Florida man tracked down lost Lamborghini prototype and found it in the Arctic Circle of all places

This Florida man made the wildest discovery when he managed to track down a lost Lamborghini prototype that he found in the Arctic Circle of all places.

He tracked down this lost Lamborghini prototype that disappeared from the Lambo factory decades ago…and found it sitting untouched inside the Arctic Circle.

The car was the Diablo SE30 prototype, the very first of its kind and one of the most significant pieces of Lamborghini history.

What began as a simple tip turned into an international chase that ended in one of the coldest places on Earth.

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The chase to find the lost Lamborghini

This Florida-based supercar collector, John Temerian, founder of Curated, received a message from a former Lamborghini employee who claimed the original Diablo SE30 prototype still existed.

Known as chassis 0000 P0, the car was built in 1993 to celebrate Lamborghini’s 30th anniversary and mark a new era of lightweight, race-inspired design.

It was supposed to stay in the company museum, but was sold in the late 1990s to a racing executive called Stefan Ratel before it completely vanished.

Years later, Temerian traced it to Sweden, where car ownership records are public and, after years of dead ends, a Swedish enthusiast named Camille sent him photos of a purple Diablo covered in boxes in a small garage.

Temerian sent Inspector Chip Davis to verify the car’s identity.

The location turned out to be nowhere near Stockholm, but far North in the Arctic Circle, a 16-hour drive through snow and ice.

When Davis finally arrived, he found the lost prototype covered in dust, flat tyres and all, but remarkably intact.

The Arctic Circle froze a piece of Lambo history

The inspection revealed that the car combined elements from two prototypes, the Diablo SE30 and an earlier experimental model known as the XL30.

The XL30 had been developed during Lamborghini’s first experiments with carbon fiber under the legendary Horacio Pagani.

Some of the car’s parts were even made of wood, typical of early factory prototypes before they’re made out of proper materials in the real thing.

When Temerian shipped it to Miami, his team confirmed it was the missing link in Lamborghini’s story.

Swedish media later reported that Zlatan Ibrahimović himself had also tried to buy the car, but Temerian closed the deal first, realizing what a huge deal it was.

What he brought home was more than just a normal barn find; it was a historic Lamborghini Diablo SE30 prototype, frozen in time in the Arctic, now restored and back to glory, enjoying the red-hot Miami sun.

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