Lamborghini Espada update. This or a Ferrari Daytona? 

I live vicariously through you Harry. Sorry for my grammar. I am dutch. I studied automotive technologie because of you. It is very hard but if it gets me close to what you are doing, it is worth the trouble. Love you Harry

It looks like nothing else on the road. It's just stunning to look at, and it has an engine to match. Just a thing of beauty.

The Marzal style roof turned out beautifully, and the interior really makes this car. Mr. Tyrrell and company did an amazing job with the Espada bringing it up to Muira spec. What a fabulous car, even the pistons used in the engine rebuild are works of art. Thank you, Mr. Metcalfe for sharing your cars with us! 👍

As a ten year old, I used to pore over cars like this and the Iso Grifo in my 'Observer's Book of the Car'. They were (and still are) things of such rarified beauty. It's a real treat to see and hear one beautifully restored and gunned down the road. Thank you Harry!

Quite my favourite car in your garage, would be my choice every time, it’s such a great looking car nothing has come close

What an amazing sound from that V12, I can but imagine what impact the Espada must have made in 1970!

That´s a relief. I feared you were going to prefer a Daytona. I had the pleasure of driving an Espada some miles, to and from a shop with a rolling dyno. Even if the neighbours in this industrial area were used to hearing all sorts of racing engines (the shop specialised in rally cars) they came gathering from all over to see what was going on when the Espada was going flat out at some 8000 rpm. The sound experience was magic!

I wouldn’t be too happy with the puffs of blue smoke considering it’s just had a complete engine rebuild. Great looking motor though.

Harry gets to the meat of every classic car drive test: So much of the experience (positive or negative) comes down to the state of engine and chassis tune. A freshly-rebuilt "budget" sportscar can be more satisfying to drive than a tired supercar. In this case, his car is about as "on the button" as you are likely to find in an Espada.

Harry, that "soft" suspension is a feature of the era with some Italian cars like that of the Alfa Romeo Alfetta from the same era which includes the GT, GTV and GTV6 coupes as well as the sedans. I took my GTV 2000 in 2 road rallies last year in the Adelaide hills which are lumpy and serpentine. These cars GRIP but they are not unsettled by bad roads unlike the mk4 Golf Gti that we owned that was plain dangerous on the same roads as it bump steered and torque steered all over the place. It is telling that the winner of that rally was a Datsun 180b coupe, which also has that long, absorbent suspension. Anyway... back the video... which I'm loving. Now at the end. This video encapsulates my appreciation of the Alfetta GTV. You can DRIVE it on real roads. It has a "race" engine, both the 4 and 6 cylinder versions and with some very minor mods (shocks, rears springs and front sway bar) it handles as you describe "much better than it has any right too". Like the Alfetta's the Escapade remains a relative bargain... Thanks Harry, loved the video!! Pity the GTV6 you tried was poorly sorted. You should find one that is sorted. Try getting in touch with these guys... alfettagtv6.co.uk

Hopefully a ferrari daytona review comes soon!

The Espada is gorgeous, I’ve loved them since the first time I saw one in 1969 as a 16 year old. You are a fortunate man Harry to own one and we love seeing you enjoy it. Good for you !

I used to work for the importers back in the mid 70’s boring old job driving these wonderful machines from Saint Agata to Uk . Always kept at 4k revs, well sometimes.

I love it when Harry explains something, as it is always in a non-patronising way, like advancing... something I knew nothing about and now do!

Espada! Always loved them for some reason, I remember going to an Oulton Park classic car show back in 91 or 92 and there was a mint one there for sale at £18k… if only I had the money back then.

Harry: Old Chinese Saying: " Man who wears one watch always knows what time it is; Man who wears two never quite sure."

Harry, I found your channel BECAUSE of the Espada pre-covid. It is by far my most favourite car in your collection and I've been in love with Espadas since I first saw them in the early 70s. Yours is just gorgeous and I'm green with envy. Enjoy and keep driving it as it was designed to be driven.

I has always been curious about the Espada, ever since i saw it on a late 80's magazine dedicated to Lamborghini. The 60's muscle car look with the Italian race engine got my attention. Good to see it finally on video. I am surprise how street able the car is with such a good overall performance compared to the Ferrari of the same era.

Thats quite a bit of blue smoke for a freshly rebuilt engine! But stunning car!

Brilliant brilliant as always -your Espada is so beautifully prepared and maintained. And what a fantastic road test-your commentary reveals yet again what a true car enthusiast you are. Enjoying your videos week on week-can’t wait for the next one-thanks Harry.

