Half a century since it played a memorable role in seminal film The Italian Job, the ‘crashed’ Lamborghini Miura, apparently left as a wreck in an Alpine valley, has been found.
And it turns out it was never actually crashed in the first place – because the production company had two identical orange Miura P400s all along.
Yes, one met a fiery end, before being disposed of by a bulldozer in the film’s opening sequence. But that wasn’t the car driven by actor Rossano Brazzi – rather, it was an already-crashed example, because who’d really want to wipe out two Miuras if they could avoid it, especially when someone had already done the job for them?
Of course, the magic of the movies is such that it took a few years, in that pre-internet age, for this news to surface – and then the hunt was on to find the real Italian Job Miura.
The Arancio Miura, with a white and black leather interior, is currently in the Kaiser Collection in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
