Urraco numbers
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Official production numbers as given by Automobili Lamborghini SpA's website show a total of 521 cars having bbeen built but that's more like the total for just the 250 and 250S cars...
How many of these were P111, P200, P250, P250S or P300's is (as ever with most matters re. older Lamborghinis) a matter of some conjecture or whether that number includes Silhouettes which carry the word 'Urraco' cast into the gearlever gate and on the rear panel (or else in most cases just '3000') or whether Automobili Lamborghini SpA just don't really know these days if they ever truly did...
According to David Joliffe's book published originally in 2004, there were
520 P250/250S cars
66 P200 cars
190 P300 cars
with no mention there being made of the split of P111's within the P250 totals...
As a very loose average, no more than 10% of any year's Lamborghini production over the last 46 years have been rhd cars.
Therefore that implies that some 19 or 20 rhd drive P300 Urracos were built that way round... but I wouldn't even begin to bet on that ever having been close to the case.
I've seen exactly 3 rhd P300's in the last 14 years and driven one of them briefly. At least two have now left the UK in the last few months, sadly, and one of them is far too good a car to end up covered in the dust of the southern hemisphere country that it's now heading for...
The lhd P300 I drove (quite a lot) a few years ago is a gem - tough, comfortable, willing, quick, not that bothered by people with newer cars who thought they were faster than the old silver machine (for a short while at least) and quite happy to allow its rear seats to be used as a temporary coat / handbag / shopping shelf and allow the boot to be filled with a long-weekend's baggage.
It was perhaps not that happy with the monsoon-like rain it travelled through with its lights on when there were a few 'amusing' moments when using the indicators when the lights would go off, come on, go off, come on, go off, come on or else cause the big red engine warning-light-of-impending-total-doom to illuminate despite there being nothing actually wrong with the engine at all which was really in as fine a fettle as ever... that dear old 1970s Italian elastrickery strikes again...
So, short answer - probably not more than 20 rhd P300 Urracos were built and there can't be more than 2 or 3 left in the UK anyway.
How many of these were P111, P200, P250, P250S or P300's is (as ever with most matters re. older Lamborghinis) a matter of some conjecture or whether that number includes Silhouettes which carry the word 'Urraco' cast into the gearlever gate and on the rear panel (or else in most cases just '3000') or whether Automobili Lamborghini SpA just don't really know these days if they ever truly did...
According to David Joliffe's book published originally in 2004, there were
520 P250/250S cars
66 P200 cars
190 P300 cars
with no mention there being made of the split of P111's within the P250 totals...
As a very loose average, no more than 10% of any year's Lamborghini production over the last 46 years have been rhd cars.
Therefore that implies that some 19 or 20 rhd drive P300 Urracos were built that way round... but I wouldn't even begin to bet on that ever having been close to the case.
I've seen exactly 3 rhd P300's in the last 14 years and driven one of them briefly. At least two have now left the UK in the last few months, sadly, and one of them is far too good a car to end up covered in the dust of the southern hemisphere country that it's now heading for...
The lhd P300 I drove (quite a lot) a few years ago is a gem - tough, comfortable, willing, quick, not that bothered by people with newer cars who thought they were faster than the old silver machine (for a short while at least) and quite happy to allow its rear seats to be used as a temporary coat / handbag / shopping shelf and allow the boot to be filled with a long-weekend's baggage.
It was perhaps not that happy with the monsoon-like rain it travelled through with its lights on when there were a few 'amusing' moments when using the indicators when the lights would go off, come on, go off, come on, go off, come on or else cause the big red engine warning-light-of-impending-total-doom to illuminate despite there being nothing actually wrong with the engine at all which was really in as fine a fettle as ever... that dear old 1970s Italian elastrickery strikes again...
So, short answer - probably not more than 20 rhd P300 Urracos were built and there can't be more than 2 or 3 left in the UK anyway.
