The Lamborghini Miura #3586 from The Italian Job Takes Centre Stage at the Anantara Concorso Roma 2026

In the solemn silence of the mountains that lead to the Great St Bernard Pass, a flash of orange moves sinuously along the road, accompanied by the intoxicating sound of Lamborghini’s mighty V12. It is the Miura that, in the opening scenes of The Italian Job, displays the full, harmonious, and revolutionary beauty that transformed it into a powerful advertisement of itself — and sealed its international success. Those images, bathed in the majestic quiet of the Alps, did more than exalt the car’s lines; they told the story of a new idea of the automobile: revolutionary, singular, capable of uniting a racing soul with everyday use on the road.

The Lamborghini Miura #3586 during filming of the 1969 film “The Italian Job”. The famous opening sequence shows the car climbing the road to the Great St Bernard Pass — a scene that has since become iconic.
When Paramount, the film’s producer, asked Lamborghini for an orange Miura for the shoot, there was a precise constraint: it had to be that colour, because another Miura — already destroyed, in the same orange — was to be used in the subsequent scene, after the simulated murder in the tunnel. The only available car was the P400 chassis #3586, ready for delivery, with white interior.

There remained, however, one concern: those seats, being exceptionally delicate, had to be kept intact. Enzo Moruzzi, the test driver who would serve as the stunt double in the film, had two black seats fitted in their place, though the headrests — fixed within the car’s structure — could not be changed. It was a detail that would later give rise to a small misunderstanding: those who had noticed black seats in the film had simply been misled by this entirely justified precaution.
The original white interior of Miura #3586 was temporarily modified during filming, with two black seats fitted to avoid damage caused by Lamborghini test driver Enzo Moruzzi’s repeated entries and exits from the car.
Having entered the Kaiser Collection, the originality of Miura #3586 was proven beyond doubt by Lamborghini itself and by Moruzzi in person. Today, perfectly restored by the Polo Storico of the House of the Bull, the Miura #3586 continues to embody the magnificent meeting of two minds: Marcello Gandini, designer at Bertone, and Giampaolo Dallara, whose decision to mount the V12 engine transversally transformed a car with a racing soul into something revolutionary and utterly unique — a road car unlike anything before it.
Restored by Lamborghini Polo Storico, Miura #3586 is today part of the Kaiser Collection.

Around its birth, another story has solidified over time — one that has entered automotive culture as part of the mythology: the celebrated exchange between Enzo Ferrari and Ferruccio Lamborghini. An episode never truly confirmed, yet handed down as the symbolic origin of a rivalry. True or not, this story is today regarded almost as established fact in the collective imagination, and it only deepens the myth of the Miura as an expression of vision and sheer determination.

This same Miura — which defined an era and won over the wider public not least through cinema — will now be among the protagonists of the Anantara Concorso Roma, scheduled from 16 to 19 April 2026. A unique opportunity to admire up close not merely a masterpiece of design and engineering, but a car that succeeded in fusing beauty, innovation, and collective imagination in a way that will never be repeated.
Among the most eagerly anticipated stars of the inaugural edition of the Anantara Concorso Roma, scheduled for 16–19 April 2026, will be Miura #3586 — ready to reveal itself in all its extraordinary splendour.