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Classic!!!

 

I may just be learning to count but I see 3 pedals in this period photos...
http://www.400gt.com/photos/gtv/IMG_4391.jpg

 

Thanks to teach me counting Glen...Coltrin's picture was darker and only one peadl-throttle was noticeable...so by know I can count up to 3 for the pedals and then to 6 for Weber carbs and to 12 for cylinders...

 

Fred,
we all know that 400 GT 2+2 is running instead of being pushed like 350 GTV...even with 3 pedals !

 

after resti, driven in the 90's on the road
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Hope this will happen again in 2013...for the 50th Anniversary !

 

this magazine had a nice GTV article on the restoration

with nice pics

http://cgi.ebay.it/AUTOCAPITAL-7-1990-LAMBORGHINI-350-GTV-MERCEDES-190-EV_W0QQitemZ230411471397QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRiviste_e_Giornali?hash=item35a5980a25

 

in this 1991 lamborghini book there are a lot of images and infos on the (then) freshly restored 350 GTV
it was then owned by EmilianAuto's Bernardoni i think
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Hello,

I would like to thank Emilio for the very kind words about my humble self and yes, Joe, my writings are hopefully a better read in Italian....English/French/German translations in my books were not done by me and might have been less than perfect. Sorry about that.

The GTV restoration was quite tricky, especially finding its original engine (it was still at Lamborghini but separated from the car.) No, I didn't work on the car, I arranged most of the work and it got out of hand only at the end (I didn't choose the colour, for example). Now the GTV is being restored by a very, very good old friend.....

I am not writing books about Lamborghini anymore: I published my last one 4 months ago, (Italian only, to avoid translation problems) as the German owners of Lamborghini don't like me too much. I gather it's because I love so much the good old days of Ferruccio/ Giampaolo/ Ubaldo/ Valentino/ Orazio/ Vittorio/ Giuseppe and I never interviewed today's CEO.

I am not really unemployed, though, I am an eye surgeon/ophthalmologist . Sadly, I don't have much free time nowadays to chat with old Lamborghini friends. Still, I love classic Lamborghinis and find it difficult, sometimes, to resist the temptation to buy a 400GT, especially ow that I have sold all my Porsches, Luftgekuhlt. Wasserwerk, Turbos and all.

It's good to read your messages and feel your passion about classic Lamborghinis. It makes me relive some of the nice enthusiastic atmosphere of those old days....

Thanks!

Stefano

PS I never pretended to be as good as Phil Hill or Paul Frére (incidentally, a very good friend but definitely NOT a Lamborghini lover) as a test driver. They were world-class drivers and, especially Frére, formidable writers and gentlemen. But I have test-driven hundreds of high-end sports cars since 30+yrs, never crashed one, and can write about them, at least in Italian..... ;-))))

 

Emilio, can I buy this book somewhere; I always wanted one but never found so far...

 

Thats an rare book, but i have seen it 2 times on ebay this year.

Btw, this book was my first ebay purchase, back in 2002

 

dear Stefano

tks you for your books and articles:i really enjoied reading them since i was just a small kid

just got an other one on e bay today: lamborghini famous car factory
i also have a lot of Autocapital magazines with your old articles

i stopped buyng autocapital after some time you left it ...today it looks like a fashion magazine...sad !

i hope we can meet one day and please buy that 400!

ps: we have a common friend Alex C., here in Italy
he owned a red 250 urraco then i think

 

hi Raymond:
i got it from an italian book collector


let me see if i can find an other

 

I thought I read in an old issue of England's CAR magazine that some outsider
had walked into the factory decades after the GTV was built and discovered it a-molderin' away and arranged to buy it but the impression I'm getting here in these posts is that 00001
was known to a local Lamborghini dealer, Romano Bernadoni and he was the one who bought it. Has it been published what he paid (please in US dollars)?
After him was it the Japanese Noritake?
Then who?

Side note: The chrome Lamborghini script with Ferrucio's name is a great piece of industrial design product placement. I don't think it was ever used on a production Lambo though, was it?


Also as regarding getting a "pushmobile" running I have been researching others of similar ilk like the Lotus ETNA and Pininfarina PININ and apparently such an enterprise can be hugely expensive because you are basically having to become an automotive engineer to finish the engineering that was originally only mocked up enough to put in a show. Both buyers of those cars failed to reach reserves in auctions that would cover their expenses.

It is true that James G. did achieve success with making the Dino Competitzione show car into an operational road car but Pininfarina helped him a lot since he was spending a lot on his modern day P4/5 at the time. SInce he was not bringing it to the road to sell, his expenses are not so pertinent as those who try to take a concept car and make it a running car to sell. It's a dream many dream of but few are qualified to take it on...

Appreciate any comments.

 

I didn't get a close look at the Ford Shelby GR-1 when it sold for $82K a few years ago, but I myself had visions of finding a way to make it a driving car.

2005 Ford Shelby GR-1 Concept Platform Model | Monterey 2011 | RM AUCTIONS

 

Lamborghini 350 GTV will be displayed at the Schloss Bensberg Classics, celebrating 50 years of Lamborghini:

Lamborghini celebrates its 50th birthday with a special exhibition at Schloss Bensberg Classics.
Bensberg, June 2013
Besides the 350 GTV, the first ever Lamborghini, we can also expect the 400 GT Flying Star, a two-door sports estate from 1966, the Miura Roadster, which has already thrilled the general public and jury at the 2011 Concours d’Elégance, the Marzal, a prototype from 1967 with glass gull-wing doors and ultra-flat front end, and the Bravo, the ‘little brother’ of the Countach, which was unveiled in 1974, but never actually went into production
www.sbc2013.com/news.html#c2506
www.sbc2013.com/news.html#c2462

 

Wow, looks like Albert needs a huge trailer...

 

Hi Raymond,

I'd be surprised if Albert doesn't have a unique Lamborghini Factory trailer by now

he seems to be trying to collect every other one off vehicle!

 

50th Anniversary, GTV/350GTS story in the German "Oldtimer Markt" magazine:
Oldtimer Markt - 7/2013 | www.oldtimer-markt.de

 

At what point was the GTV a Dubai registered car?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400345586772708&set=a.249852281822040.1073741827.247211982086070&type=1&relevant_count=1

Background looks pretty recent.

 

This is a "regular" 350gt so probably never in my estimation...

 

Color is looking the same as the GTV but it's not the GTV.