Ferruccio Lamborghini

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Ferruccio Lamborghini (Italian pronunciation: [ferrutto lamborni]; 28 April 1916 – 20 February 1993) was an Italian automobile designer, engineer, manufacturer, winemaker, and businessman who founded Automobili Lamborghini, a high-end sports car manufacturer in Sant'Agata Bolognese.

Born to grape farmers in Renazzo, from Cento, Emilia-Romagna province, where his mechanical knowledge led him to join Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the midst of Italy's post-WWII economic boom. He started Lamborghini Bruciatori, an oil burner manufacturer who later expanded into air conditioning equipment manufacturing.

Lamborghini established Lamborghini Oleodinamica in 1969 after creating Automobili Lamborghini in 1963. Lamborghini sold off many of his passions by the late 1970s and retired to an estate in Umbria, where he pursued winemaking.

Early life

Ferruccio Lamborghini was born in Renazzo di Cento, province of Ferrara, Northern Italy, on April 28, 1916 to viticulturists Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini. Ferruccio was baptised as a Roman Catholic four days later on May 2nd, according to his baptismal certificate.

Lamborghini, as a young man, was attracted more to farming equipment than to the farming lifestyle as a whole. Lamborghini studied at the Fratelli Taddia technical institute near Bologna, following his passion for mechanics. He was drafted into the Italian Royal Air Force in 1940, where he served as a mechanic at the Italian garrison on the island of Rhodes (territory of the Kingdom of Italy since 1911), becoming the head of the vehicle maintenance unit. Lamborghini was arrested in prison when the island fell to the United Kingdom at the end of the war in 1945, and it was not expected to return home until next year. He married, but his mother died in 1947 after giving birth to his first child, a boy named Tonino.

Lamborghini opened a garage in Pieve di Cento after World War II. Lamborghini converted an old Fiat Topolino he had purchased (the first of many he would own over the years) in his spare time, making tractors, which would be the first Lamborghinis he would build. In the 1948 Mille Miglia, he converted the humble city car into a roaring 750-cc open-top two-seater. His participation came to an end after 1,100 kilometers (680 mi) when he pulled the car into the side of a restaurant in Turin's town of Fiano.

Ferruccio Lamborghini recognised an burgeoning market in post-war Italy dedicated to agricultural and industrial revival. Lamborghini designed the first of his "Carioca" tractors, which were based on Morris trucks' six-cylinder petrol engines, using parts from military vehicle engines and differentials from ARAR centres.

Lamborghini augmented the Morris engines with a fuel atomizer of his own design, allowing the vehicles to be started with petrol and then switch to cheaper diesel fuel as petrol prices were prohibitively expensive in Italy. Lamborghini Trattori was born and started producing tractors after the initial success of the Carioca and Lamborghini.

On June 7, 1968, a Riva Aquarama Lamborghini (Hull #278) was registered and delivered to Lamborghini. The boat was the first and only one to have two Lamborghini engines, and it had special side railing for those who wanted to go back to during waterskiing and record attempts. Lamborghini's demands were accommodated in the engine compartment, and a special open exhaust was created to suit Lamborghini's requirements.

He owned the boat for more than 20 years until selling it to Angelo Merli, a close friend.

Lamborghini's increasing fortune enabled him to buy more expensive cars than the tiny Fiats he had tinkered with during his youth. He owned Alfa Romeos and Lancias in the early 1950s, but at one point he had enough cars to use a new one every day of the week, including a Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a Jaguar E-Type coupé, and two Maserati 3500 GTs. "Adolfo Orsi, then the Maserati's owner, had a lot of admiration for him": he had started life as a poor boy, like myself. However, I did not like his cars much. They were ill and did not really go fast."

Lamborghini bought a Ferrari 250 GT, a two-seat coupé built by coachbuilder Pininfarina, in 1958. He went on to buy many more over the years, including a Scaglietti-designed 250 GT SWB Berlinetta and a 250 GT2+2 four-seater. Lamborghini thought Ferrari's cars were fine, but they were too crowded and rough to be legitimate road cars. They were referred to as repurposed track cars with poorly designed interiors, according to Mr.

Lamborghini found that Ferrari's cars were fitted with inferior clutches and necessitated continuous trips to Maranello for repairs; technicians would lock the car away for several hours to do the job, much to Lamborghini's annoyance. He had previously expressed disappointment with Ferrari's after-sales service, which he regarded as substandard. Lamborghini piqued Enzo Ferrari's notice, but Modenan, a zealously patriotic Modenan, dismissed him. Lamborghini earned the opportunity to develop the best touring car for him after successfully upgrading one of his personally owned Ferrari 250 GTs to outperform stock models. Lamborghini thought a grand tourer should have attributes that were missing in Ferrari's range, including high reliability without sacrificing traceability, ride quality, and interior appointments. Lamborghini, a smart businessman, knew that if the components used in his tractors were changed to a high-performance exotic car instead, he would double the profit.

Later life

Lamborghini retired from industry in 1974 and returned to a 3 km2 (740 acres) farm in Castiglione del Lago, a town in central Italy's Umbria region. Lamborghini, who returned to his farm roots, is delighted to hunt and produce his own wines. Lamborghini also built his own golf course, while still focusing on several company priorities.

At age 58, Lamborghini fathered a child, Patrizia.

Lamborghini died at Silvestrini Hospital in Perugia on February 20, 1993, at the age of 76 years old, just 76 years old. Lamborghini is buried in Renazzo's cemetery.

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