Interesting video interview with restorer Joseph DeMeo that has a few interesting sections on the aquamarine 350GT that was at Pebble last year. (Note also the original 400GT manual on his coffee table )
Came across this interesting anecdote from one of the comments on Iain Tyrrell's recent 350GT video. "An elderly friend of mine had a new one. He told me a story of when he was getting the car serviced at the factory. Ferrucio was talking to him. My friend said to Ferrucio, " you're not a gentleman". Asked by Ferrucio how he could suggest such a thing, my friend pointed out that there was no key on the passengers door. This prevented him from being able to unlock and open the door for a lady. He had to get inside the car first. Apparently Ferrucio immediately called over the factory manager and told him that all future cars were to be fitted with passenger door locks." From a quick google search, it looks like the late production 400GT 2+2's were the first with passenger locks. Who knows if the story is true but its somewhat interesting nonetheless. Image Unavailable, Please Login
It totally makes sense. Boutique manufactures like Lamborghini had to trim a few $$$ here and there. The lock probably cost in today's dollars around 25 bucks. 25 bucks x the 1000 cars ( he thought he would build, I know, I counted the total Lamborghini production up, years ago, IIRC from the beginning to the end of the Diablo was ~ 25k units or less.), was an easy low hanging fruit.
