BTW, is that you with another goodfella in the back behind the car?
Posted on 05/12/2019 10:07:54 AM PDT by ETL
A long-lost Lamborghini Miura P400 featured in the classic 1969 heist flick, “The Italian Job,” has been rediscovered and restored just in time for the classic film’s 50th anniversary this June.
The bright orange coupe can be seen being driven by Rossano Brazzi through the Great St Bernard pass connecting Switzerland and Italy as the opening credits roll, up until he drives into a dark tunnel and crashes into a bulldozer, which pushes the car off of a cliff.
But it wasn’t the same car. According to Lamborghini, the filmmakers purchased an already wrecked Miura to destroy and borrowed a new one for Brazzi to drive. The only caveat being they had to swap the white seats for black ones so they wouldn't get stained.
After production was complete, that car was returned to the automaker and sold with the original seats and its connection to the film forgotten for some time.
The car changed several times since then as some classic car historians were trying to match a Miura to the one in the movie to avail.
Then last year, it was purchased by a car collector in Liechtenstein named, Fritz Kaiser, who had a hunch it might be the one and decided to go to the source for help to find out.
He sent it to the team at Lamborghini’s historic center, who researched the chassis number, #3586, and interviewed employees who were around at the time the film was being made, including the man who performed the stunt driving duties Enzo Moruzzi.
As far as it is concerned, everything checked out. So it restored it, certified it and officially closed the book on the search.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Scroll down and watch the left side video on this Subaru site:
Thanks for straightening me out on this. I must have been thinking of something else, like a Bourke engine.
Live and learn!
You’re very welcome.
BTW ETL, great thread. The Miura was my first foreign love but I haven’t thought about them in years. This thread took me back there.
LOL
BTW, is that you with another goodfella in the back behind the car?
LOL
Too before our time.
My and the guys would be wearing leather jackets with Crosses on :)
And of course dressed in black from head to foot :)
OK, then just...
THAT’S US!! :)
whaddayugunnudo
As in:
“I heard you crashed your car.”
“whaddayugunnudo”
The hood is too long. The driver position is too low. Cheap interior and Everything is plastic.
There are two cars in my post 25. Do you mean the blue '69 Vette? It's the one with the longer hood, which, btw, I think looks fantastic, as does the entire car.
The C3 is an ugly car and drives like fish out of water.
By the mid 70s it was painfully under powered as well.
So would you trade a C3 for a Muira straight up?
You can't be serious?
AS for engineering, I'm sure the Lamborghini is vastly superior.
Why all the 3/4 front shots? Because it hides the hood length and height.
The C1 and the C2 were in fact beautiful. The C3 is the automotive equivalent of a Disco Ball.
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