A Winter's Tale - The Shah's Miura 

Thanks for sharing these memories

I agree with you! Beautiful tale...

We're all living the dream

Yes, unfortunately. Iran in the 60/70ties was such a modern and livable country. Good friend’s parents got to flee bc of this radical Islamic revolution.

That's nice news. I have about zero knowledge about Persia/Iran, only that the current system are the sole reason why anyone I've met from there fled the country. It never seemed like a place where the previous era state leaders items would ever be on display.

We'll I'm not from Persia

@@herculeanmeal9270 Ok. MMy point was that it is surprising that the current leaders allow a museum to display his cars.

I bought a new MGB late in 1973__I took delivery of it the Friday of Labor Day weekend, so as I type this, exactly forty-nine (49) years ago today__and I drove it through Detroit's winters for two (2) years. While I didn't (yet) have the insight to carry a bag of sand in the trunk, I did haul around my electrician's toolbox everywhere I went. I have plenty of snow stories with that car, though I don't recall any that involved putting the top down (just as well, as I'm certain I'd have destroyed the plastic window in those temps). Fast-forward to November of 2000, and my not-yet wife buys a '99 BMW M Rdstr for me to drive (CPO w/5400 miles AND the factory hdtp). We vowed that we'd take the hardtop off (at this point, we hadn't even seen the soft top yet) the first time the temperature went above 32*F. We headed out on a short drive, and it began snowing; at 32-34*F the snow is pretty wet, and on the 1st swipe of the windshield wipers it dumped a pile of slush in my lap! I drove it through eleven (11) Ohio winters (before we moved to Florida) augmenting the electrician's toolbox with a 50# bag__sometimes 2 bags__of whole kernel corn, since we fed the ducks living on the creek behind the house. With dedicated snowtires all around, it was master of handling the snow & ice conditions, leading my wife to claim that it steered better than her AWD X5. Not related to Miuras or driving in the snow, but with an undeniable connection to today's timeline... On the Thursday before Labor Day weekend 2001, we took "factory delivery" of a 2001 M Rdstr. This being my first "new" car since buying the MGB twenty-eight (28) years prior. Now twenty-one (21) years after that, we still have both ('99 & '01) M Rdstrs, and around 8-yrs ago, I added a '99 M Coupe to the fleet. Through it all, I have also managed to hang onto the 1957 Austin-Healey that I bought in 1978, lest anyone think that my 2-seat sports cars constitute a mid-life crisis... A note to Mr. Innocenti: I did have six (6) occupants in my MGB once, and with the top up; myself and five (5) skinny little high school girls! Hey c'mon, I was only 18 at the time myself!

I hear that modern Lamborghinis tend to burst into flames when they get hot, especially if they are revved at low speed. It's because owners like to fit lightweight exhaust systems for a stronger noise, and these systems lack sufficient heat shielding. Lots of revs at liw speed, especially if frustrated at being stuck in a traffic jam means burnt Lambo

Dirty Harry by Lalo Schifrin & Meglio Stasera( It had better be tonight , from the MGM film The Pink Panther).

@@johnchurch4705 Thank you, I was about to ask the same as his.

And just realised they were in the description haha.

Mirko Venturi