Oh, my goodness, 462! Our next door neighbor in Napoli had a 1970 Miura, burnt orange. His garage man
would warm it up for him when he was going to drive it. Just across the narrow street/alley, which my bedroom
window adjoined, so about 25 ft away. At least two or three Saturday mornings, I was awakened from a
sound sleep at 8 or 9 am (Saturday) by the sound of the Miura's V-12, rrrrrr-whooof, raaaap, raaaap, raaap, raaap - as he blipped
the throttle to warm up the oil. On several occasions, I dressed quickly and popped out to almost literally
drool over the car. This was 1971 and the Miura was absolute king of the car hill, at least in my book for a
street car. The garage man several times opened the rear bodywork to reveal the four triple Webers and
the gorgeous ribbed aluminum heads, block and transaxle, all an integrated sidewinder V12 unit. He let me
look closely inside, too. I told him, once all was quiet and we could talk - "Bella macchina! Bellisimo!, signore."
"Macchina da corsa!" "Fantastico" (My fairly limited Italian - "Pretty (or nice) car! Beautiful, sir. A racing car.
Fantastic or great")
Fond memories, even nearing half a century ago.
I am pretty sure nobody compared Lee molds to Snap On tools. More to HF tools, good enough most
of the time for non-pro use. I REALLY needed a 1000 ft-lb 3/4" drive air impact, and could in no way
justify the price of a good one. I could swing the $95 on sale with discount HF price and it did the
job.
Bill
