Lamborghini Miura returns to the Italian Job as Lamborghini celebrates Miura’s 50th

The Lamborghini Miura is 50 years old this year, and Lamborghini celebrate by taking a pair of Miuras back to the Great St. Bernard Pass.

In 1966, Lamborghini launched the stunning mid-engined Miura, a remarkable achievement for a fledgling company which had only been in the business of making supercars for a couple of years, as Ferruccio Lamborghini demonstrated his ability to build cars that were the match of rival Ferraris.

That is 50 years ago this year, and Lamborghini are having a bit of a celebration, part of which is a trip to the Great St Bernard Pass with a pair of Miuras from Lamborghini’s museum and three of the men most associated with the Miura – engineers Gian Paolo Dallara and Paolo Stanzani and Miura designer Marcello Gandini.

But what a trip to the Great St Bernard Pass, you may ask?

That’s because the Miura featured in one of the most iconic openings of a film when it drove along the same road for the opening credits of The Italian Job in 1969, as a Matt Monro soundtrack played ‘On Days Like These’, before coming to an unpleasant end in a tunnel.

These two Miuras (a gold Miura S and a yellow Miura SV) didn’t meet a sticky end in the tunnel (actually, nor did the orange Miura in the film – an already wrecked Miura was used for the crashed car and the original car was up for sale last year), and Lamborghini managed to deliver a couple of photos of the outing.

Sadly, Lamborghini hasn’t managed to deliver a video recreating the opening of The Italian Job, so we’ve posted the original below.

Always worth a watch.

The Italian Job Lamborghini Miura opening credits video