Driving eight Lamborghinis in a single day leads to an unexpected infatuation with a scissor-door hero of yore.
It was late in the day when the Miura caught fire. Someone was sitting in it with the engine off and the key in the on position, assuming the car would be happy to keep the V-12's fans running. It also kept the fuel pump running, so when the car was eventually started, the overfull carbs burped out fuel onto the hot exhaust manifolds.
They got the budding conflagration snuffed before damage was done, but after that, the car went into a trailer, not to be seen again. If you ever get to drive eight Lamborghinis in one day, try to snag the Miura first.The 1973 Miura SV was the star attraction of a spectacular lineup mustered to celebrate Lamborghini's 60th birthday. We were to start at the factory in Sant'Agata, drive up into the hills, and take turns behind the wheel of significant cars from the various epochs.
Over the course of the day, some themes emerged. I learned that throughout much of Lamborghini's history, primo console real estate was devoted to the ashtray. Dogleg first gears require that you constantly mutter "Reverse is where first should be," lest you overcome whatever feeble detent defends the upper left slot of the shift pattern and find yourself hurtling backward when you meant to step away smartly from a stop sign.
In the 400GT, I felt like a postwar industrialist en route to my country house in Siena. The Countach was like driving a Van Halen video. The Gallardo made me feel like an interloper who chanced onto a parade of Lamborghinis with my financed-for-84-months former Vegas rental car, although it might've sounded the best of all of them in the tunnels. And the Miura was divine, 380 V-12 horses against a claimed 2745 pounds, with skinny tires and no power steering.
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