Miura, the original supercar

Why take it to a show not running well i wonder?
Certainly does nothing good for its reputation.

 

Exactly! If it was at a local backdoor show i'll understand mabye, but this was at Villa d'Este!

 

I can't speak to this particular case, but it's certainly happened to me that a car I was showing ran perfectly the night before, and then fouled a plug while being positioned on the field. Stuff happens when old cars sit, and are then suddenly pressed into action, even if they are well maintained.

 

I have found that they only brake then you start them !!!

 

The Miura engine does need constant fettling. The SVJ, also with Balboni, and SV in the videos below also sound rough and the yellow one is the factory museum car.They back fire a lot on the over run as well. I don't know whether it's a carb thing but the Ferrari Boxer engine, also with 4 triple downdraught Webers, doesn't seem to suffer in the same way and runs a lot smoother, flexibly and in a more refined way. This was also the case when the cars were relatively new and not just when the cars are 40+ years old.

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Cars & Cafe this morning.

5054, recently acquired by a local gent.
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Great car with an interesting history.

 

Same car?
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Looks like it.

 

I love the specific colour combination as the Red-Gold (classic)

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It is. Very nice original Miura SV.

Here is the car at the Geneva Salon in April 1972 on the official Automobil Lamborghini SpA show stand. You can see the yellow Pirelli script on the tires.

The car is Blue Tahiti with Senape (cloth seat inserts & Britax shoulder harnesses fitted). New via Karl Foitek.
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Miura!

Rare magazine cover
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This is the only photo i found which shows a Miura which used to belong to Shah of Iran.. Does anybody know where is the car now.. He didn't have only one Miura..? Right?

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There are some other pics of this car in this thread. It has/had what look like alloy wheels from a mid '60s Ferrari on it. I don't know if this car belonged to the Shah but he had a blue SV which Joe sackey later owned as well as an SVJ.

 

Bill,
Is this car stamped with an import id number on the front frame member? 4248 spent some time there as well and was stamped 31169 on the right front shock mount.

I'm curious to learn the significance of the numerical sequence but haven't had luck so far.
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Hi Shaun,

I responded to the private message you sent but not sure if it go through.

Getting your Japanese history from the registration records will be easy. I need to get copies of your Japanese documents. The most important one will be the large format one on parchment paper called a Universal Export Certificate. This will show the year of import as well as a control number in order to access the records that remain on file. The document will be in Kenji but easy to recognize as it will have to red round "Natsuin" stamps as well as the actual chassis number of the car in Arabic numerals.

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Bill
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....and brokered by me (in collaboration) to its current owner!

 

Good job Walter!

 

This is the Shah's sister Princess Ashraf's P400S. It is still in Iran.

The Shah's SV (4870) and SV Jota (4934) are well documented in this thread.

 

Did Princess Ashraf make much use of the Miura herself, Joe? What mileage has it done? Also how many miles did the Shah do in SV 4870? From memory the SVJ only had about 2500 miles on it when it was rescued? Was the Countach LP400 hers as well?

 

No idea of the mileage on the Princess' Miura.

I seem to recall 18,000km on the SV 4870, but I think that car was driven by several Royal family members & others.

Countach was Shah's son Mohammed Reza's car which he received from mother Farah Diba for his 18th birthday (or so we are told).

 

Thanks, Joe. Does anyone know the story of the wheels on this Miura S of the Princess and why they're on it?

 

What an amazing thread about an amazing car! Thanks to all the posters here, it's a great read. I'm an avid Lamborghini 1/18th scale model car collector and have a question for you experts.

I have just bought a red/gold Kyosho Miura SV and it has Bertone badges but without the stylised "b" i.e. just above the rectangular part with the Bertone script. I know the earlier P400 had the different, more elaborate version but I'm yet to find a picture showing an SV without the complete badge, Bertone "b" included!

Any thoughts?

 

"Everything you always wanted to know about sex* (*but were afraid to ask)" Woody Allen 1972

Miura P400 appears in the third segment of the film: "Why do some women have trouble reaching an orgasm?" Woody and Louise Lasser get in the car and drive off in this Felliniesque send-up of Italian cinema.
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Very cool.

Fake Roma plates FWIW.