RE: Lamborghini Islero | Spotted
Discussion
FPC said:
TR4man said:
I’ve always lusted after Lamborghini’s underdogs.
The Islero and Jarama were always more interesting to me than their more famous siblings.
Yes same here. For me add Jalpa and Urraco to the list.The Islero and Jarama were always more interesting to me than their more famous siblings.
And this car is just a lovely thing.
BigChiefmuffinAgain said:
Back in the late 90s my dad was looking at buying one of these in France to use as a daily alongside his countach and diablo. He found one unloved at the back of a dealers. It was mechanically sound but not an S. Price was £8000. Those were the days..... He didn't buy it.
In the mid 2000’s I nearly bought a Ferrari 400i for 10k, then nearly bought a maserati ghibli 4.7 for 14k or Espada for 17k then finally bought a Tvr chimera 450 for 17k. Ohh how I regret my stupidity looking back on things. The ghibli or espada could have meant mortgage free living now.Sub5 said:
Very Nice. Beautiful engine bay….floats my OCD boat on cleanliness
The film was pretty good too…
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-ma...
Up for auction in 2010. Guide price of £95,000 - £135,000. Wonder how much it went for
It went for £95k including premium. I know because it was me who was selling it! Those photos were taken in my driveway. The film was pretty good too…
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-ma...
Up for auction in 2010. Guide price of £95,000 - £135,000. Wonder how much it went for
Edited by VWXL1 on Sunday 9th February 19:46
ducnick said:
In the mid 2000’s I nearly bought a Ferrari 400i for 10k, then nearly bought a maserati ghibli 4.7 for 14k or Espada for 17k then finally bought a Tvr chimera 450 for 17k. Ohh how I regret my stupidity looking back on things. The ghibli or espada could have meant mortgage free living now.
I remember looking at an Espada when it came up for sale about 2010 for £25k. Gorgeous.
One of my earliest posts on PH was a link to an Islero that was for sale in the UK. It was silver and just been restored, and was for sale for £40k ish IIRC. I can clearly remember saying "I could cut a dash in this" and a few posters suggesting I do it! Of course I never did 
I recall from other ads from ~2006 that these could be had for €40-45,000. Even then that seemed ridiculously cheap.
I recall from other ads from ~2006 that these could be had for €40-45,000. Even then that seemed ridiculously cheap.
JuniorD said:
One of my earliest posts on PH was a link to an Islero that was for sale in the UK. It was silver and just been restored, and was for sale for £40k ish IIRC. I can clearly remember saying "I could cut a dash in this" and a few posters suggesting I do it! Of course I never did
I recall from other ads from ~2006 that these could be had for €40-45,000. Even then that seemed ridiculously cheap.
Yes the guy who restored it only managed to get £40k for it even though he'd just spent far more than that on the restoration - but this was just at the end of the big price crash at the end of the 80's / early 90's when a lot of people got burned like that.I recall from other ads from ~2006 that these could be had for €40-45,000. Even then that seemed ridiculously cheap.
BFleming said:
Top post. Can you give us an insight into your ownership / tenure?
I purchased it in January 2009 from Henry Pearman (Eagle E-Types) who'd recently started an offshoot business selling top quality classics. It had come in to him with another car in p/ex for one of his cars. The price we agreed was £90k but I had to give him two of my cars (both Merc Pagodas) in p/ex. I took the Islero to loads of classic car shows all around the West Country over the next couple of years and entered some concours. I've a huge photo collection of those times.I spent an enormous amount of time on a year-long battle with the DVLA to get its movie number plate "YLR 11G" reinstated (when it came to me it was "MDM 262G"). As part of this process I managed to track down the car's original sale invoice, through a lot of detective work to locate the archives from the early days of Lamborghini sales in the UK, which were with Dell Hopkins, a former employee of the Lamborghini importer, now living in Spain!
I wrote to Valentino Balboni at Lamborghini asking him to verify that this was the actual Islero that had been in the movie with Roger Moore and he very kindly sent me a letter confirming it.
Through Sir Roger Moore's secretary Gareth, I was able to set up a private meeting to reunite the car with Roger on 9th Sept 2009 ("09-09-09") at the Sheraton Park Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, London. I was pretty nervous but he soon put me at ease and was delighted to see the car again for the first time since the filming of "The Man Who Haunted Himself" 40 years previous. He kindly signed the sun visor for me, and a special plaque that I'd had made up for the occasion, and the drivers handbook. I have wonderful memories of that day!
In late 2010 I was very fortunate to be offered the opportunity to purchase, from its private owner of 16 years, the Bahama Yellow Aston Martin DBS that Roger had driven with Tony Curtis in the TV series "The Persuaders!". Unfortunately the only way I could afford to do so was to sell the Islero. I adored the Islero and very definitely did not want to let it go, so it was a situation that was heartbreaking but also incredibly exciting as the Persuaders DBS was such an icon of a car and I loved the TV series. I was able to sell the Islero quickly through RM Auctions at their London Sale in Battersea in October 2010, and took delivery of the Persuaders Aston shortly after, which I then owned for three and a half wonderful years.
I would absolutely love to own the Islero again but sadly I could not afford to buy it now that it's rocketed in value (which I aways suspected it would!). Very tempted to sell the house to buy it but I wouldn't be popular!
