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1972 Lamborghini Jarama 400GT

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1972 Lamborghini Jarama 400GT - Auction - San Diego, CA - Precious Metals is Proud to present this very rare and unique 1972 dual sunroof Lamborghini Jarama. This unique vehicle represents part of an important collection of vintage Lamborghinis that we have, preserved, restored, and maintained since 2002. Our featured 1972 Lamborghini Jarama was invited, as a centerpiece display of the 2012 Concorso Italiano, under the direct guidance and invite of Tom McDowell and Lilli Bertone. As the only Jarama in attendance, this beautiful, grand tourer was an integral part of the center piece display of Concorso Italiano.

The beautiful and rare Lamborghini Jarama featured on this page is chassis number 10344, and is an especially intriguing example. #10344 is designated as a Lamborghini Jarama GT which denotes this example as one of the 177 non S cars. This car features the front fender vents, which some have incorrectly attributed as distinct to the Lamborghini Jarama S models, but what is even more interesting is that this non "S" example has the rare option of twin sunroofs.

The vehicle was recently shown at the Pasadena Arts Center College of Design in October of 2014. The vehicle is in nice well preserved condition. The interior is fresh and looks like new. The vehicle is equipped with its original and powerful P400 V12 engine Coupled to a 5 speed manual transmission.

A limited-production model that Ferruccio Lamborghini regarded as his personal favorite, the Jarama 400 GT combines the marque’s very best qualities – exotic Bertone styling; a magnificent six-carb, four-cam V-12; and sublime features – in one highly sophisticated GT package and the rarest of the 177 built this Dual Sunroof example is 1 of 11.

we have seen a spike in Bertone design Lamborghini in recent months several of which have crossed auction blocks with estimate of $200,000 plus. The Jarama is a capable grand touring machine, and its low production numbers and styling serve to make it an undeniably unique Lamborghini. Please visit www.pmautos.com for more info or call David Young at 1-619-515-2220


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Clearly a car ahead of its time, what with the clear Chevy Citation coupe and Sunbird GT cues. But hey, even if those cars hadn't sullied it, it would still be ugly.
 
But it's Italian, so ugly's forgivable because of all of the passion in every weird angle, NACA duct, funky taillight, strangely thin and elegant greenhouse line plunked on a clown shoe base of a body.. It's like Giguario did the top, and then told somebody what the beltline down should look like over a phone. I'd still rather push this than drive a Camry tho.
 
id love to know if the "tops" were removeable panels or what

i have a serious soft spot for the early lambo stuff even in its akwierdness...but i see alfetta tail lights with a odd roof on an alfetta body with a montral nose on it
 
I see a Ferrari 400 dry humping a Montreal..

Ditto on the Lambo stuff.. I really love Bertone styling on Lambos, It's like somebody on acid sneezed cubism all over a car.. Jalpas especially. You're right though, their Jarama/Espada weird huge greenhouse designs get me too.. It's like they wanted you to drive one of those egg chairs that hot blonde chicks with bobbed hairdos and white jumper/miniskirts/kneehigh boots are sitting in when you watch things like Dr.No..
 
EXACTLY!!!

before my friend in reno died..we were looking for a 60s lambo project...obviously we really wanted a mira
 
Dr.Jass said:
I'm assuming sarcasm here, which is hard to convey in text. Nothing forgivable about the appearance of this car; it's fuckin' ugly.
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That was half-hearted sarcasm.. There are plenty of Italian cars I completely despised the looks of until I spent time working on, and driving them.. Everybody immediately thinks of the Pinin Farina Ferrari designs, but there were so many cars that Pinin Farina, Bertone, Zagato, Ital Design, Ghia, and others turned out that just look wrong. You're told that the Italians made the prettiest, and the craziest cars.. To some extent that's true. But for every win, there were fifty ugly ducklings. Maybe they don't follow the golden ratio, or the Fibonacci sequence.. Whatever, no matter what they're polarizing. You either love or hate them. That's what makes all Italian Design so great. There were no Camrys on their drafting tables. Only the Italians could make you look at a car and ask yourself, "This moves under its own power?" Whether classically beautiful, insanely designed, or even a base model people mover like a Fiat Cinquecento, they all make you feel special. There's some touch, some thought towards your personal interaction with the car, or some massive mechanical failure that reminds you that you're driving a machine with a personality. While all old cars have some kind of a personality per se, only an Italian car has massive bipolar mood swings in the space of half a second. That Lambo is ugly by all conventional standards, but I guarantee you that if you got the chance to drive one, your lizard brain would want to own it.
 
I'll just leave this here.. I've posted this link before, but if you don't start pitching a tent around the 1:50-2:00 minute mark, have somebody check your pulse..

[video=youtube;0LkQbVTWr4g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LkQbVTWr4g[/video]
 
well put ironman well put..and they indeed have more "soul" than anything else out there it seems..save for maybe the brass erra and older

im going to watch that....knowing full well the sounds and that ive seen it before...however..having heard a full race tuned veriosn being tuned in a shop up in seattle where the collectors collections still get ABUSED(vintage race cars in pieces being prepped for more)...i know that vid doesnt fully translat the glorious sounds
 
iron..isnt this the same engine?.....if you dont love that sound..youve got issues

[video=youtube;k9M1CHYoJj0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M1CHYoJj0[/video]
 
69.5CUDA said:
well put ironman well put..and they indeed have more "soul" than anything else out there it seems..save for maybe the brass erra and older

im going to watch that....knowing full well the sounds and that ive seen it before...however..having heard a full race tuned veriosn being tuned in a shop up in seattle where the collectors collections still get ABUSED(vintage race cars in pieces being prepped for more)...i know that vid doesnt fully translat the glorious sounds
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No, but it has two of them in a handcrafted wooden boat.. Can't find much more wood than that outside of the redwood forest if you try..
 
69.5CUDA said:
iron..isnt this the same engine?.....if you dont love that sound..youve got issues

[video=youtube;k9M1CHYoJj0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M1CHYoJj0[/video]
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Yup, and even though he's got a couple of fouled plugs (absolutely normal when cold), nothing makes me want to stop watching. Something about six dual throat Webers in a cacophony get my blood stirring every time.

Even their smallest v8, the 2.5 in the Urraco had one venturi per cylinder.. There's just no sound like that.
 
[video=youtube;8emS44ki4fA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emS44ki4fA[/video]

All that noise from a v8 slightly larger than a family sized bottle of Coke. Also, that little 2.5 V8 puts out about 220-230 horse, naturally aspirated.. that's forty more than my truck's 5.2 in 1986.. Ten more than my Satellite's 5.2 was rated at in '68.
 
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