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1973 MIURA SVJ
Chassis #5100
Engine #30749
Prod. #750
31 Aug 1972
#5100: The only SVJ to have period dry sump (based on the real Jota mechanicals).
With the following original specifications:
- Rivet placement
- Aluminum doors
- Hexagonal central lock wheels (all the other SVJs are fitted with the classic 3 eared knock off wheel nuts) as on 4860
- Single Jota wiper (as with #4934 and 4990)
- Mercedes stalk
- Different suspension geometry giving lower ride height and roll centre
- Oil radiator on the chassis's front part
- Limited slip differential (not the case on all the SVJs)
- And of course the dry sump system.
#5100 was originally destined for the official German importer, Hubert Hahne. However, the car actually went to first owner, Paris based Ambassador Harry Lansberg , as compensation for his dry sump Miura SV #4956 which was accidentally destroyed by a factory tester while being serviced at the works. Lansberg, furious, was thus given SVJ #5100 still awaiting livery and in the same colour schemes as #4956 (Lucio Del Bosco). On the request of Lansberg himself, dry sump system of the destroyed #4956 was installed into #5100 prior to leaving the factory. In order to avoid paying taxes twice, Lansberg went back to France using papers of #4956. But Lansberg returned #5100 to the Sant 'Agata works very soon after delivery as he did not like the "wild" SVJ bodywork and the loud straight through exhaust system. The car was thus returned to him by the factory with standard SV bodywork/exhaust.
Lansberg did precisely 3,907 kms with #5100 before selling it on May 1979 to second and present owner Fabrice Auxietre, also living in Paris.
Auxietre had #5100 returned to original specifications (bodywork/exhaust) by Parisian coachbuilder LeCoq (known for his fabulous restorations of Delahayes, Bugattis, Ferraris etc...).
Engine fully overhauled by the factory (2004):
- Lightened piston gudgeon-pins
- Matched gudgeon pins with each piston to the gramme
- Lightweight valves
- High lift camshafts
- Polished and matched connecting rods to the gramme.
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