Lamborghini Miura history and drive review. Mega sound!

Well welcome to Harry's new garage and today's car is the Lamborghini Miura, amazing car and I saw this example come up for sale, classic Hubbard motor just down the road from me, I know them very well and spoke directly on the phone , I can? I borrowed the Miura and they said yes, so here it is, but while I was doing the core and getting here, a gentleman bought this car and gave me permission to make this video, so I am very grateful to the new future owner. The car is a surprising part of Lamborghinis

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. Lamborghini was making front engine cars and there was a group that Bob Wallace Dallara had hired standing at Z and they were young guys and they all came from racing and they really wanted Lamborghini to make a race car and the fruity Lamborghini said no, not at all. , you can make me a racing car for the road.

I don't care about that and they got to work and this is what they ended up with and I do go into more detail, but let's take a look at this car under the skin: what makes it so special. I really like the S version because it still had those tabs over the headlight, such a distinctive feature of the Miura, and I think that's the end of it. just this brilliant design is Tony who did it, the design has absolute pain on Gandini's part, although there is a little more to the story than that because when three she went with them for the first time, basically the idea of ​​the mid-engine that came up he then wanted. them to close it and the first designer they put on it, which Cesario Julián Sorelle was working for petone at the time, but the boss is a twist thought he was going to leave and they wanted to give him a tasty project to work on.

She didn't actually tell him what she was working on, I just gave her the design, but it didn't work and she got going and then Gandini came in and they gave her the project and she continued from where she had gotten sick, so John two top designers and no wonder it looks wonderful but it is actually a scam. DS job at the end of the day, but what a scar to have on your CV, the S version should have the same size wheels front and rear, they measure 7 by 15. it is wider, I think there are 9 inch wheels from the SV and tires wider and recently they came with 205 regular 15 tires and they went up to 205 70 max, basically it was the car was ahead of the tar technology so they just had to take the tires that were. available at the time the SV was produced, there were low profile 60 profile tires and that really changed the way the car behaves and they could do with upgrading it to take advantage of the new tires, but anyway, this is an S, pure desire, pure design, I think the SV that lost the tabs and the beautiful stylized badge and that S badge on the back Lamborghini has such style and this is a standard car that this is a car color, this car actually came out in 1968 it's called verdict that it's just green You think they're giving it a very special name, but no, it's just green, they also put it orange, but if it had it, you're behind, I was tempted to have it in this color.

Okay, one of my favorite bits of Lamborghini

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is this book about Bob. Wallace, this was done by a lady who worked at Lamborghini during the early years, Maria at Gilardi, and she convinced Bob Forrest, did an interview with him, and produced this book about the feeling of a swimmer's scrapbook in the early days of Lamborghini. favorite photo of Mitsy sitting at about 160 miles an hour you see those gloves, you actually look at another part of this book. I open this and here's another Bob Wallace and there's a set of these distinctive driving gloves that come with the book, but when he turned to Miura, first of all, you realize how young they were at the time, you would know that Dallara keeps calm and Bob Morris, they were all under 25 when they designed this Miura, so they were just kids full of new and exciting ideas in the car they really admired was the mid-engined Ford GT, so they felt good, let's see how remake a mid-engined road car that had never been done before and they started saying they had this chassis table and it moved blocks and obviously they had the v12 behind it but I never noticed the little gems in these books and I'll just read a little here.

We looked for new approaches to that, so our car was initially pretty well designed as a center seat. The three-seat car was central. driving with a tuner or longer engine, so the Miura written very well at the beginning was going to be three seats long, as you know, the engine realized that they made it clear with the packaging was not great, it was going to be quite long, it's too big and then I thought well, someone measured the engine and it was quite small, twenty-one inches wide, so they turned it around and made it transverse. I know how we're going to do the transmission now, but again, at the same time, another car and we're really admired.

It was the mini and it had a transverse engine and a gearbox or two taps, it is a unit and it was like that behind the engine, so they said they would do it without knowing very well how to do it and that's when complications arose with the idea of ​​FUS, Lamborghini loved it so much that they put it on a display stand in '65. Wow, no bodywork had been designed and there was a lot of excitement because they were going to make this mid-engined car, then pitoni got involved, then gandini shut it down and in 1966 showed up and the world went crazy.

The world's first mid-engine road car was produced. The Miura took over the show. Furusho received deposits and money they wanted the car from the buyer and somehow it went into production before it was actually ready and they graded it. of zdenda on the hull, so that's the bottom of the Miura, let's go and take a look under the skin. The car has two very distinctive front and rear clam shells. They are a great easy piece, at least the front door here we always had a slight nervousness. that's going to hit its nose on the ground Lee doesn't thank God and here we have the radiator right in the front there's a battery and a spare tire here and the fuel tank and you look in front and now it's very far in front and there This car was Quite famous at speed, it had a lot of front lift and that's why they pushed all the heavy parts on this end.

