Lamborghini Espada SII 1970

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This car made an instant impression on me from when I first saw one in the late sixties being badly driven, bumped over a kerb, by a loon panted, silk shirted idiot in London's Carnaby Street - it taught me that having lots of money and a fabulous car doesn't necessarily make you a great driver (or even intelligent)!

The blue car in the OP is a Series 3 model from 1972 or later. The series 1 and 2 cars had the same wheels as the Miura - refer to the picture of the silver car. The series 1 had rather strange octagonal instrument surrounds. The series 2 is my favourite as this had a redesigned interior with round instrument surrounds. It used to be possible to pick up these cars for a song - they were very expensive to maintain and the exhausts used to rot badly and were particularly expensive. I saw a very nice white one recently at a petrol station - the owner had removed the front passenger seat and got the car to pay its way by using it as a wedding car! He told me that exhausts are not a problem on these cars any longer as their are plenty of specialists who can make one off systems to match the originals.

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Acceleration on these cars was not particularly fast even by the standards of the day - there was a dogleg change to complete between 1st and 2nd before 60mph so 0-60 took 7.7 seconds - about 2 seconds slower than an Aston Martin from the same period.
 
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