{"id":68401,"date":"2021-04-28T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=68401"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:26:24","slug":"105th-birthday-of-ferruccio-lamborghini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/105th-birthday-of-ferruccio-lamborghini\/","title":{"rendered":"105th Birthday of Ferruccio Lamborghini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He built tractors, argued with Enzo Ferrari and then produced his own sports cars. We are talking, of course, about Ferruccio Lamborghini, who was born 105 years ago today in the small village of Renazzo near Cento near Bologna. After growing up on his parents’ farm, which he was supposed to have taken over, he received an apprenticeship contract in a mechanical workshop in Bologna. Later he took up technical studies there. During World War 2, he was drafted into the Italian army and assigned to repair military vehicles on the Greek island of Rhodes. In the post-war period he opened a small workshop first in Rhodes and later in 1946 in Cento. Soon he was buying up old military trucks cheaply all over Italy and converting them into agricultural tractors. This business idea developed splendidly and led him to found the Lamborghini Trattori company in 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Help for the rural population in Italy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Supposedly, he developed the idea of building tractors on his honeymoon. Driving through the Italian countryside, he saw the hardships people faced working in the fields after the war. His inexpensive tractors, which were available from 1952 as in-house designs with two-, three- or four-cylinder engines, were able to help. In addition, he repeatedly incorporated further developments into production. These included direct fuel injection and air cooling for the engines as early as 1954. In the years that followed, Ferruccio expanded his company structure to include ‘Lamborghini Bruciatori’ for the production of air conditioning and heating systems. Added to this was a division in which he devoted himself to a boyhood dream. He wanted to develop and produce his own helicopters. However, he didn’t obtain the necessary permits for this from the Italian state. Through his two companies, Ferruccio Lamborghini was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Italy. He was thus able to fulfill many a dream and, among other things, put a Ferrari in his garage at home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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