That engine sounds magical! What a beautiful example.

Such a beautiful car. Awesome work by Tyrrell!

The format and camerawork in this video delivers an immersive experience. Thanks for the ride.

Stunningly beautiful car with classic lines. I've loved the Espada styling for the past 46+ years.

I had a HUGE SMILE on my face throughout the entire video. Thank you for sharing experiences, Harry!!!!!! Love your videos.

I adore the Espada. When I was 10(ish), my mum's fella at the time had one. It's the car that got me into cars. His was the same colour but with gold Campagnolo Knock offs. It was stunning, I loved going for drives in it.

really enjoyed this segment ! thanks for getting the full sound experience in the video !

To hear this majestic beast flying between the hedges is such a treat. To see it? I haven't made up my mind yet.

What a beautifull car. THE BEST of your collection! The absolute pinnacle of italian design. It may be loud but every click and rattle is pure mechanical music to me. It is as if the beast is alive. None of the modern cars is close to this. Only the big Mercedes 6 l. V8 is of the same bread. Thank you, Harry.

Been watching long enough to have seen a few walks through your collection, and the look of the Espada steals me every time. The rear seats do it, how well they show through all the glass, yet simultaneously snug & encapsulated, intimate yet sprawling.. And that's before realizing how well it can go, does go ! Thank you for sharing, it's sublime :D

Another quality video Harry. Great to see the car being driven properly. Love it

Excellent owner insight, and love the slow motion studies of cornering.

It’s a thoroughbred, this one has had all the investment required to make it work properly. Absolutely epic car sensitively and sensibly upgraded to make it sing, fabulous.

That interior with that roof and that soundtrack, fabulous! I can feel a Harry's roadtrip coming... Keep an eye on the oil though!

It’s so great to see someone who has the opportunity to indulge in their passion and bring the rest of us along for the ride. Amazing car.

Harry. I just closed my eyes and listen to that engine as you ran it through the gears. OMG. Wonderful!!! Thank you

A friend of mine owend a Series 2 Espada and I had the chance to drive it... It is an amazing car. At low speed, you could hear al the mechanical components, the engine, the sound of the gearbox, the rearend drive and the excaust - opening it up, all mixed up to a opera of tech! And one detail of driving it, I never will forget: the movement of the gearlever. Normaly it is a fixed part of the interior, but in the Espade, it moves up and down while driving on a B road. Funny experience, to see the chassis and the drivetrain working... Also the location of the (absolute useless) radio - and the most beautiful window operners ever made, for the rear windows. A wonderfull car - and this one is quite one of the best examples. Hope to see it on a tour. As always: a very impressive video with stunning views! Thank you!

Love the enthusiasm - and appreciate your comments on the dynamics of a 50 year-old. Having run a 1967 MGC and 1972 Elan for over thirty years now, I find the difference best illustrated by "warning" chevrons on bends: in the MG it's "ease off", the Lotus is "prepare to attack!" Seems the Espada is in the second category. Engine aside, your particular car has a "space age" vibe that's unique. Very glad you're enjoying it properly.

The landscape matches the color of the interior. I like the roof shots showing the inside of the car, and the road / surroundings at the same time.

Oh joy! That engine note and gearbox.... Thank you for sharing this with us, Harry.

These used to be so cheap... Lovely now you have been right through it, I'm sure it's a delightful trip back in time!

I always found it amazing how much smaller you can make a car feel by sorting out the suspension,

Exhilarating. Harry’s vids give you almost a complete sense of what it’s like to own, maintain and drive classic sports cars. I watched this car getting rebuilt by Tyrrell and it’s amazing to see it driving at its peak after all that work, not to mention the beautiful cockpit. 6 stars.

Gorgeous sounding and looking car Harry, nice to see it again, one of my favourites in your fleet

Brought back good memories to see yours out on the road in this video, I was lucky enough to have owned a couple in my early 20s back in the late 80s when they were only making around £7k and were in great unrestored condition. Not quite as good as a freshly rebuilt one, but they drove really well and I got a lot of pleasure out of them. Hige attention getters in those days as they were like driving a spaceship on the road. Sadly as with most things in life they had to go as other costs came along. These days I'd need a lottery win to buy one 😂😂

Great video Harry, it's so nice to see you preserving some of these great cars, For a fresh motor it seems a bit smokey, it was the left bank, early in the Vid, then both a bit later... mabee Ian should have a bit of a look over it...

Very addictive sound! Smiling through the whole video 🫶!

