1972 Lamborghini Miura SV #5098

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1972 Lamborghini Miura SV Chassis #5098/3673. 1 of 150 SV models produced by Lamborghini. Production number 751, is one of the last ten Miura’s produced at Lamborghini. (Last Miura production 762)

 Investing or collecting cars is a lifetime commitment. This isn’t something you do for 2 years, 5 years or even 10 years. It’s a constant process of sharing information among collectors and historians to complete the murky history of some of the world’s greatest automobiles. Collectors and historians share a constant thirst for knowledge. We pursue the story. Great cars have great history and a great story. I have spent the past 5 months following up on leads, scaling the internet, calling auction houses and reaching out to car clubs from around the world to complete this story of a very special Miura we purchased in November.

1972 Lamborghini Miura SV #5098 has an interesting history. It is one of the last Miura examples produced, finished sometime in November 1972 as production number 751. (The last Miura production was 762) Supplied new to Captain Arthur Mechin, a former RAF WWII pilot who had eccentric reputation in South Africa. Captain Arthur Mechin was a larger than life character in the early days of African Aviation. Mechin’s claim to fame was his Sunday morning newspaper delivery flights through out Rhodesia in his ‘Faithful Annie,’ a left over Ave Anson Mk1 from WW11. An aircraft that Mechin manhandled at over 158mph and 7,000 ft.

Mechin’s many notable adventures include engine failure forcing him to crash land in the Luangwa Valley. Remarkably, Mechin walked out of the remote jungle, inhabited only by wild animals, 10 days later after finding a native village. On another occasion, an engine (Seven Cylinder Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah) fell off one of Mechin’s aircraft. He managed to land safely and a few days later paid for an advertisement in the Rhodesia Herald newspaper asking if anyone had found the engine. The Rhodesia Herald advertisement read, “If anyone in the northern suburbs has found a Cheetah, it’s mine.”