It’s a story that begins as a crazy challenge and became a Legend.

Origins

Ferruccio Lamborghini comes to the world in 1916 at 30 km from Modena, specifically Renazzo Cento.
He comes from a family who made his fortune in agriculture. Early on, he showed skill and a passion for mechanics. Indeed, he graduated from the Technological Institute of Bologna in 1939.
During the War, he worked also as a prisoner on the island of Rhodes in the fleet maintenance and aviation.

Lamborghini tractors

He bases his release from Lamborghini Trattoria in his hometown recovering on military equipment to the abandonment of what to do with tractors with mechanical strength and could not be doubted.
The success of this company puts it in third place for this type of vehicles behind Fiat and Massey Ferguson in Italy.

But here it is: as a lover of mechanics and an impeccable design, he noted increasing weaknesses of these cars in its opinion, and their reliability is the engine, including clutch and the gearbox of his Ferrari, in particular, it poses more problems.
Indeed, he must return to Maranello, to replace the defective gearbox regularly its 250 GT.

Note: We‘ve known that Ferrari has made massive progress ….

Genesis of the historic rivalry of two titans

Logically, one day he makes the following remark
directly to Enzo Ferrari:

Either the gearbox of his car was a deafening noise and the design of that Ferrari was not the best bill to view engine and the passenger was suffering from a lack of finishing.

Ferrari up for what he said he had only to do better.

“You know how to drive a tractor, but you do not know conduct a Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari if I had not been firmly told that meanness on a day when I complained of intractable problems on my Ferrari, I would perhaps never built my car “..

Lamborghini, knowing that nobody would be able to offer the perfect car, then decided the design itself.

The manufacturer to the “caballero” thought he had little to fear from a bull farm, no doubt.

The result proved that he was wrong to challenge his friend.

In any case, it was the birth of a historic rivalry between Enzo Ferrari and Ferruccio Lamborghini.

The car is about Ferruccio Lamborghini as

It must be a perfect reliability and an impeccable finish.

To do so, he dissects a Ferrari 250 GT to improve the design by changing the engine cylinder head on one hand and by grafting six twin carburetors on the twelve-cylinder V, on the other.

Birth of the firm Lamborghini

On July 1, 1963, Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini‘s born in Santa Agata Bolognese of.
He then surrounded himself collaborating genius Giotto Bizzarrini, the creator of the F 250 engine GTO and Gian Paolo Dallara engineer from Mazerati (chassis design)

Birth of the first Lamborghini

Ferruccio Lamborghini was therefore definitely not a manufacturer of tractors, he proved with the prototype of 1963, the 350GTV, he also had a revolutionary vision of the Supercar exception and had a design purist terms of technological achievement and futuristic design.

Here opinions differ as to the origin of the famous logo of a Bull: zodiac sign, passion for bullfighting (personally I doubt it), or just love animals …

A passion for exceptional cars

Meanwhile, Ferruccio Lamborghini began a career as a trainer car, which ends in 1948, after a crash with his Fiat 500 Tipolino.

But this does not prevent him from continuing as an amateur to appreciate the beautiful racing cars like Jaguar, Aston Martin, Maserati and Ferrari.

The prototype 350 GTV

In 1964, he launched the Lamborghini 350 GT, with technical solutions boldest and most sophisticated and expensive well above its rival elites at the time, however without success for this new unknown brand (V12 - 3 , 5 Liter - 4 camshaft head - 6 Weber carburetors - 360 hp - 200 in 1965 in direct competition with Ferrari).


The 350 GT

Lamborghini legend

In 1966, Ferruccio Lamborghini access to celebrity overnight at manufacturers of prestige with the Lamborghini Miuria designed by Bertone (revolutionary - V12 - 350 hp - 280 km / h - the fastest car in the world at the time) Lamborghini 400 GT (rear transverse engine 4 Liters - 290 km / h)

Lamborghini has been entered in the Legend in 1971, finally, through the Countach prototype at the Geneva show, which was marketed from 1974.

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