Lamborghini Mira, a new Italian sports car that was turning heads. It was as a radical departure from traditional design as one could imagine, as was his introduction at the Turin motor show in November 1965, where the P 400 chassis were shown, without a body! world – renowned Italian coach builder ' Nuccio Bertone '  was so impressed with the naked chassis that he proposed to drape it in proper garments to make a real car . Ferruccio Lamborghini , who had established his company only to years earlier in the city of Bologna Italy , accepted Bertone's offer , and a stunning results was completed in time for the Geneva show the following March . The audience was so smitten by the audacity of the Lamborghini's engineering and the beauty of Bertone's coach work that the problem suddenly became how to get the Miura built quickly enough to meet the sudden demand for this revolutionary new sports car.

​Rushed to the market , early versions lacked some refinements expected by the buyers . The untinted windshield sloped back so far that the occupants had sat in brilliant Italian sunshine . Conveniences , such as air conditioning and a radio , were never considered since the mechanical roar generated by the chain–driven camshafts in the mid-engine two-seater would have made the radio in practical , any air-conditioning would have drawing power from the engine . Other excitements included a  peculiar latch ( for the rear body section covering the engine ) that didn't always latch , but the fundamentals were glorious . Getting off the line was really startling . Climbing modest hills in top gear was no trick at all ; and a mechanical music never stopped . As subsequent versions were brought to market , the various flaws were corrected , amenities appeared , and an era achieved a status unchallenged in its time . Miura was sort of a catalyst for the era. It began an entire generation of rear – engine ( mid-engine ) and it designs from other Italian automakers . The Miura was never quite a finished car , so not everything was thought out . For example , you can throw it into a left or right hand turn at  high-speeds and the oil pressure would drop . There was also a tremendous amount of front–end lift at high speed , but it was a car built as much for styling as anything else . That's the way the designer Bertone Marcello Grandini wanted it . this was probably the best – looking car Lamborghini ever built , but when the first Countach came along around 1973 , everybody got excited in the Miura quickly faded from popularity.

I like the Miura more than the ' Countach' .  I like the car where all four wheels are the same size , from the standpoint of how the car sets . The Miura has a defined sense of style , one man's idea of what a sports car should look like as opposed to a wind–tunnel test and all that ,  which is probably a better way to do it , but you just don't see any sports cars like the Miura anymore . Cars that were styled with no outside influences . It was made to look good , and that's that , what can I say . The Italian cars the specialty Coach builders and design engineers simply have caught the look that we now come to expect in a modern super-car today. As our magazine will share in the upcoming stories of just awesome unbelievable beautiful exotics of today.

Lamborghini – Italy's raging bull

The Lamborghini Miura , has a definite sense of style , what a man's idea of what a sports car should look like.

'1973 COUNTACH