Lamborghini Polo Storico Restores the One-Off, Race-Inspired Miura SVR

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Lamborghini Polo Storico Restores the One-Off, Race-Inspired Miura SVR

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on June 25th, 2018 in the Automotive News category.

 

[MisterWaffles]

You might not agree, but I think that’s one ugly Miura.

 

[Tornado]

Looks like it was thrown together by whoever was in charge of adapting Countaches for the US market before Chrysler bought Lamborghini.

 

[e_mumu]

So that ugly wing it had in The Crew 1 was actually historically acurate? Who'd have thought...

 

[ALB123]

Personally, I think the Lamborghini Miura is the sexiest car to grace the roads. THAT monstrosity?!?! DISGRAZIA!!!

 

[McLaren]

Surprised the press release got the name wrong, but the man's name is Heinz Steber. If you can read German, he has a full article that talks about the car.
https://www.heinzsteber.com/jota-svr

 

[GTboyz]

Wait, isn't this supposed to be called Jota?

 

[McLaren]

Wait, isn't this supposed to be called Jota?

The Jota was a different car built by Bob Wallace that was wrecked immediately by the new owner. The closest thing, image-wise, to Bob Wallace's car is chassis #3033 which became a replica Bob highly complimented the craftsmanship on.

However, many believe the SVR is the closest thing to what Bob wanted to do with the Miura.

 

[Nuschel01]

Surprised the press release got the name wrong, but the man's name is Heinz Steber. If you can read German, he has a full article that talks about the car.
https://www.heinzsteber.com/jota-svr

Interesting read, thanks for the link 👍

 

[kikie]

What a beautiful car.

The Miura is probably one of the most beautiful cars every made but this on-off race inspired Miura SRV is also gorgious except for that ugly black wing.

 

[Famine]

Wait, isn't this supposed to be called Jota?

That's discussed in the article. Short version: the Jota (which was destroyed) was the inspiration for the SVR, and the SVR was built three years later.

Surprised the press release got the name wrong, but the man's name is Heinz Steber. If you can read German, he has a full article that talks about the car.
https://www.heinzsteber.com/jota-svr

This bothered me when I was researching the SVR (and you'll notice a lot more detail in our article than the copy-pasted versions you'll find elsewhere!). In fact the name of the original owner behind the conversion from the S to the SVR seemed all over the place, so in the end I went with the name in the press release.

After changing hands eight times in Italy, the vehicle was bought in 1974 by German Heinz Straber, who took it back to Sant’Agata in order to have it transformed in an SVR - a job that required 18 months of work.

One name that popped up a lot more than others was Hubert Hahne and... reading that site I'm glad I didn't go with that

I'll correct it now though, cheers.

 

[GTboyz]

I was confused because Tomica made a Jota and it's the car pictured on the Article... Right down to the roof wing.

 

[Oyashiro-sama]

bella macchina