Georgie, quit ruining my life. Okay, the Guara thing was a late night guess (ill-advised) but the Miura mess you've made may require that you drive a 3 cylinder Metro around for the next several weeks...
From Lamborghini Miura pages at www.cartype.com/page.cfm?id=1031&alph=ALLwebsite...
"Amazingly, the Miura's elegant bodywork was the very first automotive project of its young designer, Marcello Gandini. The Bertone styling house was given the job of designing the bodywork to fit the P400 chassis in 1965, but after only the most preliminary work had been done on the project chief designer Giorgietto Giugiaro resigned to go and work for rival company Ghia. He was replaced by Gandini who, prior to coming to Bertone, had been an upmarket interior decorator specialising in night clubs."
From www.lambocars.com we have this..."The complete design of the body was executed by Marcello Gandini in record time, and on the March 1966 Geneva Show it was completed and on display, it looked even better than in Turin, the car was very aggressively styled, and an appropriate name was chosen for it, the Miura, a name taken from the ferocious Spanish fighting bulls."
An independent article went on to say, "Even years later, some losers attribute the Miura's design to Giugaro, which is so wrong it makes me want to blow spaghetti out of my nose."
I was unable to find the source of the above, but it sounds authoritative.
quote:DeTomaso massaged the coach to fit a chassis he had left over from a Shelby project, the P70 chassis. Pete Brock designed the P70 coach, Fantuzzi built the coach, but I don't think history firmly records who designed the P70 chassis.
This VERY car is for sale right now!! You could be the proud owner of the most infamous car in DeTomaso history. If you buy it, you have to let me see it in person though. As like a finder fee thingie.