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Rare Lamborghini Parked in a Living Room for 40 Years, They Tore Down a Wall To Get It Out
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This 1970 Lamborghini Miura spent long 40 years parked in its owner's living room (yes, living room, you read that right!). The owner finally decided to sell it. However, the men who went to retrieve it had to tear down a living room wall to set it free.
Detailing guru Larry Kosilla got a call from his friend, Barrett. The exotic car broker had discovered a Lamborghini Miura with an incredible story. The car had been tucked away inside someone's living room, somewhere in Long Island, New York for the past 40 years.
The Miura, which had rolled off the production line of the Lamborghini factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, northern Italy, in July 1970, had been sitting there, sheltered from the elements, for four decades, with not a single mile added to its clock.
"It is one of my all-time favorite cars," Larry Kosilla admits as he gets emotional even before he sees the Miura with his own eyes. The detailing expert has gotten his hands on all sort of insanely expensive and rare cars over the years, including the $4 million Aston Martin Valkyrie, but the Miura still holds a special place in his heart.
It is actually more than a Lamborghini Miura. It is a Miura S. It is a unicorn in the collectors' world. Lamborghini built only 764 Miuras between 1966 and 1973. However, only 338 of them were the S (P400S) version. Regarded as the world's first true supercar, the Miura is powered by a mid-mounted naturally aspirated 3.0-liter V12.
It cranks out 365 horsepower (370 metric horsepower) and 286 pound-feet (387 Newton meters) of torque. Compared to the original P400, the Miura S had some extra oomph (20 horsepower more), upgraded carburetors and camshafts, making it rocket from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 kph) in just 5.5 seconds.
That might not sound like much by today's standards, when we hear about cars rocketting from 0 to 60 in under 2.0 seconds. However, the Miura S was the fastest production road car on the planet back then. It ran down the quarter mile in 13.2 seconds and maxed out at 177 mph (285 kph), while the non-S variant donned 174 mph (280 kph).
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