Miura, the original supercar

lovely video, no mirrors, no shoes, lovely music *****

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Sandie Shaw London Wells Street 1967 with Miura (italian export plate 02452*EE, same plate featured in the factory picture Royal Observatory):

a) Sandie Shaws legs - rear end. Date believed to be 25/09/1967.

b) Sandie Shaws legs - roof party with Flics, aehm Bobbies. Date believed to be 26/07/1967

Not her Miura ?

S/N ?

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The 2nd photo, on the roof, is the same shoot as the other 2 posted earlier. You can see the "to let" sign again:



That said, it really looks like the first picture is also on that location, she has on the same dress and shoes...

 

Gentlemen i have a question about a Miura SVJ. Can someone tell me which is the s/n number of the specific car. The reason that i'm asking is firstly about my archive and secondly because i have another photo of the specific SVJ( i believe so) which has a different interior colour. I know that there are 2 SVJs in that colour but i can't find exactly from which one is the specific.


http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af153/Gregory_058/VE12D2%201881_zpskzx3b4wi.jpg

Thank you advance.
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One more, this time a Benny and a Mini...and yes we finally see Jeff Banks. Date believed to be 1969.

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thanks for the re-post of the picture:
*a) Sandie Shaws legs - rear end. Date believed to be 25/09/1967.*

oh finally we start speaking about the rear end !

someone lost (???) the front end lefthandside number plate holder shown on the Royal Observatory Picture -
therefore no surprise the tailpipes on the rear end lost as well ?

to see the front number plate behind the windscreen on all Wells Street pictures is a little bit odd imho.

btw: Are we sure these italian export number plates to belong to the car/s shown on the two locations Royal Observatory and Wells Street? Would not be the first time to see wrong number plates on wrong cars....especially if they are abroad.

Joe: ouch in the meantime it is Sandies Miura ? Finally another lady owned Miura ? Do we have in the meantime news on this and proof for this ?

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The right tailpipe is just visible in that photo. It is the P400 style so it blends in with the asphalt. The left pipe is hidden by her legs.

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1967 rear end

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Ok I admit it is hard to see. Even bringing it in to some photography software did not make it obvious. If somebody has a higher resolution copy I think I get it to stand out more. But the low resolution copy posted did not give much to work with. Keep in mind you are looking for the P400 exhaust tips as shown in the first photo below. The black soot inside the tip is the most obvious thing in the second photo below. But due to its color it is also easy to dismiss it as the asphalt. The black paint on the tailpipe also makes it blend in.

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I don't think these are heading to Geneva. But maybe am I wrong. On the footage, the Islero appears to be dark brown and to have a small chrome strip on the sill. Whereas the Geneva car is as far as I remember 6003, which had a very large chrome strip under the sill. Only very few cars were made like that.

There is a chance that 6003 is the car pictured on the postcard below, so I think that both the colour and the strip don't match. But it is only an assumption as the evidence are very weak!
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Thank you Mr Sackey.

 

Very interesting. I think:

from Jan 1967 until June 1967: Mitchel & Brittain, 123 New Cross Rd, New Cross, London SE14

from Sept 1967 until 1971: R.A. Woolsgrove, Alie Street, London E1, later changed name to Lamborghini Concessionaires (Sales) Ltd., trade name *The Italian Car Centre*

Imho the Miura of Royal Observatory picture and the Miura pictured in the 3 Wells Street pictures differ on the front end lefthandside, one with number plate holder and the others without number plate holder.

Imho it is possible we see different cars, eventually marketing cars / dealer cars.

It is odd they show the same italian export plate 02452*EE.

A number plate does not necessarily need to belong to a certain car especially if it is fixed in whatever manner behind the windscreen.

It must be noted that Italian authorities do not allow such fixations of number plates, they are and were always quite nervous on such issues...to touch and remove a number plate (as it was and is done on Swiss registered cars on a daily basis) always made and makes italians and italian workshops, dealers etc. very nervous, until today.

It seems someone used that italian export plate 02452*EE on various different cars. Italy was far away back then...

The Bobbies, aehm wardens as we seem to name them here, could only check with their bosses to ask their Interpol contact in Scotland Yard if the number plate belongs to a stolen car or if the number plate is stolen. Practially they had no chance to verify to which car the plate belongs or belonged.

If you forgot the car document lets say in Italy and got checked abroad, well what could they do...nothing really besides checking with Interpol if the car and / or number plate was stolen, eventually you got a small fine for not showing the car document.

The only chance would have been to ask their bosses to ask their bosses to finally ask the London Forreign Office to ask the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri to ask them the Italian Ministero Interno to ask them the Italian Police and then the reply all the long way back, that was not practiced on such "non-important" issues way back then as the "diplomatic channel" described above was reserved to only being used for the few "important" issues.

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Thanks and Sorry for the wrong title, obviously 1966 style rear end shown in 1967 sales document.

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Sorry for the bad quality of the picture, no better here.
Here is the best possible resolution so far.
Still amazed by her legs.

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I like it without the tips.

The below picture is believed to be dated August 1966

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