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10 years ago this month, I first inspected Miura #3586 at the Ferretti premises, not knowing that I was looking at a very special car. 18 months...
We have a soft spot for the Murcielago too. Here is our R-SV in action (Last of 5 built). [ATTACH]
The full VIN is ZA9BC10E04LA01066. From my understanding, Lamborghini financed the GT1 program and subcontracted Reiter Engineering to do so....
Well, this is it for the this post on the Murcielago R-SV #1066. We are very proud to have found this car, took it back on the track, and add to...
Here is a little onboard video during testing at Le Mans. SOUND ON, VOLUME UP [MEDIA]
The next step was to put the Le Mans livery back on and ... race at Le Mans ! Yes, we simply took the only Murcielago R-SV GT1 that raced the 24...
In May we received a phone call from master photographer Kevin Van Campenhout (@kevinanc on IG) who offered us to do a photo shoot for Octane...
Next outing was at a private track day on a smaller (and slower) track. This nevertheless offered a descent straight to exercise the 6.5 L and a...
March 2021, a full black Murcielago R-SV GT1 was loaded in our trailer, heading out to Magny-Cours, a formula 1 track which hosted the French GP...
Our goal was to take #1066 back where it belonged: the racing track. We thus embarked on a full preparation in order to make it race ready again....
Murcielago R-SV #1066 stayed with Mr.Noritake (from JLOC) until 2015 when it was sold to a private collector in Japan. The new owner was a genuine...
So chassis #1066, what’s the story ? First off, and as planned, the JLOC purchased the car from Reiter to compete one last time in the 24 hours...
Simultaneously, the JLOC probably became the largest Reiter customer worldwide, owning no less than 4 Murcielago R-GT, and one Murcielago R-SV...
The Murcielago R-GT first saw action in 2004, in the FIA GT championship, the American Le Mans Series and All Japan GT championship. It raced in...
As very little has been posted on the GT1 adventure Lamborghini embarked on from 2003 to 2011, I thought I would take advantage of the opportunity...
Olivier, Firstly my post was not about you, I made it clear that you played a role in that story by being able to access the factory documents...
An interesting interview of Iain Tyrrell has just been released on YT here : [MEDIA] Of course, one of the main subject is the Italian Job Miura....
The color of #3586 has always been a sensitive subject, as very often during my research the idea of #3586 being the Italian Job Miura was quickly...
Sorry for my late contribution, I have just read the last 5 pages of the thread and found it very entertaining. Back on the color subject, I...
I like to think I did a bit more than starting to investigate.