The Urraco was initially produced to fill a void in Lamborghini’s lineup below the Miura, squaring off against the Ferrari Dino and Maserati Merak.

It has long been considered one of the most underrated performance cars to emerge from the hallowed Lamborghini works at Sant’Agata Bolognese in central Italy.

It debuted at the 1970 Turin Salon and was penned by Bertone’s Marcello Gandini, who was best known at the time for the Miura, but whose status as a Lamborghini stylist was cemented with the Countach that followed.

Lamborghini created three versions the Urraco, all of which were powered by variants of the automaker’s small V-8 engine.

At its debut, it featured the compact 2.5-liter unit in the P250, which was a figure that grew to the P300’s 3.0-liter unit in 1974.

A 2.0-liter model, dubbed the P200, was created for the Italian market, where a higher tax was levied on larger-displacement engines.

This Urraco is one of the last P250 models manufactured, of which only 520 total w...