One to Buy: Mad Max'd ex-Rudi Klein 1967 Lamborghini Miura P400
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When the Lamborghini Miura debuted in more-or-less production-ready trim at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1966, it became the first car conceived for road use with a twelve cylinder mid-mounted engine.
At the time, the only other option for a large displacement mid-engined machine was the Ford GT40 which, by contrast, was an impractical thinly veiled racing car with nothing like the refinement a Miura could offer.
As a consequence of its thoroughbred engineering and exotic appearance which obviously make it a thing of great value, a Lamborghini Miura would be just about the last car you would ever expect to see in a junk yard.
At Rudi Klein’s Porsche Foreign Auto Wrecking in Los Angeles there were three.
Of these, the most extraordinary looking example is chassis 3195, the 52nd Miura built and thus one of the early examples that used a 0.9mm gauge chassis. Configured in Giallo Miura with Bleu Fintapelle upholstery, chassis 3195 was dispatched from the factory on November 3rd 1967 with its destination Roberto Carpanelli’s Lamborghini dealership in Rome.
Not much is known of the car’s subsequent history until May 1979, by which time the Miura was titled to a resident of Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles. Foreign Auto Wrecking purchased the engine-less car in June 1980, where it has resided ever since.
The Rudi Klein Junkyard Collection will be going under the hammer with RM Sotheby’s in Los Angeles on October 26th.
