Miura Sport 1977

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Miura Automóveis was a Brazilian company founded in 1976 and defunct in 1992.

Their first car was a low coupe, relatively long and with aggressive lines built on the same platform of the Volkswagen 1600 -- a very limited base for an aspiring sports car but largely used during the 60's and 70's.

At a time of rounded shapes, its fiberglass body resorted to a straight style, clearly inspired by the Italian Lamborghini Urraco. Incidentally, the name - a race bullring, the fiercest - was also the same in another Lamborghini.

The headlights were hidden by retractable covers, coming down by the action of a vacuum device, driven by an electronic valve when the trigger button in the panel. Internally, the Miura Sport had a luxurious finish and innovations in the details. The three-spoke steering wheel was adjustable in height via electric control and also the pedals could be adjusted away from the bank, which today is still rare. The two seats were leather and the full panel included tachometer up to 7,000 rpm (although the maximum engine speed was only 4,600 rpm), voltmeter and oil pressure gauge. Air conditioning, electrically controlled windows and radio / cassette player were optional.

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......The rear fenders (I mean, bumpers) on the yellow one and the brown are different - how come? Are they different models? Or this just being the case of garden-shed specials where there are inconsistences throughout?
 
JKgo
......The rear fenders (I mean, bumpers) on the yellow one and the brown are different - how come? Are they different models? Or this just being the case of garden-shed specials where there are inconsistences throughout?
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I wasn't able to find a good picture of the rear of the 1977 model so I went with that one.

This car's appearance changed a lot throughout the years (to worse),
but the engine was always the same, unfortunately. :grumpy:
 
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I wasn't able to find a good picture of the rear of the 1977 model so I went with that one.

This car's appearance changed a lot throughout the years (to worse),
but the engine was always the same, unfortunately. :grumpy:
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...........Explains a lot why they went under...:D
 
Rare cars like these are always hard to find info on. "specialists" are everywhere on the internet :lol:

Even my car is hard to find correct info on, and it's a Toyota! Most websites don't even list it, and of the ones that do, you won't find the same info on two, they all seem to differ in one way or another. Even searching for insurance quotes when I bought it, none of the insurance providers in Australia even recognised it's existence lol!
 
Mike_grpA
Rare cars like these are always hard to find info on. "specialists" are everywhere on the internet :lol:

Even my car is hard to find correct info on, and it's a Toyota! Most websites don't even list it, and of the ones that do, you won't find the same info on two, they all seem to differ in one way or another. Even searching for insurance quotes when I bought it, none of the insurance providers in Australia even recognised it's existence lol!
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........Now you got my interest piqued - whatcha driving?
 
JKgo
........Now you got my interest piqued - whatcha driving?
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ST185R Celica GT-Four Grp A Rallye. Otherwise known as GT-Four RC (Japan), or Turbo 4WD Carlos Sainz Limited Edition (UK and Europe).

Of the 5000 units sold worldwide for group a homologation purposes, only 150 were allocated to Australia, and named Grp A Rallye. I own #39. The Aus model makes the Japanese RC model look like a common mass production car by comparison lol.

So much conflicting info about these cars exists on the net. It's a pain in the proverbial to find accurate info. Even harder to find certain spare parts.

I got mine at the perfect time, as I paid only $4,500 almost a year ago, from an old bloke who'd had it most of it's life, with full service history and a trailer load of spares etc. etc. and now they are already worth $20,000+. Considering the rarity, and the fact that they are statistically the most successful Japanese rally car ever, and we all know motorsport pedigree contributes to desirability, I'll never lose money on it. I don't know if I would ever be able to part with it though lol, I love it to bits :D
 
JKgo
@Mike_grpA Ohh, that's why your profile name's grpA. Makes perfect sense. Well hey maybe you coulda give PDI a ring and let 'em laser scan your car.....:D
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Well I've suggested a premium st185 RC, and I certainly wouldn't mind they do the Aussie Grp A Rallye instead, but I'm sure they'd find it easier to track down one of the 3000 odd RCs in Japan, than come down to scan my car lol

Here's my baby:
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I named it Didi, after Didier Auriol, one of three drivers to win WRC driver's titles in the 185 group a, along with Carlos Sainz (obviously) and my all time favourite rally driver, Juha Kankkunen.

...I'll give the OP a like because I feel bad for hijacking the thread a little lol.
 
Funny times of a market closed for imports. Imagine that when I was a kid my dreamcar was one of those.
Not that it has chagend a lot, Brazil still has one of the most protected markets from global trade, but since 1991 we are not restricted to sports cars with VW beetle's - or Samba bus, for that matter - powertrains.
Not that they are necessarily bad - that's for another topic - but it's just sad to see how uncompetitive the domestic product was compared to the imports (although heavily taxed).
It couldn't hold on for more than one year...
 

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