Monteverdi 375/4 in Australia

In the late 1970s I was walking home from school and parked on the corner of Orrong and St. Georges Road Toorak was a Monteverdi 375/4 on the nature strip . Because I always carried my "Observers Book of Automobiles" with me, I worked out what it was. The owner came out from a nearby residence and noticed me looking at it and we struck up a conversation. I think he was somewhat amused seeing a 12 year old was peering through the window quoting facts and figures from the book.

I recall the car quite well. It was a very dark blue with a deep burgundy interior. Nestled between the front seats was a woodgrain console that housed a black and white Sony television. It was a remarkable car and it seemed the perfect conveyance for a captain of industry or dictator. I was astounded at the time to see the speedometer calibrated to 280 km/h and a "High Speed" badge in chrome on the rear.

Does anyone in Melbourne or beyond recall this car, or what became of it? After that fateful afternoon, I never saw it again. Perhaps the fact that 28 were made may have had something to do with it.

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Simon, that's not a Quattroporte, it's a Lagonda Rapide.

 

Whom knows.

 

Good suggestion, thanks, email sent.

 

Indeed, whom owned it no longer resides there, nor knows whom it may have been!

 

Update.

The 375/4 to which I refer was first registered to the Swiss Consulate in Melbourne. The person I spoke to that day was the Swiss Consul who was visiting a friend. After they owned it for some years it was sold through the car yard on the corner of Alexandra Avenue and Chapel Street South Yarra and had a number of subsequent Melbourne owners. I found the car, it's still here.

 

I'm trying to recall the name back then, was it "Auto Classique?"