We’ve all had the occasion to be slightly protective of our vehicular pride and joy. I have routinely crammed four cars into a traditional two car garage in the interest of protecting as many of them as I can from the elements (and the prying eyes of an HOA), but the former caretaker of this Lamborghini Miura 400S has gone one step further as the last place this car saw for close to four decades was the living room. That’s right: this is the so-called “Living Room Muira”, socked away next to the coffee table and the barcalounger, and now coming up for auction courtesy of Gooding & Co.
We sometimes forget just how significant the Miura was. When you go back through time and recount the list of the world’s most impactful super cars, it’s incredible how many of them belong to Lamborghini. In some ways, I feel the current manifestation of the brand has lost some of this pedigree; I realize that’s more a result of my getting older and looking at the cars of my youth through rose-colored glasses, but there’s no denying that as progress marches on with impunity, some character is lost. Lamborghini’s automobiles were just oozing charisma in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but they were also offering world-beating performance. According to Lamborghini’s own website, the Miura was “…the fastest production car in the world,” with a top speed of “…280 km/h and an acceleration of 0 to 100 km/h in 6.7 seconds.”
Then there was the shape. My God, the shape! This remains one of the most achingly beautiful cars ever created. The current crop of supercars are amorphous blobs, designed by computer rather than a craftsman with generations of Italian blood pumping through his veins (yes, I know, I’m about to become the annoying uncle at Christmas who complains about the quality of deli meats and how many times I trudged to work uphill, both ways, in the snow.) Still, there’s no denying that a car like the Miura has aged incredibly well, and this one clearly benefits from years of indoor storage with apparently decent humidity controls inside the house in which it was stored. It’s not exactly a time-warp car mileage-wise, either, with just over 42,000 KMs shown.
Of course, this Miura will still need extensive reconditioning as these cars sell for simply too much money to be lightly buttoned up and put back on the road. I do hope the next owner keeps some of the visible scars in place, and takes care to preserve its beautiful Luci del Bosco paint and original body panels. What’s even more fascinating is that according to the release from Gooding, this Miura was previously unknown – a car lost to the living room, only to emerge decades later as the pinnacle of a survivor with its numbers-matching engine in place. Find more information here on the Gooding & Co. website.
Looks fast sitting still. Hope whoever buys it gets it back to its original glory including getting the paint to match all around. Did have one of our Sprite race cars in the office to protect it from an impending hurricane but not sure the Miura would fit.
Hey man! Use a coaster.
I take that owner was a bachelor?
lol.
Or he married the right woman. Personnally, my wife lets me keep my cars and car stuff wherever I want. As long as it’s in the garage.
Livingroomfinds.com
Does it have all cylinder head screws? (Lotus Above).
Lol, I read that too, home rebuild job?
Beautiful. But for us in the States, metric stats doesn’t mean anything. I remember they started us on that in school in the late 70’s, early 80’s, but they gave up knowing the metric system here won’t ever catch on.
Must of missed all that. My Ford motorhome chassis, Chrysler van and Mini Cooper are all Metric.
I was in the USAF in 1976. I was tasked with training my unit in the metric system, without any instructional materials, etc. I found a coloring book on the metric system in a toy store, cut it apart and copied it. Add a couple big boxes of crayons and we were set. I actually received a letter of commendation from Tactical Air Command for my “excellent training program”. 😂
Yea, other then every car I own and the entire bicycle industry… Metric means nothing here in the U.S. My S.A.E. tools look like new. My metric set looks like they have been through the wars. If one cannot count to 10 (which is what the metric system is based on) then it is just further proof of the deterioration of the education level in the U.S. It’s embarrassing.
Ha ha…yes, Bob Hess, you kind of beat me too it. any modern car, manufactured anywhere in the world these days, even US based, has all metric threads, fasteners…and real scientists and serious technology has been metric for decades because it just works better. We may hang on to inch measurements for a long time to come, for the old guy buying woodscrews from the local hardware store? but it’s out of step with real scientific/technical norms…
1/32 or 1/64th of an inch. I often use metric when building projects in the shop.
Is the passenger door repainted? Color looks different.
Beautiful car, I don’t care about metric.
I want.
This needs a LOT of work! It looks like a rat, sat on the center console, and got nesting material from the passenger seat. And rust on the air cleaners. It would have gotten better care from somebody who actually drove it!
“lightly buttoned up and put back on the road” is exactly what I’d do with it. Address any mechanical issues and enjoy. You can keep your restored classic, give me a driver.
At 1 million the way it sits, that car will never again be a driver.
Mind blown ever since I spotted this car in a Playboy mag in the day. Along with a Bizzerini, both holy grail cars.
Might as well add the Grifo..
Must have been some living room!
This is what the GT40 would’ve looked like if the Italians had styled it, except for those goofy Groucho Marx eyebrows on the pop-up headlights. Enzo Ferrari’s petty jealousy probably prevented him from declaring the Miura more beautiful than the E-type.
Built entirely of unobtainium this car would never be mine, but if I were to win the Powerball I would have a house built around it.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Always been a Miura fan
Beautiful styling
Classically Italian
Definitely unobtainable for me
Dang I need to buy some lotto tickets, lol
Just buy it and drive it like it is. You don’t have to worry about door dings.
Or something like that.
Aren’t these Lambo’s being auctioned off at Pebble Beach ?
Lamborghini should tool up and build more of these. There would be a stampede of buyers.
I’m sure that modern technology could solve the emissions issue. The crash safety might be impossible while maintaining the aesthetics.
Forget it… just another crackpot idea of mine.
But where would they put all the batteries?
When I was in high school (circa 1986) a Miura S showed up in the Nickel Ads, the local free ad paper. My buddy and I went to look at it because we knew the likelihood of ever seeing one in the wild was nigh on impossible. The owner was very gracious to two dumb kids, surprised that we would drive two hours just to look at a car. He started it up for us but no ride was offered. It was a really nice example in blue w/ silver and blue interior. He was asking $27,000 for it. We actually went and looked at it again a month later. It’s still the only one I’ve ever seen outside a museum.