Lamborghini Muira SVR

 

Back in 1968 a green Lamborghini Miura chassis number 3781 left the factory doors with engine 2511 heading to Germany, to Heinz E. Steber who enjoyed the car for several years until he got inspired by the track prepared Miura Jota … so in 1975 he convinced Hubert Hahne to have the factory rebuild his Miura into the impressive Miura SVR we know today.

It took the factory until April 1976 to complete the transformation from Miura into Miura SVR … the bodywork was heavily modified and widened to get the Jota looks, to make sure the fenders were nicely filled a set of massive BBS wheels with central locks were mounted, at the rear a pair of Pirelli P7R got installed at 345/35ZR15 … the same size to be used on the Countach S models.

To make sure these wide tires would remain as flat as possible on the street a true race suspension using Koni dampers got fitted together with Girling disk brakes usually found on the Porsche 917 to make sure this Raging Bull could stop even faster than she could accelerate.

And this Miura SVR was fast, a lot faster than original thanks to a dry sump conversion, modified cams and Weber carburetors with open funnels, protected by a mesh to avoid dirt getting into the engine, with a 3920cc displacement and an ‘open’ exhaust system this engine would produce enough power to propel this 1,330 kg Miura to speeds way beyond the limits on the open road.

To keep the Miura SVR stable at high speeds the typical chin spoiler was added to the front while a Countach inspired wing was mounted on the roof of this red beauty … much like the wing found on the first Walter Wolf Countach, the white one with a similar roof wing.

Inside the original brown seats were replaced with a pair of black Recaro racing seats and four-point racing harness seat belts to keep the driver strapped in during his high speed stints while he could listen to a Blaupunkt audio system … or even better, that V12 engine just behind his back.

Reported on Lambocars, Bingo Sports had the one of one SVR for sale back in 2016, POA, some 40 years after it was sold to a Japanese collectors for $550,000.