It is not my intention to infringe copyright but Jean-Fancois Marchet's book Lamborghini Urraco & the V8s published in 1983 by Osprey includes production figures obtained direct from the factory via Ubaldo Scarzi dated 30th June 1983.
Urraco total 791 made up from 520 P250, 66 P200, and 205 P300
1972 = 36, 1973 = 285, 1974 = 162, 1975 = 156, 1976 = 107, 1977 = 29, 1978 = 14, 1979 = 2.
Note: There should be a *1060*n* number stamped on the bulkhead at the base of the bonnet stay. I believe that this is the Bertone bodyshell serial number (as distinct from the Lamborghini serial number)and runs across all models.
The *1060* series started afresh for the Silhouette and production numbers are not included in the Urraco figures above. These were:
Silhouette total 52 + 2 prototypes #40000 & #40002 which utilized modified Urraco P300 bodies. Production car #40058 subsequently became the Jalpa prototype - the only 3.0 litre Jalpa!
As far as numbers of RHD P300s are concerned Del Hopkins would probably know but I believe that there were less than a dozed RHD cars delivered to UK.
Urraco total 791 made up from 520 P250, 66 P200, and 205 P300
1972 = 36, 1973 = 285, 1974 = 162, 1975 = 156, 1976 = 107, 1977 = 29, 1978 = 14, 1979 = 2.
Note: There should be a *1060*n* number stamped on the bulkhead at the base of the bonnet stay. I believe that this is the Bertone bodyshell serial number (as distinct from the Lamborghini serial number)and runs across all models.
The *1060* series started afresh for the Silhouette and production numbers are not included in the Urraco figures above. These were:
Silhouette total 52 + 2 prototypes #40000 & #40002 which utilized modified Urraco P300 bodies. Production car #40058 subsequently became the Jalpa prototype - the only 3.0 litre Jalpa!
As far as numbers of RHD P300s are concerned Del Hopkins would probably know but I believe that there were less than a dozed RHD cars delivered to UK.
Del would almost certainly know, as you mentioned... It just seems a shame to keep assuming he does and discover he's as sketchy as he may need to be when he is called, especially when he's got plenty of that 'being happily retired' to be done, certainly now the weather in Spain may be cooling a little for this year.
Ubaldo Sgarzi's quoted Urraco production figures (especially from the time in question) will also be riddled with 'variables' much like any production numbers for Lamborghini cars at that time...
I'd suggest that David Joliffe (and assistants) will have spoken with both Signors Sgarzi and Hopkins before publishing his book in 2004. That book is also full of inconsistencies partly, no doubt, due to the author losing some sharper-focused interest and all the better for that.
There is no such 'science' as utterly fixed and always consistent 'Lamborghiniology' - thankfully!
Ubaldo Sgarzi's quoted Urraco production figures (especially from the time in question) will also be riddled with 'variables' much like any production numbers for Lamborghini cars at that time...
I'd suggest that David Joliffe (and assistants) will have spoken with both Signors Sgarzi and Hopkins before publishing his book in 2004. That book is also full of inconsistencies partly, no doubt, due to the author losing some sharper-focused interest and all the better for that.
There is no such 'science' as utterly fixed and always consistent 'Lamborghiniology' - thankfully!
Del told me the number of RHD P300s back in the 80's but I can't remember exactly what he said!
To further muddy the waters, the Lamborghini Registry website states that 21 PIIIs were made.
Around half have numbers beginning #15 i.e. P250 series numbers and the others have numbers beginning with #20 i.e. P300 series.
I suspect that PIII production was included in the P250 and P300 numbers. This may go some way towards reconciling the disparity between the 205 and 190 for P300 production mentioned above.
To further muddy the waters, the Lamborghini Registry website states that 21 PIIIs were made.
Around half have numbers beginning #15 i.e. P250 series numbers and the others have numbers beginning with #20 i.e. P300 series.
I suspect that PIII production was included in the P250 and P300 numbers. This may go some way towards reconciling the disparity between the 205 and 190 for P300 production mentioned above.
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