As the story goes, a tractor manufacturer sometime before 1963 went to get service on the clutch of the new Ferrari he had recently purchased and thus began the evolution of Automobili Lamborghini.
Completely insulted by the complaint of the clutch quality, Enzo Ferrari at the Ferrari factory told Ferruccio Lamborghini to go home and drive his tractors because he sure knew nothing about driving cars.
This was the catalyst to set Lamborghini on a path to develop his own sports car … which he vowed would be much superior to the Ferrari …. and he also vowed he would never own a Ferrari again. He fixed the clutch on his Ferrari by installing a much stronger clutch from his tractor warehouse when ….. upon taking apart the Ferrari clutch he found out it was made by the same manufacturer that supplied his tractor clutches.
After rounding up the men he needed in the design of his new sports car … he introduced the prototype of the Lamborghini 350GTV in 1963 at the Turin Auto Show with the bull as the mark of his car, the sign of the Taurus under which Lamborghini was born. Read the rest of this entry »