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The ex-Frank Sinatra 36,844 miles from new 1970 LAMBORGHINI MIURA P400S COACHWORK BY BERTONE Chassis No. 4407 Engine No. 30447 Arancio Metallico with Pelle Cinghiale (Wild Boar) leather interior Engine: V-12, mid-transverse mounted dohc, 4 Weber 40IDL 3L triple choke carburetors, 3,929cc., 370bhp at 7,700rpm; Gearbox: five-speed within engine unit; Suspension: independent front and rear double transverse wishbones with coil springs; Brakes: front and rear ventilated discs. Left hand drive. Lamborghini Miura - the name, taken from the famous breed of fighting bull, is one of the most evocative of those given to all roadgoing super cars. The new Miura was the absolute sensation of the 1966 Geneva Salon when Ferruccio Lamborghini chose to unveil his sports GT for the street, fitted with a transversely mounted V-12 engine capable of 170 mph! Never one to miss a promotional opportunity, he had his chief development engineer Bob Wallace drive the prototype Miura to Monte Carlo over the Grand Prix weekend. Strategically positioned in front of the Casino, crowds quickly gathered around what many now consider to be the most beautiful sports car ever built. Both beautiful and fast, well heeled clients waited a year or more for the Sant 'Agata Bolognese factory to complete their often personalized Miuras, in many cases taking delivery at the factory itself. The list included the likes of 60s Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Briggs Cunningham, the Shah of Iran, Prince Faisal and Rod Stewart among other lucky owners. It is clear that Ferruccio Lamborghini adored his Miura. Interviewed by the French magazine Automobiles Classiques for its Spring/Summer 1984 issue, he quite simply stated: When people ask me nowadays to describe my ideal sports car, I still answer with one word; MIURA... When we launched the Miura, our plan was for (just) 50 cars... I know sports enthusiasts all over the world who would have paid a king's ransom for a racing version... for the rest of my life I'll feel happy when I look at my Miura... I say that nobody has built anything better since. It was the first car of our wildest dreams, a car for absolute fanatics. We refused to make a single technical compromise in the Miura. Mounting the engine transversely in the center was a daring step in itself, one that no one had ever dared to try (for the street in 1966). As for its appearance, you can judge for yourself nineteen years later... when I miss the sound and fury, I take refuge in my garage and turn the key in the ignition of my Miura. 474 examples of the Miura's original P400 were thought to have been built before the Miura P400 S was introduced to the public at the 1968 Turin Show. The new model had been chosen by Autocar magazine for a comprehensive road test and their verdict was quite simple: fastest car yet tested. On a quiet and early Sunday morning on the Pisa-Florence autostrada the testers in the P400S achieved a mean maximum speed of 172mph and reached 140mph in less than 30 seconds! The road testers were moved to say the exhaust dominates every other noise. Blast up mountains in 1st or 2nd with the windows down and you hear the bark again, changing to a curiously pleasant musical whine that descends with the revs on over-run, reminiscent of the blower on an ERA. Frank Sinatra - the iconic and legendary singer and actor with a lifestyle to match was one of the world's greatest performers of all time. Nine Grammy Awards and two Academy Awards, sixty films and thousands of recordings, Rat Pack member together with Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop. The Miura on offer, chassis 4407, was given production order 475 by the Lamborghini factory, the register simply stating 'Sinatra' against the build listing as the first accepting owner, whereas more usually the listing would have the first supplying dealer name. Former factory Sales Manager, Signore Ubaldo Sgarzi, recalls Sinatra's unannounced