Actually, the weight distribution is not bad, it is 45 front, 55 rear and that is due to the rear, if we go to the rear, this angel places a lever on the shoulder and again it comes because this engine is transverse and has the gearbox behind, it means the engine is very close to the shepherd cell and is within the wheelbases, don't wait any further. those tires are on the back and that's why there's a pretty good weight distribution on this car, it's a beautiful engine, this bit was made by Fallini, it was a competition engine, complete Ferrari, they didn't want it, Lamborghini put it in in the Falluci Lamborghini company and then it became their engine and the engine of the goonies but it is an extreme oversquare engine called quad cam 8,000 revs 8000 rpm imagine that in the sixties it was a very exciting car and with the Miura because until now it had Side draft car pressures for the Miura could fit a stroke carburetor that has downdraft.

I just unscrewed this top part here, if I take one of these covers off, there you have all the carburetor trumpets lined up and it's obviously not a kit, it just looks like a race car as soon as I make that distributor, but this side spark plug was just underneath them, they have this reputation, theirs is an unfortunate reputation for catching fire because we have some kind of fuel leak, it drips over the head and if that fuel actually arcs spark plug and all set, so this is a little problematic, but it's wired in forestry English and new fuel lines, modern fuel lines, which is absolutely the right thing to do if you have a Miura.

The other thing I notice. it has an oil cooler which I don't think was standard in its day, it also has a competent fuel pump and a battery cut off which again is essential if you see any sir turn it off sign then you know the electrical system is working . all dead so yeah all the security for them is how easy it is to get over them if you know what the problems are and there are so many experts now that it's been in production for so long. The other thing I want to say is that you can't see the gearbox. the gearbox because it's under this plate here, very, very clever, what you can see is trying to get into the wheels at this end of the engine.

I have a clutch that just came off the crank and they only have a flywheel as such. because they say actually the weight of the flywheel comes from the gears but then it goes to the gearbox and in the early days of HR chains you had all kinds of

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to the gearbox and they ended up with these gears and that It means they actually have to go back. the way the engine turned, when the Miura went into the engine it turned in economy mode in one direction and then when they went to production they had to turn it the other direction because of the gearbox, all the little ones Lovely details show what this car was like in the beginning and they made it up as they went along, but look what they ended up with, there's a final part where we went out to

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it, I just wanted to read another passage from that Bob Wallace book, it's just this paragraph for I'm just giving you a story of what Bob Wallace's quote was like in those early days of Lamborghini and he says here if I didn't find the parts, yeah I became test boss driving the prototypes on the Mountain Rose race tracks on autostrada averaging 600 miles per day.

We started early at 5 a.m. Before traffic became heavy with the Miura, you could cover 280 miles in two hours and 20 minutes and then you could go from Rome to Naples 140 miles in less than all the factory test drives would record. the highway toll gates and Gilmer Milan to modern times in those days they used to get excited if you went through the barriers and they were like pinned to the notice board if you had a really fast time because it was actually on the ticket and well, yeah, my fastest time was 38 39 minutes for the 105 mile distance from land to modern, averaging over 160 miles per hour, crazy days but those were the early days of Lamborghini and they used to go and try to find him.

It says here that I used to try to find Daytona at Ghibli with test plates so it's running on the road so it's just this crazy competition between Maserati Ferrari and Lamborghini anyway we're not going to do that today but now I'm going . To close everything out, let's take this car for a spin, well the first thing you notice is that you might have to scream in this car because he's running, it's a pretty intense experience and Mura, a lot of

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, that engine is right behind your head and there is a lot of hearing came and yes the refinement is not up to today's standards, the right kind of noises, the other thing I have to do, although air conditioning was introduced in the 400, it is not installed in this lower summer, open to the window, which I hope you can still hear me, but it is a little more mature than other cars, but I think it will be worth it.

I also say about this car, it's their sword, obviously, it was announced, I think so and they're asking for 1.3 million and it sold in a couple of weeks, so obviously it sold pretty close to these are really valuable cars, but I want to say literally grateful to me and I will still see if you gain experience now see how it works I got these two great watches. Speedometer 300 kilometers per hour and no redline and a 10,000 rpm attacker won't use all those other gauges here obviously it's charging it's up to temperature oil pressures its temperature the oil was fine too I'm very glad to see the cooler old one Today I will go to town my girls and a little pink better whiten the lotus is quite tight in the cabinet game.

