Is this the Italian Job Miura ?

A perforated leather headrest is rare in a Miura. It is made of five leather stripes which are perforated with hole patterns repeated all along the stripe. Each stripe begins with a random pattern that is different from one stripe to another and of course different from one car to another.
If we compare the Miura headrest in the movie and the one of #3586, they are strictly identical. Not only do they have the same color and same very rare perforated leather, but each stripe of leather starts with the exact same pattern of holes in both cases. What's more, there is a bigger hole on the bottom of the headrest followed by a series of smaller holes. This bigger holes is present on both cars at exactly the same place. Could that be a coincidence ?
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Another view and comparison. The snapshot is from when Beckerman enters the tunnel.

1,2,3,4,5 : note that on each of the 5 leather stripes, the perforated pattern is strictly identical. Look at the first holes on each of the stripes. The pattern starts with the exact same holes on both cars

6 : On the lower leather strip, there is only one bigger hole located on the left. The big hole is at the same place on both cars

7 : The left screw : the seam of the bottom of the headrest passes through the first third of the screw. Same on both cars

8 : The right screw : the seam of the bottom of the headrest passes through the middle of the screw. Same on both cars
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Yes they look the same. Another similarity.

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Well, my last post on the headrest has not brought much reaction so here is the center console comparison.

The center console shows six gauges and is covered with leather. On the top of the center console there is a stitching that is normally straight. On the Italian job Miura the stitching shows three clearly visible defaults. These defaults are present on #3586 at the same place.
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Thanks. The dash on #3586 is black but the picture does not reflect the true color.
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#3586 today and a snapshot of the Italian job.
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When the elements published here had first been showed to few people, the same main objection came out : "this looks like the same car but in the movie the Miura looks dark orange (Rosso Miura) whereas #3586 is light orange (Arancio Miura)".
We tried to find an explanation, first thinking that maybe #3586 had been repainted from Rosso Miura to Arancio when one of the previous owner looked into a registry and saw that Arancio color and thought it was the original one, and that maybe the registries are wrong and the original color is not Arancio, ...

Well, the explanation came with a picture given to us by a former crew member of the movie.
It had been taken during the shooting with an Hasselblad camera showing the fake car (I don't know how to call it) in the accident scene outside the tunnel.
It has to be pointed out that the movie was shot in 35 mm and that many parameters (such as filters, type of film roll used, ...) resulted in the colors on the screen being lightly altered from reality. On the other hand, the Hasselblad camera does not alter the colors.
The picture showed here under now belongs to the British Film Institute and can be retrieved in their archives under reference #Bfi-00o-7xx.

We can clearly see on the picture here under that in the movie screenshot, the car appears rosso Miura (dark orange) whereas in reality, as shot by the Hasselblad, it is Arancio Miura (a lighter orange). It is also obvious to say that the wrecked car had been repainted in the same color as the driving car to match.
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Another comparison of a screenshot of the original movie, the Hasselblad picture, and a recent picture of #3586 shows the same body color on #3586 and the Hasselblad picture.
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The mirror has probably been added at some point, when exactly I don't know.

 

I have just been confirmed that this is actually Enzo Moruzzi who is the driving the Miura.
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What is sure is that the "Italian Job" is an icon of a movie. And the opening scene is something that probably all car nuts do remember. I have been told that the film is played on TV at least once a year in UK.
It is not the car of a famous people, it is a car of a famous movie.
It is probably one of the most famous Miura, and long thought after one.
So yes, I would tend to think that it is worth more than a regular Miura P400.