Original Lamborghini Miura Turin Salon Chassis found.

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Only one 1965 Turin Salon Lamborghini Miura chassis was ever made, and it was designed for the Turin Motor Show in 1965. A transverse mid-mounted V12-powered machine (Lambo's first), has not been seen publicly in over thirty years.

The story of the chassis, recently purchased by a group of collectors in Los Angeles, is a worldly tale. After touring the Italian company's Bolognese factory headquarters in 1977, Marios Kritikos, a Lamborghini dealer from Cyprus, spotted the chassis and knew he had to have it. Designed by Gian Paulo Dallara, the chassis was loaded on a trailer hitched to Kritikos' Range Rover a year later, and was driven out of town.

The first ever mid-engined supercar concept sat in Kritikos' collection, untouched since its debut in Turin. Once discovered by a collector in California, the sale of the machine was negotiated by two Miura specialists, and the vehicle went state-side. Found with the car were items like its original bill of sale, and a collection of photographs from both Lamborghini and Kritikos. Now it is being restored in San Diego at the Bobileff Motorcar Company, where it will be brought back to its original Turin-show condition.

The chassis will make a US debut next summer.
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V12 go kart much?

If my history is correct, at the time of development, Lamborghini had not yet designed a body for the car, so they just put the bare chassis into the auto show. It STILL caused a sensation as just a rolling chassis. I might even concede that it is beautiful without its curvaceous body.
 
This is full of epic win...me wants
 
just put a steering wheel and seats in and drive the shit out of it!
 
Where on earth did they fit the gearbox? I can see what looks like a diff but what the heck!
 
am i the only one that went "uhh, wheres the rest of it"?

I mean im sure its super rare, but i dont even know what its supposed to look like. A 1960's italian car frame? not exactly the pinnacle of excitement.
 
Hey! Let's keep the porn in the NSFW section!

It's not often you can look at a chassis and say it's a thing of beauty, but that one certainly is.
 
I thought he misspelled saloon i was sooooo looking forward to a Lambo station wagon.


lame
 
Throw some modern tyres on and it will be epic.
 
If the brits ever had a reason to laugh at the italians, it was for that chassi, i mean just look at it, i could make something more sophisticated with legos!
 
Ottobon said:
If the brits ever had a reason to laugh at the italians, it was for that chassi, i mean just look at it, i could make something more sophisticated with legos!
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realy?

some same age britisch chassis:

1966 triumph herald
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1968 austin gipsy
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jaguar e-type
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i'ld take the miura one if i get the choice...
 
Ottobon said:
If the brits ever had a reason to laugh at the italians, it was for that chassi, i mean just look at it, i could make something more sophisticated with legos!
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Are you an engineer? For the 1960's that looks pretty damn sophisticated to me.
 
Okay i will admit the british part was weak, but my concern is that although i love the muira, all the things that make it special, its styling by a hot young interior designer, its louscious v12 engine, the package itself wasn't that great. All the artistry was perfect but technically it was a big "so what". Nothing spectacular about making the first mid engine super car and forgetting to maybe rotate the transaxle arrangement so you don't have all the engine weight up at the roofline of the car. Sure i would like more cars to have double-wishbones, but its not like it was a first for that either, nore does it help that jaguar was getting better results out of truck axles 10 years previously.

My point is the only reason to like that chassi is because your a car boor. All your other friends would probably spill beer all over it like it was some crappy old go-cart frame. I'd rather pay double for the original Gandini sketches of the car, hang those on my wall, then for the lame smelly-ass chassi
 
Its spelled chassis
 
Imagine having this in your living room. Its a beautiful piece of art as far as I'm concerned.
 
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