Miura, the original supercar

a question to a Miura expert :

Q. what happens to exhaust pipes when the rear hood is lifted or opened ?

do them get disconnected or what ?

 

The tail pipes you see at the back of the car are not connected to the main exhaust pipes. There is a gap or space, although they are in line when the clam is in the down/affixed position, allowing the clam to be lifted. Watch the video from 5.38.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzJl95coJeU[/ame]

 

I guess there's a lot of smoke in the engine bay then ...
and some smell in the cabin probably

that's weird ... in this very moment I was watching this video
and I guess those license plates # 5094 refers to it's telaio

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GutBppcwev0[/ame]

 

Indeed it does, Joe. The interior on the car was originally full blue leather with Britax Harness Belts and A/C. The leather colour was changed when the car was restored about 1990. Thank you very much for posting that. I'd love to see the car in the flesh again.

 

The gap is the reason why you'll see soot on the bodywork around where the tailpipes are fixed and why the honeycombe grille so hard to clean as it too gets full of soot.

 

Oh, yes. On long trips my trick is to put the luggage in large garbage bags and seal them well to the packed clothes do not take the smell of gas and exhaust. You can't avoid it in the cabin, but at least you can change out of the now smelly clothes you drove in after a long drive.

 

The Japanese video of the SV has got to be some of the best footage ever done on the Miura, absolutely superb.

 

Here is a period shot of the interior of Dino Martin's 16th Birthday present from his dad Dean. Check out the plaque on the console, says D.M. Jr.

Can't imagine having a Miura in High School. One with a 8-Track no less!
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Cor!! Just imagine that!! A Miura at 16. He later got a Ferrari P3 converted for road use.

http://www.motortrend.com/classic/features/1011_ferrari_p3_hollywood_remake/index.html

 

It was actually a 412P c/n 0850 which was a customer version of the P3. Just look at that.
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http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/1967-lamborghini-miura-p400/207082/

Jay Leno now owns this car #3237. Interesting story how his friend gave it to him after he'd bought it with a siezed engine after Dino had gone over a bump and cracked the sump.

http://www.themiuraregister.com/miura/register.php?id=103

 

Awesomesauce !

Miura , one of my favourite cars of all time, did they ever get round to doing the retro facelift ?

 

period image from early 70th. is it #5110?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/4969831775_93103c71bb_b.jpg

 

http://www.themiuraregister.com/miura/register.php?id=761

It looks like it with the silvered writing and rear grille. Innocenti car now owned by Simon Kidston.

 

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=136404594&highlight=leno#post136404594

I see Mr Sackey reported previously about Dino Martin's P400 now being owned by Jay Leno so my apologies for 'old' news. Great story and a pic of the car in this thread (post 308 in link above) about Dino going into the showroom with his mother.

 

Great pics, Joe. I see the car has wing mirrors and grey? sills in these pics. The car doesn't have mirrors (now or in your pic in post 308) which Jay ponts out in his video of the car.

 

Yes, I know somebody who changed the gold sills on his SV to silver, then to blue and then to white. He experimented with the wheel colour too and the car wasn't very old at all then. I have to say that the original gold was best.

The interior trim looks light in the b&w pics, especially on the door, too. Oh I see you've explained that too now. Cheers, Joe. Thanks to you we know much more about 3327 today then we did yesterday.

 

One of the reasons the SV owner I'm talking about above changed the colour of the wheels and sills from gold was that he said that the paint was softer and more prone to chipping than other colours.

 

Your old car (4830, right?) has white sills in the Performance Car '86 article when Barry Robinson owned it. I assume it didn't leave the factory that way? For me, sills have to be gold or silver.

 

Yes, 4830. Not my car but my father's. When it left the factory it had gold sills and wheels and this is how it was when he got it and this is how it looked the best by far. It also had a narrow gold stripe going down the centre of the bonnet in the furrow.