After five decades, Lamborghini has screened and certified the original Miura P400 from "The Italian Job"

What are Lamborghini's chances of finding the original Miura P400 that played in the original movie "The Italian Job" exactly fifty years after the release of the film?

Looks like it's pretty thin, and yet that's exactly what happened since Lamborghini Polo Storico just announced that it had certified the # 3586 chassis as the original car used in the Paramount Pictures, released in June 1969.

This is a remarkable event in the world of classic cars since the Miura P400 orange with white / black leather interior is the most sought after Miura of recent decades. For those of you who have not seen the movie, "Arancio Miura" appears at the beginning of the film while the actor Rossano Brazzi leads him to the Grand St Bernard pass.

The original car was "destroyed" only in the plot of the film, not in real life

The car is destroyed in the film but the vehicle itself was not destroyed – no one would have done that to a Miura, one of the most exotic of the time. In reality, Paramount used an identical Miura already crushed to turn the scenes showing the consequences of the crash.

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So what happened to the original car? He disappeared in the air, apparently. Only a few years after the release of the film, when collectors learned that the car used for filming was not the one destroyed in the accident on screen, a hunt began to find the opening scene, Miura .

Enthusiasts and collectors around the world have been pursuing the search for the orange Miura P400 for five decades without success. Some collectors claimed to have the original vehicle, but the mystery was finally resolved when the current owner of the car decided to have it certified by Lamborghini Polo Storico.

Owner Fritz Kaiser has sent the "Arancio Miura" to Lamborghini for certification.

"The Kaiser Collection of Vaduz" in Liechtenstein brought the orange Miura to Agata Bolognese from Sant Agata Bolognese, where Lamborghini's historic specialized service began to examine the car and compare it to the documentation of the company's archives.

Lamborghini Polo Storico also corroborated the information with testimonials from enthusiasts and former employees, such as Enzo Moruzzi, the man who delivered the car to the film set and drove it in all plans as a doubled. Thus, Lamborghini was able to find the missing evidence and conclude that the Miura P400 chassis # 3586 was exactly the one used in "The Italian Job".

"There was a Miura P400 almost ready on the production line, right colored, left-hand drive and white leather interior. It was aesthetically identical to the damaged one and we decided to use it for the film, "Moruzzi remembers.

At the end of the shoot, he brought the orange Miura P400 back to the factory and the car was then delivered to his first owner, an Italian from Rome. The legendary Lambo later had several Italian and international owners. In 2018, it was bought by the current owner Fritz Kaiser, renowned collector of Liechtenstein. He must be a happier man now, because his Lamborghini-certified chassis No. 3586 as an original movie car had to work wonders for the market value of the car.