New wooden dash!
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Got my new dashboard. The strangest of things: a wood-dash Series III. Just in time for the Espada's biggest adventure: FB5K Alpine Tour 3000 miles taking in the Lamborghini factory (for my Espada's 30th birthday) via Monaco.
A modicum of excitement.
Walnut stained birds eye maple - the Rolls Royce way.
Interesting place for the stereo http://hobby-elektronika.eu/audio/ on the car Phil.
Edited by Polarbert on Tuesday 21st August 13:24
You can never be sure with older Lamborghini's but you can be certain that the term 'factory option' was never used - the customer was always in a position to ask for almost anything they wanted and most actually did just that. A power steering deletion was often requested and many Espadas and cars like the Jarama were delivered without wing mirrors.
Madly, in view of passing opportunist thieves, most Espada buyers didn't specify a rolling cover for the glassed-over boot... so, ta-ta luggage if injudiciously parked, especially in 2007!!
It's certainly true that the old saw, "the prototype of the last car off the line was the one before it" applies with all Lamborghinis at that time.
Personal taste aside, I would have thought the requests to have something like this done would have been few and far between in the 1970's - unless somebody really, really lost it and asked for some Formica™ to go with their beige vinyl covered seats and the nodding Spotty dog on the other side of the dashboard.
I'm reserving judgement on the actual work that's been done until I see it - in a few weeks I guess... bring us back a stick of rock that has Sant'Agata all the way thru' it when you get there Phil, if you haven't left already!
Madly, in view of passing opportunist thieves, most Espada buyers didn't specify a rolling cover for the glassed-over boot... so, ta-ta luggage if injudiciously parked, especially in 2007!!
It's certainly true that the old saw, "the prototype of the last car off the line was the one before it" applies with all Lamborghinis at that time.
Personal taste aside, I would have thought the requests to have something like this done would have been few and far between in the 1970's - unless somebody really, really lost it and asked for some Formica™ to go with their beige vinyl covered seats and the nodding Spotty dog on the other side of the dashboard.
I'm reserving judgement on the actual work that's been done until I see it - in a few weeks I guess... bring us back a stick of rock that has Sant'Agata all the way thru' it when you get there Phil, if you haven't left already!
XXVIII said:
I would have thought the requests to have something like this done would have been few and far between in the 1970's - unless somebody really, really lost it and asked for some Formica™ to go with their beige vinyl covered seats and the nodding Spotty dog on the other side of the dashboard.
That'll be the new Gallardo SE2 then. 600 quid for a spotty dog. Audi and their options lists eh!!!flattotheboards said:
Polarbert said:
Interesting place for the stereo on the car Phil.
i was just about to say that.That is the location the interior designers of the Series 3 Espada thought best for the 'hi-fi'.
You should see where they put the cassette/radio deck in a Jarama!
It hangs down from the centre of the roof, just out of easy reach and well out of easy sight of the (about to crash) driver...
Ergonomics was a proscribed black art in Supercar Valley until around about 2001 and those who obviously practiced it were either burnt at the stake or flogged and dragged along the roads to Germany where, if they survived, they became slave labour for Mercedes-Benz and were forced to work on maximising the uses of the single steering wheel mounted lever.
... and that is the story of why the layout of switches, dials, pedals and other controls in any pre-2001 Lamborghini, Ferrari or Maserati appear to have been designed by flinging sticky-backed versions of each at a mock-up dashboard and thereby determining the finished product.
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