Happy birthday Sandie! But where's your Miura?

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When the motion picture ‘Made in Dagenham’ came out in 2010, we learned that a girl named Sandra Ann Goodrich was one of many who'd been sewing Cortina seat covers. This all before she got scouted as a singer and became quite a lot better known as Sandie Shaw. And once in the centre of the swinging sixties in London and with hits in Europe, the US and South America, performances behind the Iron Curtain and in pre-revolutionary Iran, a modest Ford Cortina was not the car to have. In 1967 Sandie appeared with what we now call the world’s first supercar: a Lamborghini Miura S.

She showed it right in front of her own boutique shop in London and when asked gladly posed on its bonnet. It was also the year she won the Eurovision song contest for the UK, began the Sandie Shaw fashion label and hosted her own television show - The Sandie Shaw Supplement. The top of her career? Several marriages, more hits and highlights followed but we don’t think Sandie kept the Miura for long. Hey, birthday girl, what happened to it? You do remember, do you? How can I forget you? When there is always there to remind me.

(Words Jeroen Booij, picture courtesy Shavian Enterprises)
 

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