Letters to the Editor
A note from John Apen--
Winter Park FL 1st Annual Concours Sunday 20 October:
Winter Park staged the first Annual Concours by closing off several blocks of beautiful Park Avenue, lined with unique and prestigious shops. Over 100 cars and a large crowd greeted the "Rodeo Drive" of Florida event.
#240w Phil Bachman TN, Chief Judge, looks over Wayne Nelson's, Longwood Fl, prize winning Daytona..
#268w 250 TdF restored & shown by Wayne & Lorene Sparling, Alva FL. Wayne was NART racing team's chief body and chassis fabricator for many years.
 
Here is another of Wayne's cars- his PF Cab that he drives everywhere, as I remember he took it on about a 5,000 mile tour to New England and then to Europe several years ago.
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More on the Miura
As a Miura enthusiast, owner of the Ex-Shah of Persia Miura SV and organiser of the first-ever International Miura Reunion, I was intrigued to see Peter Vack's piece earlier this year and read Walter Baumer's comments. Actually, its no secret; The Countach has a fabulously balanced chassis and is the handling sportscar the Miura could only hope to be. The Miura gets its following from the fact that it was the first mid-engined production sportscar for the road and it was clothed in one of the most beautiful bodies ever seen. However, Miuras (although some of us optimistic owners would have you know otherwise) are beset with all kinds of mechanical ailments, until they are painstakingly and carefully sorted over time.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that there is a previously well-established factory-recognized Miura register on www.lamborghiniregistry.com, featuring not just the cars (based on the factory's own production list) but histories, restorations, technical specs, specialist info, cars for sale etc. Unlike www.miuraregistry.com, ...
www.lamborghiniregistry.com
is the definitive Miura registry and has the most (by far) correctly-documented cars. Many of us Miura historians have noticed that the histories of Miuras entered on the
www.miuraregistry.com
site are unsubstantiated personal opinion ... in many instances, or simply grossly incorrect information, relative to the factory’s own register/list (for example Miura no. 5110 is claimed as "the last one" when in fact it is four (4) from the end of production. Try
www.lamborghiniregistry.com,
then go to the Miura registry. You wont be disappointed.
Sincerely,
Joe Sackey
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