One to Buy: 1968 Geneva Motor Show Lamborghini Miura P400
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Ferruccio Lamborghini established his car making factory to build the kind of discrete, conservatively-styled Grand Tourers that he and many other low-key industrialists liked to own.
However, his talented pool of young engineers had different ideas and famously spent their evenings and weekends coming up with a wild mid V12-engined flagship that looked like something from another planet: the Miura.
Having agreed to display the new car as he thought it would garner some useful publicity, Ferruccio Lamborghini was inundated with orders and quickly gave the green light for production.
Remarkably, the Miuras that began to roll out of Sant’Agat from spring 1967 were almost exact replicas of the car that had wowed on its world debut a year earlier at Geneva.
Among the star lots lined up for Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach auctions on August 18th and 19th is this superbly restored early P400 presented in its original colour scheme of Rosso Miura with Nero leatherette and matching carpet.
Believed to have originally been displayed at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1968, chassis 3378 (which comes with its original bill of sale) has in more recent years been subject to a ground-up concours restoration in collaboration with Lamborghini Polo Storico.
