sorry I confused the 400 + plus of the current SV model

( 350 made ) and a current trend of turning more and more Murcielagos into SV look alike