Miura, the original supercar

The crankshaft on the hardwood floor made me smile. ;^)

 

nice pics

 

That's an excellent color. A nice subdued hue.

 

Great site on a great car Joe. I remember this "barn find" was auctionned off sometime in the last year or so. What did Mr. Gordon pay for this one off Miura?

I also see the resto is in good hands...

 

Yep that was one of those "I should have" when I could at $750,000.00 a year ago.......

Oh well it will be in good hands...

 

I was interested to read kidston's remarkes in SCM about the SV that sold at the Gooding auction for $869,000. The car was unrestored but appeared in decent shape. Kidston compared the car to values of an SVJ which he said recently sold privately for over 2M, but didn't mention this price of 869K relative to the Russo and Steal car which sold for $950,000 (a bobileff perfectly restored car). I did find it strange that he thought 869K was "slightly over market," considering the 950K paid for the SV at Russo the same weekend, and the 2M for the SVJ, and his conclusions that there are more buyers than sellers. (he didn't address or distinquish this but a perfect miura restoration costs $200K now, and the $950K Russo and Steal car was just done) Maybe he ment the price was strong due the less than perfect condition of 4882? I was left a tad confused as to his market analysis.

Be that as it may, is there any rain dance we can do to crash the Miura market?? If you have one for investment, I'm sorry to do this dance, but I'd like to add a green one to my collection, and all of this attention is makeing me mork much harder to accomplish!

 

I agree, it IS loud. I saw a video of the car driving out of one of the Concorsos (socalspeedzone did the video), and it drove by the camera and was very loud for a Miura. Especially when the driver apparently downshifted at too high RPM.

 

If your dream comes true, please drive up to Dallas and make my Verde dream come true by giving me a ride in it.

 

Time flies. I do remember you being involved in the sale. Congrats. Was that not the infamous first Lambo to hit $1 Million?

John is now talking about a $2 million car! Any pics of said car? This is crazy

 

Adam Gordon Quote from the site: "But it is less important that it is my car than that it is the Miura Roadster."

This is contrary to the impression that I got after visiting the site. Hmm.

Anyways, I'm delighted that ZN-75 is gone forever.

 

Some of the confusion may also lie in the difference between prices achieved for sellers, and purchase prices for buyers. For example, over the past 6 months I've been told of 3 Miura SVs for sale at over $1,000,000, but that price includes $50,000 to this guy, $25,000 to this other guy, and some more money to this guy over here, etc, etc. So the car is really cheaper, but by the time it gets to me, there's as much as a 15% royalty.

Even a 5% royalty on $1,000,000 is a $50,000 spread, so 5-15% is a $50,000 to $150,000 price difference, for the same car.

BTW, I don't have any problems with that system - I've used it myself to find many great cars, and it's the only thing which I've found to work effectively and quickly. I'm just using it to illustrate a reason for potential market confusion.

 

to the man on the street the only figure that means anything is the one paid by the buyer - eg what it actually cost to buy

a fixed fee once the price goes over a certain amount might be a better bet (for everyone bar the broker)
i mean its not like they really have to work harder to sell a £1M Miura SV than a $500k Miura S yet they would get twice the money for doing so

 

odd, i didnt find it over promoting the owner at all.

 

agreed.
just about the only thing i picked up on him was he is in real estate and seems to be really enthusiastic about the Miura


just looked at the site again, and about the only thing you could argue is that the "about the owner" hyperlink maybe should be further down the list - but thats maybe me just being picky and trying to find a fault after the comment by xs10shl

 

So what are the thoughts on the P400 Miura sold at RM London Oct 31 for 205K pounds...roughly $465K USA funds???

 

shows that there really is a massive gulf between SV and P400 prices

 

I know. I was wondering the same thing. I mentionned it and no one said anything...