350/400GT thread

I don't agree with you on this; I'll show you the brochure when we meet ...
It's much more clear than the attached scan

 

maybe, as they seem to be popping up everywhere lately, complete with the best stories

 

How can you conclude it is a 400 GT ? just because of the dual headlights ??? Plenty 350 GT got that upgrade just because it works better in night...

I have several pictures with 2 tone badges... and I have also a "source" which explained why there is a diversity of badges on the early cars...

 

please, feel free to share. End the confusion and the assuming!

Let us just hope that your "source" isn't a person involved at the time, with 50 years old memories ...

 

So you are saying that the 2 tone badges are noticeably smaller in size than the black ones ?
So much that you can see it (the difference in size) in pictures with the complete car on it ?

 

No Jasper, size is close, I had once the opportunity to look at 2 cars in the same collection with different badge.

* The logo was design by Rambaldi (if I have good memory, and I cannot check my docs as I'm in Geneva).
* At first : the badges were not produced by Automobili, but by a contractor.
* badges were also made for tractors before the cars...
* Several badges of a limited production were fitted on cars built and to be sold & delivered later.
* According to these 1st customers, some of them keep it or had it replace by another one from that 1st limited production.
* Finally Ferruccio decided it will be the black one to produce massively.
* My sources are "triple crossed" with some people working at factory, yes, but also with people/period importers I had the opportunity to interview. So, it is not a coicidence if they explained the same story and if there are some period pictures confirming it.

Like many others stories, you will read this in my book in 2016 when released...

 

thanks for sharing the picture. This one is #0105 , another early car

 

As I said, it is not a 400 GT... but a very very early 350 GT !

 

1009 - the last Touring car in Brisbane yesterday.

John
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found a picture in a book of this white? (or light blue?) 350GT with a red/white badge.
taken at Villa D'Este 'recently' ...
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#0106

 

another pic from a book, an early 350GT on London Motorshow (1963? or 1964?)
Clearly showing a two-tone badge, outside the factory.
So 'my' old Lambo workers story has proved to be wrong herewith.

could this also be #0106 ?
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This must be #101? The badge doesn't seem to have any "filling" on the Bull, looks more concave.

Here is Another pic.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/138671854-post382.html

 

Have you shoot pics of all these Lambo ?

I would like to see the green Espada...

 

Olivier, I shall check when I get home. I am sure I have a couple. I will post them over on the Espada thread.

John

 

October 1964.

 

I'm organizing a timeline of Lamborghini production cars, to be held at St James's Palace Concours of Elegance, central London, September 7th (Concours of Elegance 2013 - St James?s Concours of Elegance).

The only 350GT in the UK is currently out of action, and sadly the factory have declined a request for assistance. If you have a 350GT or know anyone who I could potentially approach, could you pm me?

Thanks
Graham, LCUK

 

Here is some more information about the Lamborghini display......

UK'S PREMIER CONCOURS OF ELEGANCE

 

Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 als Sportwagen/Coupé in Villejust

High price for a 400GT2+2!

 

Thoughts on this one?
1967 Lamborghini 400 GT Interim | Gooding & Company

 

Your MUCH better off with the earlier aluminum cars. This was a huge part of the allure of his first cars. Not many 60's Italian GT alloy cars period, and these are legendary ones. Seems to still be out of the true collectors wheelhouse but I think that will change with time.

I don't understand the intrigue of the Interim. But that's just me...

Remember there are a number of steel body 350GT's around as well.

 

Looks very sweet - one of very few Interim and has awesome and serious history it seems.

What is it worth?

 

Here's a picture of it http://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/autos/learning-fly-lamborghini-400gt-flying-star-ii-touring

Maybe that picture was from when it was for sale in England in 1999. Does anyone know for what price back then? It was apparently the last work of Carrozzeria Touring before they closed (now open again under new management).

I had previously assumed that the car was sold by the coachbuilder but now it looks like it has had a couple of private owners. Beware--there is a replica out there by Signor Giordanengo, I don' t know the SN of the real car which was apparently owned by Jacques Quoirez in France for some time.

Like to hear if the original had its nobody-wants-it-because-nobody-knew-what-it-was period, as I have missed a few of these one-off cars myself because I didn't know what it was and passed on it.

 

never heard of that... can you provide more details ?

 

Are these Borranis for a 350GT/400GT?