On April 28, 1916, he was born in a Small village in Italy The Ferruccio Lamborghini. As the eldest son of a rural family, Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini, was normally destined to take over the estates. But from an early age, young Ferruccio was more interested in her engineering than for agriculture.
He spent the afternoons working with the farm machinery and eventually persuaded Bologna’s best crew to hire him.
Thus, when World War II broke out, the Lamborghini he was an experienced and well-known engineer. When enlisted in the Italian Air Forcethey sent him to Rose with the 50th gross motorized squadron. These men were responsible for everything maintenance projects and repairing Italian army vehicles on the island, including tractors and lorries used to tow planes.
In time of war, the Lamborghini repaired vehicles belonging to Germansτους Italians and the British. And so, after the end of the war, the young engineer opened his first business in Rhodes: A small workshop.
In 1946, when the Italian government offered incentives to support the country’s economic recovery, it decided to return to Italy and do what it knew best: to open a workshop.
And while working on his business, he noticed that local farmers were going through a crisis. With the tractors he was repairing in Rhodes in mind, Lamborghini decided to build cheap tractorsusing parts from old military vehicles, so that small landowners can buy them.
The first vehicle he transformed was one Morris truck, for which he designed and implemented all the modifications. On February 3, 1948, on the feast of the patron saint of the city, he presented his creation and closed 11 orders.
Encouraged by this success, Lamborghini decided to risk everything, buying 1,000 Morris engines. With his father’s approval, he mortgaged the family farm.
And he took the risk. Ferruccio Lamborghini made a fortune on the tractors and it was done one of the most important industrialists of Italy.
In 1958, now rich, Lamborghini bought his first Ferrari. More would follow. But as he was not the best driver, he constantly burned the clutch. And that’s why he had to go to Maranello every now and then to replace him.
At one point, after his third or fourth visit, instead of returning his Ferrari to the factory for replacement, he decided to outsource it to his own engineer. And then, he discovered that the Ferrari clutch was similar to the one used by his company tractors.
Ferruccio Lamborghini was furious. His own clutch cost λι 10, but Ferrari charged him λι 1,000 for the replacement.
And so, when one day he met Enzo Ferrari, he said to him: “You make your beautiful cars with the spare parts of my tractors”.
“You are a tractor driver, a farmer. “You should not complain that you drive my cars, because they are the best cars in the world,” he replied.
“Oh, yes, I am a farmer! “I will show you how to make sports cars and I will make a sports car myself!” Said the angry Lamborghini.
After decided to make the best sports car in the world, he needed a logo that suited him. For this job, hire him famous graphic designer Paolo Rambaldiwho asked him about his personal characteristics.
“I am tamugno (which in the Bologna dialect means tough, strong, persistent) like a bull,” she told him.
From this answer and from Zodiac sign of Lamborghini, was born the famous brand with the bull.
Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini SpA was officially founded on October 30, 1963 and its first production car, the 350 GT, debuted at the 1964 Geneva Motor Show.
But it was the 1966 Lamborghini Miura that inspired two journalists who tried to come up with a new word to describe this car and what would earn it a place in this new category: Supercar.
In the early 1970s, the Lamborghini tractor business ran into financial problems and eventually the industrialist sold his stake to the sports car company and retired to his vineyard.
Automobili Lamborghini changed hands several times and was acquired by the German Volkswagen in the late 1990s, but has always continued to build high-performance cars.
Ferruccio Lamborghini died on February 20, 1993, at the age of 76.
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