Lamborghinis used as Covid-19 shopping trolleys

[456mgt]

Just to say thanks to the contributors for a very enjoyable read!

[P5BNij]

Some more exotica snapped on my not very distant travels...

Midlands Italian Car Day at Rockingham, August 2014....







Bicester Scramble last Summer...





Currently the oldest Lamborghini in the UK, such a treat to see it in the flesh having seen it in various books and magazines....





















Goodwood Revival last September, my first time and what an eye opener....





Of the many exotics there that weekend I'd have happily taken home this Series 1 Quattroporte, one of only seven RHD built.... probably not everyone's cup of tea as the looks are very subjective, but to me it just oozed glamour from every pore...

[Fessia fancier]

Quite a lot of lovely posts!

Bish, that is a fantastic photo roll.

Rich888 & Ferrucio, I like all these real life anecdotes. Perhaps for Rich 888 it was a meeting of unwilling seller and unwilling buyer (just on that day) - someone is coming to look at the car for sale but I can't be bothered to wash it, then the buyer gets fried in traffic and thinks better of it. Forward wind a few weeks and both parties would have had different sentiments. If it is any consolation I too have similar experiences of cars I should have bought.

P5B you have an enormous enthusiasm for these cars (I was also reviewing the Lambo photos thread in lieu of working), you should choose carefully but definitely take the plunge and get something Italian. Insofar as a material thing can make you happy, it seems to me that this has a very good chance of doing so for you :-)

[rat rod]

I posted this on" My Old Lambo Photo's From The 90's " and thought it might be of interest to you guys just in case you missed it on there . I finally found a You Tube channel that's worth watching,it's called "Curated TV By John Temerian" He's a young man who lives in Florida and buys and sells classic super cars but he has a genuine passion and knowledge for classic Lamborghini's which comes over well in his video's.He's of Italian decent so gets quite excited and talks with his hands .'He's just released a video in period where his dad travels to the Lamborghini factory from Florida ,it's filmed in the early 90's and shows the Diablo in production,great vintage footage with a very young looking Valentino Bobonie, His obvious interest is the Countach judging by the number of video's on them.Well worth a look if you haven't already. Another one i fell over was a father and daughter who run a small super car garage based in Newport California (not Wales). Their names are Michael and Colleen Sheehan and the Channel called "Ferrari Online" Her dad is quite a well know racing driver in American circles.They have a eclectic mix of classics not just Ferrari's,i think she may be Italian as well as she's another one that if you tied her hands behind her back she wouldn't be able to talk. I would put a link to this but i can't as my son says i'm that bad on internet he recommended i buy a google Chrome book which i've been told is idiot proof and doesn't store photo's or do the normal things that a pc does .Even if it did i doubt i would be capable of doing it anyway.

Edited by rat rod on Tuesday 23 June 08:37

[rat rod]

P5BNij said:

rat rod said:

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Your house must be like a Library by now.first thing stop buying books, second thing me and ff are coming round and kidnapping you and your wallet and we are going car shopping. no kids, no mortgage you have no excuse .you need a Italian mistress in your life. Just remember the guy who sold his house and bought a brand new Countach in 1983 and lived in a caravan after,mine you he was probably single if not he probably is now.....

You're right of course rat rod, I need to do something about it and I'm actively working on it - tomorrow it'll be exactly three years since my Dad died very suddenly, I remember waking up the next day thinking to myself ''life's too bloody short.... treat yourself to something you really want before it's too late, something Dad would have loved'', he was just as much of a petrolhead as I am, we had so many plans to do things and go places like the Monaco GP, do a tour of Italy taking in the Lambo, Maser and Ferrari museums etc but sadly none of it came to pass. Now that the mortgage is out of the way I'm determined to get something special, I've been faffing about and prevaricating for far too long, it's only now that I'm anywhere near a position to do anything about it

Meanwhile - bish, here are some photos of your beautiful Ghibli at the NEC back in November 2012..... the Maserati Club stand was the highlight of the show for me, I kept going back to look at it several times throughout the whole weekend, it really was a feast for the eyes....

