I am a history buff researching various cars. I saw a picture of Giorgetto Giugiaro and son looking at the burned out hulk of the 1970 show car the Tapiro. I heard two rumors, back in 1970 I heard when it was shown in mexico the president of Mexico appropriated it. But I have never seen pictures of him with the car so I'll go with Rumor No. 2 that a Spanish industrialist owned it and it caught fire.
So what I want to know is:

who is the industrialist?
What was the name of his company?
Was the car firebombed, or a bomb put in it?
Was the owner injured?
What did he pay for the car when he bought it?
What was the wreck sold for back to the Giugiaros?

I am never clear on if VW owns Porsche or the other way around but theGiugiaros work for VW now but that doesn't mean VW would pay for the restoration of a car badged Porsche. Does any 914 owner want to estimate what it would cost to restore it? I'm guessing $400,000. The only saving grace I can say is that the Aston Marin DB4GT done by Giugiaro sold for $5 million at auction but that was a rare chassis even without the Giugiaro designed one off body. Like to hear opinions and some facts on the flame in Spain.
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Looks like a DeLorean?
Is this it?

a couple of years back I read a note, that the bomb attak failed, because the owner wasn't in the car, the moment it detonated

can't remember where I read this - and of course can't guarantee if correct ...

The search here does work ...

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=Search&f=2

Type in "Tapiro" as the keyword (without the quotes), select "All Forums" under "Search Where" and hit the "Perform the search" button.

Plenty of threads to read through ...