Miura, the original supercar

3054 is a factory SV completed the 23rd of March 1972, the 710th Miura built.

Originally supplied to Venezuela for Ramon Imery as the 38th car, it was originally Verde Miura/Nero.

This is one of the cars that the factory agreed to take back & rebuild as an SV for the same Venezuelan client, using the P400's old chassis number!

Here is Richard L enjoying the car today, and it lives with a range of Ferrari exotica including an F40. he had the car restored by Frank Triarsi's Classic Coach in the current muscle-car color "Plum Crazy" with grey interior.

Of interest, this Miura once belonged to the CEO of Ferrari North America!
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Speaking of Venzuela, Renny Ottolina was the catalyst behind the importation of a nuber of Miura P400 to Venzuela, and he used his own example in Club Racing events.

Fabulous period magazine article depicts his Miura adventures, as shared with family
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P400 (not sure if this is 3054 or another) in Renny Ottolina's showroom.

Looks like a Mercedes dealership across the road...
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These have been posted in this thread, I thought they belonged again together with the others, and they depict Ottolina Club Racing his Miura in 1967.
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Ive seen no evidence that any Miura ever left Sant Agata with wire wheels...

 

Interesting, factory files did not record a lot of items, such color of the sills & wheels, so its important to have some 'evidence' from the period by way of corroboration.

Therefore, I rely on period images quite heavily, for instance. Of the thousands of period images (from the production era) I have reviewed over the past 30-years, not once have I seen a Miura shod with wire wheels. That doesn't mean someone didn't drive a car down to a shop in Bologna and swap the Campys for wires - anything is possible!

However, I remain confident that Bertone SpA did not supply production Miuras with wire wheels.

As regards the 2 cars posted above by Andrewo, I happen to know both cars personally, and have first-hand information that the wire wheels were personal customization post-production.

The red one is P400S 4488 and its current owner told me that these wires were fitted when the car was used for publicity images for the Ron O'Neal movie Super Fly TNT. The car was Lancia Blue at that time, he re-painted it red, but kept the wire wheels for shows.

The black car is P400 3180, and its previous owner told me that removed the wires he installed before he sold the car. Both instances of post-production application as known to myself.

 

"I remain confident that Bertone SpA did not supply production Miuras with wire wheels"

 

TK contacted me and sent me a nice folio, what a guy, perhaps I'll see it soon when next I'm over there!

 

Ive seen images of new Miura P400 at the factory with black sills, but the car I am thinking of was Verde Miura.

 

I agree with this and the car I saw in a period pic could easily have been back at the factory post-delivery for a service, having been changed by the dealer.

 

Apologies to eb911 for derailing the thread a bit, and to John for answering to this question even though it was not directed at me, but perhaps I can be forgiven as I owned 4870 prior to John and did in fact have contact with the Royal Family, Reza Pahlavi, the Shah's son, here in the USA. He was thrilled that the car had been rescued, and had fond memories of it in Teheran when he was a teen. I was also in touch with the Shah's nephew, Kamyar Pahlavi, also in the USA, who shared the same sentiments and a few more stories of his famed Uncle.