Absolutely stunning Harry and that sound!!!! 😃

Great to hear about the Espada. You get that fabulous V12 engine, fantastic handling and exclusiveness for a fraction of Countach or Daytona money. Have you ever driven a Maserati Khamsin ? That seems to be another underated and rare 70’s GT.

The Espada is just poetry on wheels! Noticed the oil smoke too, suspect that it either needs a nice long run due to lack of use or the rings haven’t bedded in yet

Happy for you to do as many videos on the Espada as you want, what an extraordinary car.

Wow.. that's a dream car Harry. Lucky man indeed! Thanks for sharing this experience with us man!

I never really liked the Espada but the more I look at it the more it grows on me. It's kind of like a Miura saloon. That one looks really nice. Engine sounded great. Thanks for showing us that one. Interesting car.

Great vid as ever. Bit concerned at the blue smoke from your exhausts you wouldn't expect from a full rebuild. Hope it beds in better.

Oh, yes! You give such great reviews, because you really care. And, now with sloooow mo! Love it! Thanks!

I really enjoyed this vicarious blast down those country roads. The Espada is a gorgeous thing. Love your channel Harry.

It reminds me of my Fiat Dino 2400 Coupe,which I owned in the mid - late 1990s . In fact the engine note was very similar, despite having half as many cylinders , the urgency and induction note on the Weber carbs , so very encouraging to keep your foot down . Very interesting about the suspension comparisons to other Italian exotics too . No , it’s not an Italian Rolls Royce , as you mentioned in road testers comments , but certainly a Very Grand Tourer . Other comments on here have remarked about the smoke from the exhaust from freshly rebuilt engine , might settle down with few more miles or might be running slightly rich, at present . Either way, love your video as always , Harry, makes mr Sunday evenings.

Taking values out of the equation then it simply boils down to personal taste. For me the Daytona edges it in the looks department but the Espada would be the more useable. To be honest I'd be thrilled to own either but (lottery win aside) that's never going to happen !! Love how 70s exotics from the same stable were completely different from one another, Countach/Espada/Jarama/Urraco showed that, when a human rather than CAD is in charge of aesthetics.

YES!! Get it Harry! Great to see it driven with enthusiasm!

Harry - you make the best videos about the best cars, thank you.

I had the pleasure of having a go in an Espada on a circuit, and I felt that the grip was surprisingly low on the period tyres, but that the balance was wonderful. Then I realised that if you put the period tyres on a modern car, it would probably understeer off at the first corner 🙂

I always heard that the first Lamborghini was built with the aim to be more extreme than any Ferrari. However, what I didn't know was that it was about touring cars. I always thought Lamborghini's goal was to make a street legal car that was closer to a full race car than Ferrari did. I wonder if other people thought that way. I really enjoyed how you had special forged pistons built. Also, built of much better stuff than possible in the 1970s.

Really enjoyed that little run. The noise is sooooo amazing, the revs perfect harmony and reminds me of Lamborghini.

Wonderful. Well done Harry for properly sorting it. Very special.

Love this car, Harry -- easily my favorite Lambo of all time!!

There was a fair bit of blue smoke in some of the B road cornering shots. Is it burning oil?

A friend of mine owns one, and 25 years ago he took me through the hills of Melbourne, Australia at rally driver speeds. The g-forces were extreme and there were several times I thought we would "become one with the scenery" but it held on like nothing else I've ever experienced. An amazing motor car.

Thanks, Harry. Love to see you have fun. I take the pups out on the B roads around our farm and exercise my little slapshift Mazda. What fun for us as well!

The best car in your garage by far. Love it. Was too young to remember by Dad having them in the early 70’s. He had a Lamborghini concession before the fuel crisis killed sales!

Certainly a car which makes people look twice👍😀 was surprised to see smoke from the engine just before 7.00 maybe it’s normal! Stunning car and very original looks👏👍😀

I just love Espadas. The only occasions were i see them, is every other year or so on the Techno Classica. Never seen or heard one on the road. You did a good thing making this perhaps the best cared-for and best thought-through road-ready car of its kind. Emjoyed every minute of it, as usual!

Absolutely wonderful car. The efforts in getting to this state have paid off. It drives like this without modern tyres, and is so engaging.

I always assumed that the Espada would be a lumbering old beast, but my lord, seeing it being punted around those roads, it looks light and agile. What a surprise!

I have loved these so unique and stunning cars from the moment I laid eyes on one as a kid. Oh that sound from V12- incredible. Would so love to own one these. 👍🏻👏👏

A beautiful machine, without doubt my favourite in your garage Harry.

