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  1. em42

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    #15476 em42, Apr 9, 2017
    Great video that I just found:

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXzO3xbXEWk[/ame]

    Restoring a Miura is really a labour of love! No affiliation.
    The man-hours involved in the process must be gigantic.
     
  2. bb4635

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  3. miurasv

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    #15478 miurasv, Apr 10, 2017
    Was this really a 1965 design study that predated the Miura? It has Maserati rear lights.
     
  4. bb4635

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    #15479 bb4635, Apr 10, 2017
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    It's not easily readable on the picture of the description panel.

    But it mentions :

    History :
    1965 : produced as a 911 coupe
    1966-67 : 3 design studies by Aachen University
    1 - KlappPorsche
    2 - Targa (this orange one, at Essen )
    3 - SportCoupe
    1968 : finished (? not sure to be able to read correctly.. ) in Switzerland

    And I think that the lime-green one here below is surely the design 1 - KlappPorsche :
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  5. bb4635

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    #15480 bb4635, Apr 10, 2017
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    The rear lights on this Porsche concept are the very same as on the original Bertone Miura Roadster Bruxelles 1968.
    In its recent restoration (after its ZN75 years) back to its original glorious livery, the rear lights have been reproduced - close - but not 100% same as the original lenses.
    (Despite this small detail, the job done by G.B. and his team remains incredible).

    FYI, these rear light units came from a period FIAT car.
    (Fiat Dino Coupe 2000 Bertone).
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  6. miurasv

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    #15481 miurasv, Apr 10, 2017
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    Thanks. Thought I'd seen them on a Bora too.
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  7. bb4635

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    #15482 bb4635, Apr 10, 2017
    The taillights on the Bora are similar, but different.

    The ones on the Bora are also mounted on some Panteras and late Espadas.
     
  8. Ellagirl

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    #15483 Ellagirl, Apr 10, 2017
    This Miura screams,drive me, Color adds another dimension to this car, as in a dayly driver kind a way, always favoured the limey color,but this is an Amazing color on the Miura,
     
  9. joe sackey

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    #15484 joe sackey, Apr 10, 2017
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    Since this thread has swerved wildly-off-topic (!), please allow me to place it back on course with the beautiful Miura SV 5030, the subject of a full restoration by Lamborghini PoloStorico, now debuted @ Essen.

    Apparently, it took about 2,000 hours work on body, engine and interior, using Lamborghini original spare parts throughout, in its correct color of Oro Metallizzato.

    Breathtaking.

    When properly restored, these cars are taken to another level.
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  10. bb4635

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    #15485 bb4635, Apr 10, 2017
    Joe,

    Where do you find off-topic posts in this Miura thread ?!

    Don't you find any interest in this Miura-inspired Porsche Design Study ? and also when speaking of carry-over parts used on the Miura ?
     
  11. joe sackey

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    #15486 joe sackey, Apr 10, 2017
    Not really :)

    BTW, how can Porsche Design-Studie be Miura inspired when it is from 1965?
     
  12. bb4635

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    #15487 bb4635, Apr 10, 2017
    See Post #15479.

    My understanding is that the "donor" car was a standard 911 - produced in 1965.

    The 3 design studies being done later, in 1966 & 1967 .
    Considering the multiple Miura styling details integrated in the design of their 2.0 targa study - my personal opinion is that it can only have been done after discovering the Miura in Geneva, for its first presentation to the public in march 1966...
     
  13. NürScud

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    #15488 NürScud, Apr 10, 2017
    Totally agree.
     
  14. joe sackey

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    #15489 joe sackey, Apr 10, 2017
    Got it and thank you very respectfully for the explanation.

    Yes, I agree there is a Miura link.

    No, I have no interest in the Porsche Design Studie, it looks like a really bad mimic attempt of the Miura, the point of which is completely lost on me. To paraphrase the a certain late great automotive journalist "it has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever", to me that is.

    That said, I can see how it is interesting to some Miura aficionados, Im sorry I'm just not one of them.
     
  15. Spyder-Man

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    #15490 Spyder-Man, Apr 10, 2017
    Joe, have you had an opportunity to see a Polo Storico restore in the flesh? Be interested to hear your opinion.
    Rob
     
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    #15491 cnpapa24, Apr 10, 2017
    I have to agree. It looks like how I may have drawn the Miura when I was 8.
     
  17. GTAV6

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    #15492 GTAV6, Apr 10, 2017
    I think that about sums it up perfectly!
     
  18. Ellagirl

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    #15493 Ellagirl, Apr 10, 2017
    First time i saw this, and hopefully the last, all neg comments(or no comments at all) are fully justified, what where they thinking?
     
  19. Ellagirl

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    #15494 Ellagirl, Apr 10, 2017
    Worlds prettiest car, the Miura, i know the E type got that status, but, not to me
     
  20. joe sackey

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    #15495 joe sackey, Apr 11, 2017
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    I have never seen this image before today!

    Apparently, this is Miguel Ángel Barrau (an Argentinian journalist I think?) trying out the 1965 Turin Salon Miura.
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    #15498 P5BNij, Apr 13, 2017
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    First post on this wonderful not to mention eye opening forum, here's a shot taken by a friend of mine a while back outside the Transport Museum in Coventry, Warwickshire... when he emailed it to me I nearly fell off my perch...!
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  24. Olivier NAMECHE

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    #15499 Olivier NAMECHE, Apr 15, 2017
    Iain Tyrrell of CCC at the wheel of #4280 Miura S converted into Jota look alike in Japan some years ago !
     
  25. unojung

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    #15500 unojung, Apr 16, 2017
    I took the photos and posted on FB.
    Had never seen such a weird creation..
     
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