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Just do it in your own time and when in doubt leave it out. The older Italian cars were not known for their build quality and could turn your dream into a nightmare.

[rat rod]

Ferruccio said:

rat rod said:

170mph and it's not run in yet , that must have been a sight and sound .Does he always drive at those speeds ,you must tell me his secret for not getting caught . Is Piet Pulford the builder of the Miura Jotta,wow what a work of art. All great people with a passion.

As you know, it was so different in those days. I don’t think Vic had any special strategy.

Yup - Piet has long been addicted to Miuras.
He was a like a drug dealer offering you your first hit for free to get you addicted.
He threw me the keys to a Miura once.

The first time I drove a Lambo, a Jalpa with a wing, with two rear view mirrors, one to look over the wing and one under, when I managed to work it out I saw flashing blue lights.
The policeman asked me how fast I was going.
I said that I was just on a test drive and that I had no idea.
We had a nice chat.
He told me that I was doing 56mph in a 40mph and sent me on my way......

I’ve still got that car.

Ferruccio i love your terminology regarding Piet was like a drug dealer offering your first fee hit. I can only imagine what it must be like to drive a Miura ,you would have to have "Days like these" on the 8 track as well, Congratulations ,unlike most of us you've managed to keep all your Lamborghini's,that couldn't be easy.

[browngt3]

Links to the channels mentioned by ratrod above

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CEhEWmzehgkP2Py...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVP_2gSVHBv-rqhv...

Been enjoying the Ferraris online channel lately. Colleen adds an interesting visual dimension too

[Ferruccio]

rat rod said:

Ferruccio i love your terminology regarding Piet was like a drug dealer offering your first fee hit. I can only imagine what it must be like to drive a Miura ,you would have to have "Days like these" on the 8 track as well, Congratulations ,unlike most of us you've managed to keep all your Lamborghini's,that couldn't be easy.

Why would you ever sell one!?

Not selling is easy. Not buying is harder.

I still do regret not buying a white Miura S that I saw in a warehouse in Uxbridge for £40k.
It wasn’t quite working but nearly. Must have been early 90s.

And I nearly bought an LM002 last year. But everyone told me it’d be a money pit.
And it was a very strange thing to drive. It was also LHD, which I’ve never been comfy with in the U.K. But in many ways, it is the ultimate, truest Lamborghini. So ahead of its time. Cool. Mad.

[TonyAM66]

….. Apologies in advance for perhaps again taking this slightly of track … .but this time inspired by Ferruccio’s memory of Vic Sawyer overtaking him at 170MPH in a blue Diablo…..

So, back in July 1992 I was driving back late at night (c.02:00 ish) to Oxfordshire from Suffolk … I was in my first company BMW a 318 SE (I think the ‘Special Equipment extended to electric windows!) …. I was on the M-25 and had just come through the Holmesdale Tunnel under the A10 heading in the in the direction of Heathrow ….. Just after the tunnel heading ‘anti-clockwise’ there is a section that dips and weaves a little (by motorway standards) and becomes a concreate surface …… that section, at the time, was lit by motorway lights that lit the motorway with a slightly atmospheric yellow hue …

I must have been doing c80 MPH …. It was late, I was tired ……and it was only a 318 SE !..... I was in the left-hand lane with nothing else on that stretch of the M-25 at that moment .. .when I noticed two set of headlights in my rear-view mirror bearing down on me at an almost unbelievable rate of knots ……

Before I knew it, a dark blue Lamborghini Diablo with Dark Grey Porsche 930 …. went past me at what must have been 170 MPH+ ….. they were so close it was almost as if the Porsche was trying to get a ‘slip-steam’ tow from the Diablo….. The noise was immense, and I can remember several things including the ‘Thud’ of the air hitting my car as the Diablo and the Porsche punched their way through it …. and then the ‘vortex’ of air actually rocking my car….

As the two cars hit the concrete section there was also an ‘spit’ of flame from the Porsche exhaust and the tyre rumble on the concrete surface…added to the aural overload ….

