Lamborghini has restored this beautifully brown Miura SV, and you must stare at it

Over the weekend, a gaggle of classic car enthusiasts gathered in Rome’s Centro Storico for the inaugural Anantara Concorso Roma to celebrate ‘La Dolce Vita delle Automobili’. Lucky them.

Alongside the posh privateers with their extremely expensive and historically significant cars, a homegrown Italian manufacturer also turned up. Said carmaker was Lamborghini, and it brought with it a 1972 Miura SV that had recently been restored and certified by its Polo Storico heritage department.

But hang on, it gets even better, because this particular SV is… brown.

Isn’t it wonderful? Lambo officially calls this colour Luci del Bosco, and during its three-year restoration programme, “particular attention was dedicated to the paintwork”. Apparently this particular shade of brown has changed and evolved since its use on the Miura, so it was “necessary to identify the correct chromatic specification in relation to the year of production of the car”.

The exterior shade now pairs perfectly with a retrimmed mustard interior (well, it’s Italian so it’s actually ‘Senape’), and a number of bits were returned back to their original spec, including the extended handbrake, the smaller steering wheel and the hazard warning lights.

On the outside, the grilles up front and the fins above the hidden door handles were returned to their 1972 spec, and the centrelock hubs were restored, while the correct ‘Bob-type’ (named after test driver Bob Wallace) exhaust tips were also fitted.

Have a look through the pictures above and drink it all in. Then have a little gander below at the overall best in show winner – a 16-cylinder Maserati V4 Sport Zagato from 1932 that survived WW2 thanks to a Dutchman who dismantled the car and hid the V16 engine in his bedroom…