One to Buy: ex-Le Lecon Particuliere 1967 Lamborghini Miura P400
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Had Lamborghini’s favoured coachbuilder, Touring of Milan, not gotten into financial difficulties, the car builder from Sant’Agata could have travelled a very different path. As it transpired, design work for the groundbreaking Miura and Espada models was entrusted to Bertone who were at the forefront of avant garde automotive styling throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s.
Accordingly, having started with the intention to build the kind of conservative Grand Tourers favoured by many Italian industrialists, Lamborghini became a byword for radical, exciting motor cars, the like of which were not offered anywhere else.
As the product that kicked off this change in direction, the first generation Miura, unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1966, has come to be regarded as arguably the most important model in Lamborghini’s history.
Currently on offer at the Tom Hartley Jnr. showroom in Leicestershire is an exceptionally well restored early Miura (the 57th built) with a most interesting history: chassis 3111.
Configured in Giallo with Bleu upholstery and dispatched to Parisian Lamborghini agent Voitures Paris Monceau on September 2nd 1967, chassis 3111 served as the firm’s demonstrator. The Miura subsequently appeared alongside Nathalie Delon in the 1968 film Le Lecon Particuliere (The Private Lesson), a movie about a student who falls in love with an older woman while her racing driver boyfriend is away in America.
More recently, chassis 3111 has been subjected to an exacting restoration by marque experts in Modena and is presented in concours condition throughout.
For more information visit the Tom Hartley Jnr. website at: https://www.tomhartleyjnr.com/
