One to Buy: 13,000km Omani-delivered 1986 Lamborghini LM002
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Lamborghini’s twelve cylinder offerings of the 1980s perfectly exemplified how the company had shifted from its founder’s ethos.
Famously, Ferruccio Lamborghini had wanted to build the kind of discrete Grand Tourers favoured by low key industrialists. However, things quickly began to change when the radical mid-engined Miura, which had been created in secret by Lamborghini’s young team of engineers, was followed by the space age Espada.
From this point, Lamborghini became best known for outrageously styled vehicles that appealed to customers for whom money was no object. The spectacular Countach that replaced the Miura ultimately began to sprout wild looking spoilers and in 1986 Lamborghini’s flagship two seater was joined by a totally new type of high end vehicle: the LM002.
Born from Lamborghini’s stillborn Cheetah military ATV, the LM002 combined a Countach engine with arguably the most capable off-road package available at the time. Just like the Countach, the LM002 offered uncompromised styling with a hint of luxury and was unlike anything produced before or since.
As expected, a significant portion of Lamborghini’s LM series cars manufactured between 1986 and 1993 were exported to the Middle East as per chassis GLA12010 which will be going under the hammer at Bonhams’ Zoute sale in Belgium on October 12th.
One of the earliest LM002s completed, GLA12010 was configured in the evocative combination of Bianco with matching upholstery.
Originally delivered to a prominent family in Oman, in 1989 the car passed to its third owner who exported it to Belgium and has retained it ever since. GLA12010 is heading to auction in unrestored condition with a little under 13,000km on the odometer. It comes complete with original Omani registration papers documenting the names of the first two owners.