About a week later I ordered a copy of the Duke Marketing Lamborghini Diablo Documentary on VHS …… and I still have that now…. sadly, no VHS Player to watch it from ….. but it is online ……

The M-25 ‘experience’ .. the Mike Pullen Carrera Sports Goodwood Track Days and the Duke Marketing VHS Tape .. .all inspired me towards Diablo ownership ….

Can you imagine doing 170 MPH + on a British Road today!?!? ….. perhaps don’t qualify that question with a response …. anyone could be reading this!

[cgt2]

browngt3 said:

Links to the channels mentioned by ratrod above

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CEhEWmzehgkP2Py...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVP_2gSVHBv-rqhv...

Been enjoying the Ferraris online channel lately. Colleen adds an interesting visual dimension too

Thank you for these.

[P5BNij]

browngt3 said:

Links to the channels mentioned by ratrod above

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CEhEWmzehgkP2Py...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVP_2gSVHBv-rqhv...

Been enjoying the Ferraris online channel lately. Colleen adds an interesting visual dimension too

Thanks for posting those, enjoyed watching them during a break at work. For some rather tasty period footage of various Lambos in feature films with added cheese, take your pick from this lot.... life was very different in the '60s, '70s and '80s....

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2HdjvaPp-mtx2jvQ...

Some are very brief and some much longer but it's worth taking the time to look at them all

Edited by P5BNij on Tuesday 23 June 20:32

Bonus Ghibli footage from the 1969 Alain Delon film 'La Piscine'....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7tydJa2gc

Edited by P5BNij on Tuesday 23 June 20:37

[rat rod]

browngt3 said:

Links to the channels mentioned by ratrod above

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CEhEWmzehgkP2Py...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVP_2gSVHBv-rqhv...

Been enjoying the Ferraris online channel lately. Colleen adds an interesting visual dimension too

Thanks browngt3,must get myself out of the stoneage one day, Both great channels ,fell over them while surfing though the thousands of car related channels one night,not the usual loud American you tubers, Don't you think that John Temerian's dad looks like something out of the Sopranos. Apart from the beautiful diverse range of cars on "Ferrari Online" Colleen does add some glamour to their channel and unless she's reading the spec and history of the cars from a script which it doesn't look like she's also very knowledgeable and definitley more pleasing to the eye than Shmee .

[rat rod]

Ferruccio said:

rat rod said:

Ferruccio i love your terminology regarding Piet was like a drug dealer offering your first fee hit. I can only imagine what it must be like to drive a Miura ,you would have to have "Days like these" on the 8 track as well, Congratulations ,unlike most of us you've managed to keep all your Lamborghini's,that couldn't be easy.

Why would you ever sell one!?

Not selling is easy. Not buying is harder.

I still do regret not buying a white Miura S that I saw in a warehouse in Uxbridge for £40k.
It wasn’t quite working but nearly. Must have been early 90s.

And I nearly bought an LM002 last year. But everyone told me it’d be a money pit.
And it was a very strange thing to drive. It was also LHD, which I’ve never been comfy with in the U.K. But in many ways, it is the ultimate, i thruest Lamborghini. So ahead of its time. Cool. Mad.

Ye i suppose the LM002 was a more sophisticated form of Hummer rather than Land Rover or am i being unkind to Lamborghini.

[rat rod]

P5BNij said:

Thanks for posting those, enjoyed watching them during a break at work. For some rather tasty period footage of various Lambos in feature films with added cheese, take your pick from this lot.... life was very different in the '60s, '70s and '80s....

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2HdjvaPp-mtx2jvQ...

Some are very brief and some much longer but it's worth taking the time to look at them all

Edited by P5BNij on Tuesday 23 June 20:32

Bonus Ghibli footage from the 1969 Alain Delon film 'La Piscine'....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7tydJa2gc

Edited by P5BNij on Tuesday 23 June 20:37

Thanks for posting these channels,just got to find time to watch them.all I suppose that's the only good thing about winter,you spend more time indoors, don't get in much before 9 pm most nights with a mountain of things to do, hence my early am posts.

