+1....fantastic!
Wonderful. A day to remember. Looks like the road between Mildenhall and Broad Hinton on Salisbury Plain. If so, an excellent choice! My old P300 consumed this road on several occasions! The RHD cars that Mel Nichols wrote about are still in the UK and both are now black. 40010 Oro (Convoy) the 1976 Earls Court show car. 40096 Argento (Sadness of Sant' Agata) the last car imported before homologation ended.
That's uncanny - I'm not sure exactly which road it is, but it's definitely that area of Wiltshire (the stationary photo above is by the start of the Ridgeway, which is apparently England's oldest road).
Now that you mention the Ridgeway, yes it was definitely that road (though in fact it is not on Salisbury plain). Over the years I have marked great driving roads I encounter in an old atlas with a highlighter - and this is one of those!
Great question. It's worth what someone is prepared to pay. Not enough change hands to review and compare values. I was offered $100,000 AUD for mine last week but it's not enough for me to consider letting it go. The car is virtually irreplaceable.
I was told that they are worth in a $50K range, but you're saying that there are people that will pay $100K? Wouldn't a similar variant like the Jalpa keep it's values down even with its small production numbers?
I would think given the small production numbers, $50K would be cheap, but I do agree with your point given the Jalpa. The Silhouette is prettier IMHO.
This pic was posted today by Joe Sackey in the Miura thread. The red Silhouette is in another picture taken at the factory published in Andrew Morland's book Supreme Amongst Exotics in 1986. Image Unavailable, Please Login
My own car appears in a photo in the new(ish) Landsem book, as does Ivor's. Mine is pictured on page 142 next to the 'unique Zink-Miura' [sic]. The photo is attributed to a D B Wong. Since I am trying to find out the earlier history of my car, I contacted Mr Landsem via his publishers to try to find out more. Somewhat surprisingly, he couldn't provide any information whatsoever, not even contact details for D B Wong (whom one would have thought would be entitled to some sort of royalty for the use of many of his photos). Does anyone else know anything about either D B Wong or the Zinc Miura? The photo appears to be in a private collection or showroom (there is another red Miura and what looks like a 1960s McClaren next to it). Thanks Jonathan
Raymond are you sure that the brown damage Urraco was a P250?, we can see some photo taken at the same period a P300 engine outside a car near the damage car, I try to find the story of a french P300 brown that was destoyed and rebuilt, not sure that the brown car was with french registration number but it look like... Eric
The Moorland book has several pics of the damaged Urraco. At the rear it has rubber bumpers and no 3000 badge is in evidence. The car is on a wheeled frame with the engine removed. The front is crumpled but I think it looks like a P250 style bonnet. On the same page there is a 4cam V8 engine sitting elsewhere by itself but the exhaust has four pipes! Curious.
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The Zn-75 is now the Muira Roadster once more and is blue. Here is a picture I took in the late 80's. Flying Star II is in the background. Image Unavailable, Please Login
i wonder whats the story on the white P118B.. the bulkhead looks really different from the production cars or the silhouette
I saw that but no explanation, and don't know what happened to this body, it will be nice to know more about it, why a complete body without damage was put in this place???
Ive seen a picture from that car from another angle which shows a small Puerto Rican flag on the front wings. Knowing that #40054 was originally delivered to mr. Ilariucci, who was an Italian Merchant Navy Captain living in Puerto Rico I would believe this is #40054.
Funny to see that theres again a Silhouette in the background, #40096 ? ... and today the Miura Roadster is in a major collection which includes a Silhouette.
