Yahoo Autos Lamborghini Restored the Miura from the Original Italian Job Movie, and It's Spectacular
This is the Lamborghini Miura featured in the start of the 1969 film The Italian Job; it carries chassis #3586.
It has been fully restored by Lamborghini's factory restoration program, which is called Polo Storico.
This car is one of two Miuras used for filming; the other was also an orange Miura that had already been wrecked.
Any example of the Lamborghini Miura is a special thing, but this particular car stands above the rest because of its fascinating history. Miura #3586, finished in orange with a white amd black leather interior, was the car featured in the iconic opening scene of the 1969 film The Italian Job, and it has now been fully restored by Lamborghini's own factory restoration program, called Polo Storico.
The story behind the car is compelling. When Paramount Pictures first approached Lamborghini for a car to use in the film, the production company found an orange Miura that had been wrecked in the Middle East and returned to the factory and decided to use it for the scene in which the Miura ends up destroyed. Lamborghini then provided a second, fully intact orange Miura for the driving shots in the film. This second Miura P400, which was driven by actor Rossano Brazzi and stunt driver Enzo Moruzzi on the Great St Bernard Pass, then fell into obscurity for decades, passing through the hands of many owners. A 2015 story from Octane Magazine purported to find the car, then in the hands of classic-car collector Iain Tyrrell, in less-than perfect condition.
Lamborghini says that collector Fritz Kaiser from Liechtenstein then purchased the car in 2018, at which point the Polo Storico division got its hands on it and began work on the car. And now, we're fortunate enough to see the one-of-a-kind Miura #3586 in all its glory thanks to these photos.
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