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Topic: Lamborghini Miura

This looks years ahead of what everyone else was building in 1966. I saw a lot of these styling ques throughout the 70s

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

Very cool looking cars! The first one I ever saw was the Tyco HO slot car.

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

When I was attending UC Santa Barbara one of the guys in my dorm had borrowed his brother's Miura. Drove it down Hollister Road as fast as he could and wrapped it around a tree.

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

Ewww, how do you ever get past that?

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

stumbley wrote:

When I was attending UC Santa Barbara one of the guys in my dorm had borrowed his brother's Miura. Drove it down Hollister Road as fast as he could and wrapped it around a tree.

Well we are in tree hugging country. Did the tree make it through the crash and was a lawsuit taken up for the tree to sue the driver and owner????

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

Doc, apparently California is not as kind to trees as Oregon; no lawsuit. The crash was harder on the car than the tree.

Mitch, you get past it the way another did: while working at the Village Theater in Westwood (near UCLA), I witnessed the following...

A guy who worked as an usher at the Bruin theater across the street received a Porsche 911 Targa for a high school graduation present. The evening after he got the car, he totaled it. The NEXT DAY, his father had replaced the car with an identical one, and the idiot was happily driving badly again. Some people have more money than sense.

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

From a working man's viewpoint I can only think, what a shame, what a shame, what a shame.

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

Lamborghini Miura is such a funny car to me. There were a couple of design cues that were cool in that era that looked great on some cars, and looked so terrible on the Miura. The more stripped down and less louvered always seemed to look the best to me, like Mitch's Gold.  I really love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3TJKdoEef0 story of his dad's Muira.

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Re: Lamborghini Miura

Great story & vid!

Thanks!

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