LAMBORHINI MUIRA SV RHD
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PushedDover said:
Roger Collins said:
ooooph. that is a stunner.
JeremyH5 said:
PushedDover said:
Another interesting tale behind this photograph no doubt, do tell us why you were inspired to change the leather interior from white to black and paint the outer sills black instead of silver. Good morning Roger, just to say a fabulous thread and very much enjoying your stories and pictures. It's very obvious to me that you are getting a lot of comfort and enjoyment from sharing with the PH forum following your loss last year. It's genuinely great to see how this little corner of 'the internet' is so welcoming, interested, cheeky and supportive for your posts. It brings a little faith in humanity, which so often seems to be lacking in current times.
I'm sure there's a lot of us would love to have lived in your shoes and enjoy reading about it. Keep it up old boy.
I'm sure there's a lot of us would love to have lived in your shoes and enjoy reading about it. Keep it up old boy.
Roger Collins said:
Morning new friends. Sorry not my Miura today but still Lamborghinis as well as my first cars. Photos are of yours truly just two days after my 18th birthday outside RAF married quarters Lysander Road part of RAF Northolt
with my lovely newly purchased red fastback Mustang. The other two show my first Espadas after our young family arrived and as two seats were not an option sadly my Miura had to go. My son Nicky stands alongside my first Espada at my wife's cabin in Nissedal Telemark Norway, The other is me in my second Espada on Brighton sea front Happy days
The contrast between your fabulous Espada and the other cars parked up behind it is very striking, it's easy to forget just how exotic Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Maseratis were in those far off days. Please keep the photos and memories coming Roger with my lovely newly purchased red fastback Mustang. The other two show my first Espadas after our young family arrived and as two seats were not an option sadly my Miura had to go. My son Nicky stands alongside my first Espada at my wife's cabin in Nissedal Telemark Norway, The other is me in my second Espada on Brighton sea front Happy days
I did a bit of digging and found the Urraco with your 'UHO 1' number plate, I knew I had it somewhere, it was a RHD P250S that was featured in Autocar magazine dated 14th September 1974...
I take it you had it on one or more of your Espadas?
Roger Collins said:
Hello and Rumdoodle asked why 'Macedonia' if I may explain. In the 1960s I was a regular visitor to Beirut Lebanon which was charming, peaceful and correctly titled the 'Paris of the Middle East' On my third trip I befriended Fady el Khoury, the son of the Christian Lebanese President and they owned the fabulous seafront St George Hotel We became closely connected and I learnt a lot of the country's history being occupied by the Phoenician tribes. When I returned to the UK my business partner and I started a company called Phoenician Securities Ltd. After a couple of years we amicably split the business and he kept the company and name.. So I decided I would like another tribe name close to Lebanon and just north were the Macedonians. As my youngest son has just been born and his name was Alexander and Alexander the Great was the leader of Macedonia I called my company Macedonian Securities. As a follow on in 1972 I formed the airline as a subsidiary and hence MACEDONIAN AVIATION so trust that explains 
That's as good a reason as any for a name! It's tragic the mess that Lebanon is in these days. The hyperinflation is crazy. This is a bill for dinner for three people in late 2021
- that's a US dollar figure at the end! I had a job getting that past the finance manager. It's lucky they didn't charge me for the ice cream. Based, of course, on the official exchange rate, which was about 1500 to the dollar, while the actual rate was more like 20,000. A little over a year later, it's 120,000.
Thansk for sharing all this history Roger - a fascinating read and recollections!
Whiel the Miura and Espada are high on my list, the NSX in the last few photos is one of my longer term targets, and it must have been otherworldy at the time you had it.
Please keep adding and sharing - we're all living vicariously through this thread!
Whiel the Miura and Espada are high on my list, the NSX in the last few photos is one of my longer term targets, and it must have been otherworldy at the time you had it.
Please keep adding and sharing - we're all living vicariously through this thread!
Roger Collins said:
Aircall was first in my Ferrari 365 and then the Jensen Interceptor,
Unless I'm mistaken you havent mentioned Interceptors Roger, the thread has gone up a notch yet again! Was that one above yours or a promo shot for the equiment? Any more pictures? Some of my earliest short-trousered memories are of droolinng over Interceptors that seemed gargantuan to an 8 year old me.It must have been a jolly long lunch that Sunday, Roger. The moon landings were televised in the UK at 21:17 BST on Sunday 20th July 1969, I recall it being dark and watching in my pyjamas then going to bed very late.
And what a coincidence to see your Motorola mobile phone story on the same day as the BBC published this:
Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65112048
Loving your tales, keep up the good work!
And what a coincidence to see your Motorola mobile phone story on the same day as the BBC published this:
Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65112048
Loving your tales, keep up the good work!
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