Great inspiring video! Always loved this car since discovering it as a child back in the days!… Thanks for that drive and comments

Harry, my standard practice for old Marelli distributors is to keep the points, but have them fire a couple MSD boxes. The points last much longer and it works otherwise magnificent.

Curious to know what time of day Harry’s videos are filmed as he never seems to come across any traffic to slow his progress. Either that or it’s seventeen takes before he gets a clear run! Epic sound from that V12 and quite the driver and car to be pushed round some of those corners without modern driving aids. Good work as always. Would like to see some more UK road trip videos Harry!

What a lovely passenger seat experience. With Harry I love that he truly appreciates his privilege to have these vehicles in his life & while with him the importance of correct & proper custonianship. I have it now but its not mine.

You've sold me, Harry. I've been poring over your series on rebuilding the engine with great interest, too. Thank so much for sharing them, and thanks of course to Iain and his crew. It's been fascinating to take it all in. Cheers, Brett

Sensational car. I saw one on the road once a few years ago, in a very unlikely place in central Illinois. I was in my Miata and would have followed but I was fueling up. I was so surprised and excited to see an Espada in real life that I nearly poured gasoline all over myself.

Interesting that it's a bit smokier on throttle than I would have expected having been rebuilt - maybe needs much more exercising to bed the rings in better?

Harry what a great car! Sounds really sweet when you rev it up! Enjoy it!

Great introduction to this car. I would never have expected these driving dynamics. It looks like it has none of that. Really was ahead of its time.

Has to be the Espada. I had a Matchbox model of the Marzal show car when I was about 8 - one of my favourites.... In the 1990s, there were a couple of Espadas that came up for sale at used car sites near me - around £15k! I had a Silver Shadow at the time and was sorely tempted..... but the Espada bills could have ruined me 😃

hard to believe Tryell let it out of the garage with the timing advance not working. You said "didnt have the top end," at video begining and I said its not advancing the timing.

I was never much of an Espada fan until I started watching your videos profiling the car. What a gem of a car and so usable. Ironically, as a kid, I had a model of the show car on which it was based and was fascinated with it, especially the hexagon louvers on the back and the huge windows on the doors that allowed you to see the road below the beltline of the car. I'd never seen anything like it and just adored it.

Practical family transport! It's wonderful that Harry and others like him have the money and inclination to keep these old girls in such great condition.

Not a bad problem to have! However, if a chance to own a good Daytona presents I think owning one is hard to pass. How about a 288 GTO - automotive perfection.

I'll take an Espada - a far more usable beast - but haven driven a Daytona that would also have to have a retro fit power steering system fitted, it makes a huge difference. I would also hazard a guess that the non standard translucent roof panel on the Espada harms the cars overall refinement from standard somewhat.

Spirited driving. Don’t think I saw you give other cars this many beans.. to me it says how much enjoyment this one gives you. Not a fan of the exterior, but the interior is wonderfull, as is the ride. Keep living the dream Harry and thank you for letting us enjoy it too.

The espada has grown on me over the years. It looks great and sounds fantastic. Good on you Harry.

Why don't you fit the contactless electronic ignition to the standard disctributor Harry? Surely that would be an improvement and maintenance free 👍 Bit of smoke from yer exhaust, or is that normal for those V12's ?!!

Very enjoyable video on a magnificent car! However I did see a bit of blue oil smoke under hard acceleration out of one of the left-handers. I'm wondering what the cause of that could be?

Trying to close my eyes and imagine this machine at full tilt on the Autobahn as I stand out in a farm field, listening and seeing it approaching then disappearing. Must be a wondrous vision. Nice video, Harry - thanks for sharing with us.

Really helpful the way you film the movements the wheels over dips and bumps to demonstrate the suspension travel and damping. Being one of the Great Unwashed, I was only able to afford and early model Alfasud TI and the damping control and ride quality was phenomenal.

To me, this is the even more beautiful car.

Harry, is the tachometer really accurate? Doesn't seem to rise as fast as expected with the revs. Can you please do a road trip through Spain/south of France with the Espada?

Lovely to see, thanks for sharing Harry 👍

This is very likely the finest Espada in the world given the comprehensive esthetic snd mechanical restoration and the meticulous care and attention given by Harry and Ian Tyrrell.. A real pleasure to see and a wonderful celebration of top class mechanical engineering and quality analog machinery... How appropriate that Harry is the caretaker of this brilliant motorcar🌸👍🏾🤣