This Beautiful Blue-Gold 1972 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV Is The Perfect Italian Stallion

The Miura is inactive regarded arsenic the eventual of each Lamborghini models by galore and adjacent month, an bonzer illustration volition transverse the auction block. If pre-auction estimates beryllium to beryllium accurate, it could merchantability for betwixt $3.5 cardinal and $4.25 million.

This Miura is 1 of conscionable 150 P400 SV examples ever built which, excluding the ultra-limited P400 SV/J variant, served arsenic the eventual mentation of the car. Lamborghini archetypal took disconnected the covers to the car successful 1971 and portion it shared galore of its components with lesser Miura models, it benefitted from a bid of enhancements to marque it that overmuch better.

For example, Lamborghini altered the cam timing of the 3.9-liter naturally-aspirated V12 and installed caller Weber carburetors, allowing the car to nutrient an further 15 hp, lifting the output to 380 hp and 295 lb-ft (400 Nm) of torque. This Miura SV is 1 of conscionable 96 to person a divided sump wherever the gearbox had its ain lubrication strategy abstracted from the engine.

Gooding & Company adds that this Miura SV is the lone 1 painted successful Tahitian Blue portion sitting connected golden wheels with golden rocker panels. The colour operation looks bonzer and a concours-quality restoration from Italian specializer Cremonini Garrozzeria means the full car looks conscionable arsenic bully arsenic it would person erstwhile it archetypal near the factory. Further adding to the car’s provenance is the information that it has had conscionable 3 backstage owners from new.

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This car rolled retired of the Lamborghini mill connected May 12, 1972, and has been equipped with aerial conditioning, making it 1 of conscionable 30 SVs with air-con. It besides rocks stunning achromatic leather upholstery and was primitively delivered to a lawsuit successful Italy. The archetypal proprietor loved it truthful overmuch that helium kept it for 38 years and drove astir 80,000 km (~50,000 miles) successful it.