I think I could say 6ft 1 6ft 2 I can't stand the visor so I just have to fold it forward so I don't keep buttoning my head. Everything is very close. The bulkhead is fixed, obviously, because of the engine. The seat guides don't go as far back as you would like. Well, it's quite nice. position it's not really crazy out there and your knees hurt from the steering wheel, it's not, I mean it's so intense there's no other coverage like this and obviously that amazing view from my junk in the mirrors, I see those carburetors and then the distance. through the slats I can almost see behind me why the intimidating thing was wide in a mirror, nothing on that side.

I'm strictly waiting to free myself also on the floor of the hinged pedals on this, so you know, yeah, that's not cool, the heavy controls the clumsiness, etc. and then it brakes well, you really have to press the clamp. I think there's a servo on it, it's a 60 style, brake air vent, side place, you have windows on this model that were missing, but there's nothing to blow air at you, that was it. it was something that came much later, it will start on a newer one, thank you very much, this is to scam people, you know, it was going to save us, this car has been rebuilt recently, beers we made in the UK, 6,000kilometers since we rebuilt it and it is a very suitable example.

I've been circling 91 stars and he won with a neighbor of yours. He really struggles, he feels like it's because of the changes and the rational ROI policies that these tires meant, so this is disrespectful to the tires. actually had to 1.30 plus, it's a little big to feel good behind, where the star Joris is, that exactly this is a dribble, silence the equality, so they are in noise of 60 in position, pedals for the heel and sewing Bob Wallace's racing experience or where he drove, is no surprise. there are entries without their own desire to have fun, it's just been a trickle, they start to behave because it was a unique installation, they muir the engine interviewer transversally, everything was done internally, they decided that the users would have the mini gearbox and the oil of the engine all the time. just as it was all the trade as they were given a single block, but they understood that in the end it's not really a good idea to have the same oil for your gearbox and its age, particularly on an engine that revs to $8,000 and for the SV then that separated me a different pair or the gearbox.

It's not a good idea because the gearbox, obviously, when you have a creaking gearbox, you actually have the ability to use a larger metal depending on the oil filtration to get rid of those little bits. Voight walked over to the engine and has to change the grunting oil the gears make. an oil change a bit like that, but it does not mean that there is a large oil capacity despite some and it also means that the gearbox is exclusive to this car and is a conventional patent, so first it is in the normal place the high speeds and then a lock in reverse to prevent you from accidentally thinking there is a sixth gear, then Oh, the thing about the mural is that the visibility through the windows is quite deep, so the forward visibility and Side is excellent, it's a bit rubbish behind, but it's no worse than the conscience through the lazy.

In fact, I say there is a big company following me. I couldn't do that in context. I just know that there is some kind of car there that almost sees its ministry, so I'm not saying it's a practical car. Oh, I didn't actually see the trunk. this is a boot that comes in that back cover it's a good size it's a little hard whatever it has to contribute to the weight of that kind of need I suddenly realized I shouldn't have packed so many suitcases I wish I had this ventilation To say it was kind of what it was initially when they were developing this car, I guess if you're going 150 miles an hour everywhere, it's Bob who seems to be doing well as a reasonable flow of traffic, why and Mike because the Mirrors. yes, it was raised that 370 horsepower and seventy, the sensations are everywhere, the engine is smashed, it is widely in some kind of dilantin, as expected, you solve a trip around the city from home, some Maybe you think of the party as a kind of quarter-time card, like driving the Nisshin is just So it's incredible to think that what came after this for us was a surreal experience.

I suspect there is one. This one was very stable. I was doing it at the Lamborghini celebrations. Very judge in the selection of the office we have. He was standing next to me in this wait we did. a lot of bugs in this car, another one with a wonderful vision with the guy, a secret week for me, unless and the SP, then we have some things right when we get to the SP, respect, this is a nested solution like the way we they made this restoration, a driver who drives to win a calm and cool place and beat us in the original Christmas of your life, yes fantastic seven, other people rogues know what the highest and fastest speed is like, so that feels too a bit. more like the roads imagine both are easier to drive with your wait Wow expensive like the contacts the radio in this car Rachel knows this and summarized a visit to the office something cool like that in Europe sit down, don't let me compare.

I'm one of those and then you get the full experience, think about Bob every day, but driving, but what's one of them to do SP in driving ability? I really enjoyed dancing the Ferrari engine at the time, it puts even the 8011 up to par. it really delivers, so leave the score, we'll still love it. I love everything about the Miura except the 1.3 million price tag and it's big but there's only 760 something so that's why it's that price. Hey, brigade in this job? It is a small mecca of classic cars bicycles the mapping of the cantina to go see anyone I can enjoy the last stretch of my road I am going to return to them my work now the last females are going to taste so we enjoyed this video by subscribing