Rare Find in the living room

[SHOZ]

This guy kept a Lamborghini in his living room.

https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11790272/rare-abandoned-lamborghini-miura-p400s-auction/

RARE FIND

Abandoned one-of-a-kind car found locked inside living room after collecting dust for 24 years – now it’s worth $2m​

 

[atikovi]

How does a car become abandoned in a living room for 24 years? Didn't the house get foreclosed on go to a tax sale years before? Sounds more like a story made up to hype the auction. And how do you even GET a car into a living room?

 

[Snagglefoot]

Was there a body in the car?

 

[atikovi]

Was there a body in the car?

Maybe of a few mice and rats after 24 years.

 

[fdcg27]

When this old dear went into the living room it was worth maybe two hundred large.
Value might have been lower due to the hideous color as well as having had a fair amount of use for an exotic.
You wonder why the car was put in a living room and not simply sold.

 

[fantastic]

If this car brings anywhere near 2 mil...
Click bait titles are everywhere these days to drum up a sale.

 

[Kira]

Since all the barns are gone from Long Island, there can't be any "barn finds".
In this case, the house had no garage and the play room was too small.
I agree with fantastic.

NOTE: David Jansen (of "The Fugitive" fame) was in a 1970's era TV show where a buddy had a 1940 Ford in his living room.
One line mentioned, "$40-a-gallon special paint".

 

[ecotourist]

I had a wooden boat so beautiful I said it wouldn't look out of place in the living room. But it was 13' 6" long so it was a bit big for that. It was made of marine mahogany and sitka spruce.

Never had a car as nice as the Miura (or the wooden boat for that matter).

 

[wings&wheels]

Never thought a Miura could be unattractive, I was wrong.

 

[dadto2]

How does a car become abandoned in a living room for 24 years? Didn't the house get foreclosed on go to a tax sale years before? Sounds more like a story made up to hype the auction. And how do you even GET a car into a living room?

There is no information in that article, but I imagine some rich, eccentric recluse parked it there 24 years ago and lived with it there. Probably just recently deceased?

 

[KrisZ]

There is no information in that article, but I imagine some rich, eccentric recluse parked it there 24 years ago and lived with it there. Probably just recently deceased?

Sure I can see that, but that’s a far cry from “locked in a living room and collecting dust for 24 years”.

How do you even lock something in a living room?

Click bait for sure.

 

[Owen Lucas]

Never thought a Miura could be unattractive, I was wrong.

I used to go to a body shop that had a few of these sitting under tarps, in various stages of restoration, disassembly, or sun exposure. I didn't think much of them as rare cars. I figured they were a poor mans Lambo but wow, I'm sure even those junkers are worth something now.

 

[02SE]

I wonder if they'll take a 22 year old Camry in trade?

 

[SHOZ]

https://www.coolthings.com/lamborghini-inside-your-living-room/
https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/lamborghini-s-inside-a-living-room-are-insanely-awesome/
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a...ghini-miura-goes-to-auction-living-room-life/
https://barnfinds.com/the-living-room-lambo-1970-lamborghini-miura-p400-s/