Imagine you’re the new guy on the job, having landed the gig after hounding the owner for months to hire you. What do you do to make an impression? If the job is at Curated, the vintage car dealership in Miami that regularly hunts down the coolest cars with stories worth telling, the first thing you do as a newbie sales associate is go out and find some cool cars. For one such employee, it ended with him striking gold — he found his employer’s dad’s 1971 Lamborghini Miura S with some very specific details, tucked away in a garage in California, having been off the road for nearly 30 years.
This sales associate, Ross, found the car through some digging, and since Curated is always in the market for vintage Lamborghinis and Ferraris, it immediately piqued interest. The more the team found out about the car, the more Curated-founder John Temerian began to wonder if it could be a Miura that his dad once owned in the early ‘70s as part of their automotive garage that was known for servicing high-end Italian exotics.
The details lined up. Temerian Sr.’s Miura was a red car with chrome hood mirrors, with full black leather interiors, factory AC, in factory North American spec with a 200mph speedo. His father had owned that exact specification back in the 1970s. The combination was unusual enough to make him suspicious. Could it possibly be the same car his dad drove as a teenager in Massachusetts over 55 years ago?
The odds seemed impossibly small. But something told John to dig deeper. He purchased the car without telling his father and had it shipped to Miami. Then he invited his dad to fly in and see it, documenting the entire thing on video. John’s father walked up to the Miura, knowing he needed to find one specific detail. Not a VIN number scratched into the chassis. Not a signature hidden away somewhere. He was looking for an alarm lock mounted on the side of the hood. His own father, John’s grandfather, had put it there decades earlier when the car came through the family garage.
The moment he saw that lock, he knew. This was his car. The one he drove to high school. The one he bought for a few thousand dollars as a 16-year-old. Two weeks later, he found an old photograph that confirmed the entire story.
The teenage Lamborghini owner later sold that Miura and bought others over the years, never realizing one of them was truly unique with its red paint, black leather, and chrome mirrors.
Five decades passed before his own son accidentally stumbled across it on social media and brought it home. Now the car that represented a teenager’s dreams in 1970s Massachusetts sits in Miami, back with the family that installed an alarm system that would one day prove its identity.
