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Story Time with Ferruccio Lamborghini-Some Interesting Pearls c. 1981


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A Swedish friend and chief creative designer of my YouTUBE channel (Alex aka @aalttomotive) shared this with me from a Lamborghini interest group.  Its translated & posted by Eric Andersson - Lamborghini Club Svezia.  I love these kinds of write up with the master himself.  Really cool to hear Ferruccio himself talk about design, a candid & very human discussion about why he didn't enter racing (worried about his son--recall some of deaths that happened around these times).  Interview was in 1981.  A great read.

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Was great to hear from Ferruccio directly on the Urraco-Dino 308 GT/4 connection.....confirms that the Dino 308 GT/4 for all intents and purposes is a Ferrari with Lamborghini styling. 

I've always read that Enzo Ferrari had a mock up that allowed him to modify the wheelbase and a few other dimensions of the Dino in the prototype phase, so it's likely that what we know now as the 308 GT/4 would have looked slightly different as an Urraco had Ferruccio accepted it. 

All that's left of the mystique is why Enzo went to Bertone for his 2+2 car and not Pininfarina? I've read some things, but nothing was ever conclusive. And surely he knew he had a Lamborghini on his hands and still accepted the design to be built for production. :shock:

 

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