Here's a photo from the day the car was reunited with the great Roger Moore - we're smiling because he just cracked a joke!
ducnick said:
BigChiefmuffinAgain said:
Back in the late 90s my dad was looking at buying one of these in France to use as a daily alongside his countach and diablo. He found one unloved at the back of a dealers. It was mechanically sound but not an S. Price was £8000. Those were the days..... He didn't buy it.
In the mid 2000’s I nearly bought a Ferrari 400i for 10k, then nearly bought a maserati ghibli 4.7 for 14k or Espada for 17k then finally bought a Tvr chimera 450 for 17k. Ohh how I regret my stupidity looking back on things. The ghibli or espada could have meant mortgage free living now.
Stunning cars but back when they were cars they were priced so very low because they consumed so much ongoing capital to use as cars. Today they are priced as antiques and expected to be used as such.
VWXL1 said:
I purchased it in January 2009 from Henry Pearman (Eagle E-Types) who'd recently started an offshoot business selling top quality classics. It had come in to him with another car in p/ex for one of his cars. The price we agreed was £90k but I had to give him two of my cars (both Merc Pagodas) in p/ex. I took the Islero to loads of classic car shows all around the West Country over the next couple of years and entered some concours. I've a huge photo collection of those times.
I spent an enormous amount of time on a year-long battle with the DVLA to get its movie number plate "YLR 11G" reinstated (when it came to me it was "MDM 262G"). As part of this process I managed to track down the car's original sale invoice, through a lot of detective work to locate the archives from the early days of Lamborghini sales in the UK, which were with Dell Hopkins, a former employee of the Lamborghini importer, now living in Spain!
I wrote to Valentino Balboni at Lamborghini asking him to verify that this was the actual Islero that had been in the movie with Roger Moore and he very kindly sent me a letter confirming it.
Through Sir Roger Moore's secretary Gareth, I was able to set up a private meeting to reunite the car with Roger on 9th Sept 2009 ("09-09-09") at the Sheraton Park Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, London. I was pretty nervous but he soon put me at ease and was delighted to see the car again for the first time since the filming of "The Man Who Haunted Himself" 40 years previous. He kindly signed the sun visor for me, and a special plaque that I'd had made up for the occasion, and the drivers handbook. I have wonderful memories of that day!
In late 2010 I was very fortunate to be offered the opportunity to purchase, from its private owner of 16 years, the Bahama Yellow Aston Martin DBS that Roger had driven with Tony Curtis in the TV series "The Persuaders!". Unfortunately the only way I could afford to do so was to sell the Islero. I adored the Islero and very definitely did not want to let it go, so it was a situation that was heartbreaking but also incredibly exciting as the Persuaders DBS was such an icon of a car and I loved the TV series. I was able to sell the Islero quickly through RM Auctions at their London Sale in Battersea in October 2010, and took delivery of the Persuaders Aston shortly after, which I then owned for three and a half wonderful years.
I would absolutely love to own the Islero again but sadly I could not afford to buy it now that it's rocketed in value (which I aways suspected it would!). Very tempted to sell the house to buy it but I wouldn't be popular!
Here's a photo from the day the car was reunited with the great Roger Moore - we're smiling because he just cracked a joke!
Great story, well told I spent an enormous amount of time on a year-long battle with the DVLA to get its movie number plate "YLR 11G" reinstated (when it came to me it was "MDM 262G"). As part of this process I managed to track down the car's original sale invoice, through a lot of detective work to locate the archives from the early days of Lamborghini sales in the UK, which were with Dell Hopkins, a former employee of the Lamborghini importer, now living in Spain!
I wrote to Valentino Balboni at Lamborghini asking him to verify that this was the actual Islero that had been in the movie with Roger Moore and he very kindly sent me a letter confirming it.
Through Sir Roger Moore's secretary Gareth, I was able to set up a private meeting to reunite the car with Roger on 9th Sept 2009 ("09-09-09") at the Sheraton Park Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, London. I was pretty nervous but he soon put me at ease and was delighted to see the car again for the first time since the filming of "The Man Who Haunted Himself" 40 years previous. He kindly signed the sun visor for me, and a special plaque that I'd had made up for the occasion, and the drivers handbook. I have wonderful memories of that day!
In late 2010 I was very fortunate to be offered the opportunity to purchase, from its private owner of 16 years, the Bahama Yellow Aston Martin DBS that Roger had driven with Tony Curtis in the TV series "The Persuaders!". Unfortunately the only way I could afford to do so was to sell the Islero. I adored the Islero and very definitely did not want to let it go, so it was a situation that was heartbreaking but also incredibly exciting as the Persuaders DBS was such an icon of a car and I loved the TV series. I was able to sell the Islero quickly through RM Auctions at their London Sale in Battersea in October 2010, and took delivery of the Persuaders Aston shortly after, which I then owned for three and a half wonderful years.
I would absolutely love to own the Islero again but sadly I could not afford to buy it now that it's rocketed in value (which I aways suspected it would!). Very tempted to sell the house to buy it but I wouldn't be popular!
Here's a photo from the day the car was reunited with the great Roger Moore - we're smiling because he just cracked a joke!
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