[cgt2]

rat rod said:

Thanks browngt3,must get myself out of the stoneage one day, Both great channels ,fell over them while surfing though the thousands of car related channels one night,not the usual loud American you tubers, Don't you think that John Temerian's dad looks like something out of the Sopranos. Apart from the beautiful diverse range of cars on "Ferrari Online" Colleen does add some glamour to their channel and unless she's reading the spec and history of the cars from a script which it doesn't look like she's also very knowledgeable and definitley more pleasing to the eye than Shmee .

What a brilliant post!!!

[rat rod]

cgt2 said:

rat rod said:

Thanks browngt3,must get myself out of the stoneage one day, Both great channels ,fell over them while surfing though the thousands of car related channels one night,not the usual loud American you tubers, Don't you think that John Temerian's dad looks like something out of the Sopranos. Apart from the beautiful diverse range of cars on "Ferrari Online" Colleen does add some glamour to their channel and unless she's reading the spec and history of the cars from a script which it doesn't look like she's also very knowledgeable and definitley more pleasing to the eye than Shmee .

What a brilliant post!!!

Thanks cgt2

[sisu]

Andy-IM said:

On the theme of 'Classics' used as Covid-19 shopping trolleys within the "Classics and Yesterday's Heros" section:

ELB420J off for a bit of much needed exercise

Andy I am tempted by the Jamara. I was after a Miura for quite a while and got the 1.2 to buy one and get it sorted. Flew to Sweden to look at it. But found that I can't fit in one very easily. I am 6'3" and although I can scouch down, knees go kart style. My head was on the roof, looking thru the sun visor. I didn't want it as art either.
So I looked at Espada's but there were alot that were on sale that hadn't been driven regularly and of the two I test drove they smoked, others seemed to be shady in terms of electrical gremlins or other things, one had a shonky wheel bearing and cooked brake when the dealer took it out for a demo.
I bought a 2 year old, 4000km used 2017 V12 Ferrari GT4 Lusso which is the daily shuttle as other than fuel/tires it has 88,000km on it now.
After having this as a daily espresso to take the kids to school in I would also like to get a LHD Jamara at some point. Are there any things you would look for or advise someone getting one?

[cgt2]

Ian must be reading...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3gtnyLcwc

[Ferruccio]

rat rod said:

Ye i suppose the LM002 was a more sophisticated form of Hummer rather than Land Rover or am i being unkind to Lamborghini.

Hummer and the LM002 both had a military nascence.

[anonymous-user]

sisu said:

Andy-IM said:

On the theme of 'Classics' used as Covid-19 shopping trolleys within the "Classics and Yesterday's Heros" section:

ELB420J off for a bit of much needed exercise

Andy I am tempted by the Jamara. I was after a Miura for quite a while and got the 1.2 to buy one and get it sorted. Flew to Sweden to look at it. But found that I can't fit in one very easily. I am 6'3" and although I can scouch down, knees go kart style. My head was on the roof, looking thru the sun visor. I didn't want it as art either.
So I looked at Espada's but there were alot that were on sale that hadn't been driven regularly and of the two I test drove they smoked, others seemed to be shady in terms of electrical gremlins or other things, one had a shonky wheel bearing and cooked brake when the dealer took it out for a demo.
I bought a 2 year old, 4000km used 2017 V12 Ferrari GT4 Lusso which is the daily shuttle as other than fuel/tires it has 88,000km on it now.
After having this as a daily espresso to take the kids to school in I would also like to get a LHD Jamara at some point. Are there any things you would look for or advise someone getting one?

The Jarama is probably one of the few Lamborghini's you would be comfortable in at 6'3". They are all of course around 50 years old now so just about anything CAN go wrong, though they have very few inherent weak spots if well looked after.

This video has just been released by Ian Tyrrell and is worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=7Fqr2nm...

If seriously interested I can show you around mine once all this stuff is over just to give you an idea of things - mine is no longer for sale though. Of course ergonomics will be slightly different on a LHD one anyway.

Regards Andy