The Lamborghini Miura is an iconic car, it showed Lamborghini truly had arrived to the supercar table. They could compete with the likes of Ferrari and Porsche. There is a tremendous frisson of nostalgia for me with this model. I remember having the Matchbox model as a child and I also remember watching the Italian Job, which has a Lamborghini Miura crash in the classic opening scene.

Thanks to my Dutch friend I have a Matchbox model from the early seventies, I also have two other Matchbox models one Made in Bulgaria and the other in Thailand.

When I play Gran Turismo 6 (on Sony Playstation 3), one of my favourite cars to “drive” is a Miura which I have in gold to match the Matchbox model.

Kinsmart have a Miura in 1/34 scale available in 4 colours, the only one I am missing is red, I have green, yellow and orange.

The Bertone design was influenced by the Ford GT40, but the Lamborghini was intended as a fast road car and not a race car.