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Ferrucio Lamborghini
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Early in his twenties the World War 2 broke out and served his country by working at the an Italian air force at Rhodes repairing vehicles. At the end of World War 2 he where more or less forced to continue work on Allied vehicles until 1946. When he finally got home he began to repair broken tractors in Italy still using parts from military vehicles. This was how he started his tractor factory which soon made him a very successful businessman. He was a man
who understood to enjoy life and because of his interest in auto-mobiles especially fast ones he bought several Ferrari's during the years.
But back in those days the Ferrari's for the road where not build in a proper way. Many Ferrari owners were unsatisfied with their cars but they did not dare to complain because they then might not be aloud to buy one. The reason for the poor service was that Enzo Ferrari spent all his energy with his racing program and that the road going cars where just made to get money for development of his racing cars.
In the early sixties Ferrucio Lamborghini owned a Ferrari 250 GT and though he had had it repaired several times they never seemed to repair it properly. And this is where the legend of Lamborghini began.
One time when Ferrucio Lamborghini had just got his Ferrari back from the factory where they should repair the clutch they still hadn't solved the problem so Ferrucio himself went to pay Enzo Ferrari a visit.
So he went to the factory and told Enzo a thing or two about what he thought of him and his miserable cars.
Enzo answered back that Ferrucio was just a simple peasant with no knowledge at all about full blood exotic sports cars.
After some arguing Ferrucio Lamborghini decided that he would beat Enzo where it hurt the most by building his own car. So he hired the best men he could find and began his adventure of building the perfect GT car. Not only would he make them better and faster but he also wanted to listen to his customers and help them with any trouble they might have with their cars.
He started by building up a new factory and the company "Lamborghini Automobili" only 15 km. from Ferrari's factory. He started on his new car in a corner of his tractor factory before his car factory was ready spending almost every hour developing his car. He worked very close with his employees because he wanted to be a part of every aspect in the development and was often the last man to turn off the lights.
Late in October 1963 he first car was ready the Lamborghini 350 GTV.
This however was just a prototype and the first production car did not arrive until March 1964 with the
350 GT that showed the hole world that Ferrari could be beaten.
This was how it all began but there has been build many Lamborghini's since then .