350/400GT thread

Where is the serial number stamped on a 350GT and an Espada engine?

 

Rich,

On a 350 the number is between the cylinder heads, it can be difficult to see but if you look in the center of the motor and down beside the water tube you will see it.

Here is a pic from the Fantasy Junction website:
http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/886-Lamborghini-350GT%20Superleggera-3.5%20Litre%20V12

Cheers, Fred

 

Rich,

It is in the same spot on my Miura from memory. I've never checked on the Espada but will and let you know.

Cheers, Fred

 

Espada, Isleros, 400GT, Jarama all are in the same position on the block in between the cylinderheads.

 

Thanks to Anamera I refound #436, a swiss car which was sold by Rob Box to USA:
http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/203423/index.html?no_cache=1&ret=63

 

350 GT didnt sell at RM at $330k!

 

Wow!

 

The 350 GT No Sale at RM is #0436. The high bid was $332,500. If the standard 10 percent buyer's and seller's fees applied to that high bid, the buyer would have paid $365,750 and the seller would have received $299,250.

400 GT 2+2 #01252 sold at RM for $280,500 including buyer's premium. That equates to a hammer high bid of $255,000 and a seller net of $229,500.

 

The auction houses sure make a killing! I wonder what their net profit margins are.

 

20% fee, wow that's incredible.
No wonder some deals are done after the auction, directly between seller and bidder...

 

2001 in service assistance bay 1324 awaiting final paint ( note the Purple NL reg Countach )

 

In most after-auction sales, it is the auction house that contacts bidders to try to get the car sold. That's what happened when I was a telephone bidder on a 1974 365 Boxer at RM's 2011 Monterey auction. Reserve was not met during the live bidding and the car was a "No Sale." I was called the next day by RM and a deal was struck. I would be very surprised if the contract a seller signs with an auction company does not give the auction house a commission on any sale of a consigned car that occurs within "X" days after the actual auction regardless of how that was arranged, on the basis that it was the auction company's efforts that introduced the bidders to the cars. If a bidder and seller somehow manage to conclude their own deal, the auction company is still owed a fee. Of course, everything is negotiable, and I have never consigned a car to auction, so this may not always be the case.

Also, 10 percent may be the standard buyer's and seller's fee, but that is negotiable. I doubt someone selling a $10 million car will be giving $1 million back to the auction company. If a company wants a particular car badly enough to use as hype for an auction, there might be no fee to the seller.

 

Agree, but what if the potential buyer finds the seller and asks him later on?
This agreement with the auction house is not unlimited...

 

Yes, likely true. The commission agreement can't go on forever. Hence the auction company's interest in getting a deal done during the auction or very soon thereafter.

Changing subjects, a gorgeous 350 GT was featured in a video on the "Jay Leno's Garage" website. I drove this car in the late spring of 2012 thanks to the generous cooperation of its owner. What a wonderful ride. The link to the Leno video is below. Note that Leno says the 350 GT has 350 horsepower. I thought that was only for the prototype? Weren't the production 350 GTs dialed back to 280 HP?

Jay Leno's Garage - 1965 Lamborghini 350 GT | Lamborghini

 

chassis #1000 for sale in the netherlands: 1966 Lamborghini 400 GT for sale: Anamera

 

For display - not for sale... on the "Touring Superleggera - Restoration Division" stand :

Great car !!!

Bruno
Miura S #4635
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You're right, and this part of the event was quiet. I didn't see a lot of people paying attention to this superb one off.

 

Much better looking than I had previously thought! Nice pics!

 

Does anyone have correct period pictures of a 350GT engine bay?

One of the detail answers I'd like to find out is, what color are the valve covers?

 

silver/aluminum
Gary Bobileff

 

Here's a pic on the valve covers. I had to crop / cut it down to size as it was a huge file.
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This is it thirty two years ago, when I last saw it. Looks a lot better now!
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My 350 GT was originally painted grigio medio (20266). The other silver variants offered from 2/65 to 3/66 included grigio argento (19765) and grigio St Vincent. Any pics of cars or color plates showing the difference between these different silvers would be greatly appreciated as I ultimately want to go back to original. Thanks