Shah Lambo Miuras, is one still there in Teheran?

I found an old article on the net

Telegraph newspaper
Shah's car collection is still waiting for the green light
By Behzad Farsian in Teheran12:01AM BST 07 Oct 2004

by a Iranian writer in which he mentions the Shah's Miura SVJ. To quote:



A rare 1971 Lamborghini Miura SVJ next to it was found 10 years ago. A private collector had concealed the car under a greenhouse."

I thought the Shah's Lambo was the one actor Nicholas Cage owned, the one the Shah had that he had fitted with snow tires for ski trips in Switzerland.

At any rate, is the Museum starting to sell cars now? Can I put their cars on my wish list?

 

if any of the Shah's Miuras was ever sold at a bargain price when it was rather decrepit, if any of them got to that state. The reason is that I am giving a speech at Monterey in August on the great garage finds of the last few decades and could include one of the Shah's Miuras if any of the three that I have heard of ever fell into a sad state like the Greek singer's car stored at the hotel in Athens for 30 -plus years (they tried to auction it with the engine separate but it failed to meet reserve). I don't want to include cars that were relatively clean and always changed hands at the going market price as that's no "barn find" by my defination.

This website Iran Supercars: Shah's two 1971 Lamborghini Miura
has all three of them, let us know how valid their information is.
I tried to include mos tof the words here but the website is worth going to for the nice pictures.
By the way I did not open all the other boxes, maybe there's more pictures.

The website was posted Saturday, May 26, 2007
Shah's two 1971 Lamborghini Miura
1971 Lamborghini Miura SVJ "Jota"





The 1971 Lamborghini Miura SVJ, chassis #4934, was built for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah stored this car under armed guard with a Miura P400 SV in Royal Palace in Tehran. After he fled the country during the Iranian Revolution, his cars were seized by the Iranian government. The SV/J was sold into Dubai in 1995. In 1997 this car was sold via a Brooks auction to US actor Nicolas Cage, at US$490,000, becoming the model's highest ever price sold in an auction. Cage sold the car in 2002. Now owned by a collector in London, England.

More information and pictures: http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/Miura/MiuraJota/4934.html

1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV



The 1971 Lamborghini Miura SVJ, chassis #4870, was specially ordered by Shah Reza Pahlavi. Neither the Pope, nor the President of the United States, nor the President of the Soviet Union have ever owned a Miura. Factory sources states that the Shah personally visited the factory in Italy briefly in early 1971, accompanied by his wife Queen Farah Diba, en route from his winter home in St Moritz, Switzerland to the Royal Palace in Tehran. The Shah's Lamborghini's were delivered via S.E.A Automobili in Rome, as was #4870. After security clearance, this SV was flown to Teheran, Iran, and stored under armed guard at the Royal Niavaran Palace with the Shah's collection of several hundred cars. By account of both the Shah's family and the caretaker of his collection, the Shah adored this Miura SV and often drove it, with armed SAVAK security guards in tow in a Mercedes 600.




On January 24th 1991, the car was imported into Italy after being 'rescued' from Iran. It was refurbished in 1991 to 1993. The Italian owner kept the car until 1998, when he sold it privately to its next owners Joe and Margaret Sackey via a European Broker. The car also has its original Teheran Government licence plates TEH-88540 (fully restored in green on white) as came with the car.

More information and pictures: http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/Miura/MiuraSV/4870.html

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