Sure it’s been told many times, but wow Lamborghini, what a story!

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Automobili Lamborghini’s origin story is by now the stuff of legend:
successful Italian tractor manufacturer Ferruccio Lamborghini,
dissatisfied with his Ferrari following a contentious meeting with Il
Commendatore, set out to manufacture “a perfect car.” Adopting the
corporate emblem of a raging bull, the spurned industrialist took on
Italy’s most legendary automaker and the two men reportedly never
spoke again.

It took barely three years for the upstart Lamborghini to not only
match, but arguably best Ferrari with the 1966 introduction of the
world’s first supercar, the Miura. Named to honor the Spanish cattle
breeder Don Eduardo Miura and his famous fighting bulls, the success
of the Miura would cast Lamborghini as a manufacturer of
uncompromising, visceral sports cars with heretofore unmatched
performance.

At the 1968 Torino Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled an updated version
of its groundbreaking Miura – the P400 S, the “S” standing for spinto,
or tuned. Benefiting from subtle cosmetic and mechanical revisions,
the P400 S addressed many shortcomings of the original design, making
it an altogether more capable and user-friendly machine. With a top
speed of 168 mph, the Miura P400 S was the fastest road car ever
tested by Road & Track magazine in 1970, which dubbed it “an
exercise in automotive art for a particularly rapturous kind of
driving.” In total, just 338 examples were built between late 1968 and
early 1971, when the P400 S was replaced by the SV.

According to factory records on file, this P400 S, chassis 4614, was
completed in July 1970. Assigned Bertone production no. 520, with
corresponding body no. 620, it was originally finished in the
fashionable color scheme of Luci del Bosco (Light of the Woods) with
Gobi (Beige) vinyl upholstery and cloth seat inserts.
 
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