Lambo Miura Spyder

While Lamborghini teases us with snippets of the all-new model it’ll be taking to the Paris motor show, pictures of a restored icon have been revealed. It’s the Lamborghini Bertone Miura Spyder, a beautiful one-off show car that was crafted forty years ago by Bertone before being revealed to Ferruccio Lamborghini at the 1968 Brussels auto salon. It was based on a standard Miura Berlinetta, but as an open-top was deemed impossible for production due to chassis issues. After a tour of the year’s motor shows, it crawled off into obscurity. It has since changed hands several times, until it was bought by a New York property developer in December 2006. They had it fully (and expensively) restored to its original Brussels format of light metallic blue with off-white leather interior. The car had been finished in green when Lamborghini got its hands on it, but the new owner has happily returned it to Bertone’s intended specification. That rumoured four-door concept has a lot to live up to...