Lamborghini?

[Second Gen]

Was trolling the Car rags online and saw this one.. Made me laugh (Yes a tractor)

 

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/just-listed-1960-lamborghini-5c-cingolato-tractor/

 

Yes a 40 BHP Lamborghini

Edited August 18, 2017 by Second Gen
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[Geeto67]

Pretty sure that's a lambo dude.

 

Farm Equipment post WWII is how Ferruccio Lamborghini made his money. The cars were literally a way to get back at Enzo Ferrari for being a dick to him.

 

The Company is still in business and still makes tractors, they just don't sell them here because our market is saturated:

http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-nd/

 

I'm not gonna lie....a gulf painted lambo tractor is sexy.

 

 

Porsche also made tractors until the 1960's.

[Forrest Gump 9]

Lamborghini original was a tractor company. The story was Lamborghini went to Ferrari and asked Enzo to build a green Ferrari. Enzo said "get lost tractor boy". Lamborghini went home and started building his green supercar. And that's how Lamborghini became a cr company.

[El Karacho1647545492]

Lamborghini original was a tractor company. The story was Lamborghini went to Ferrari and asked Enzo to build a green Ferrari. Enzo said "get lost tractor boy". Lamborghini went home and started building his green supercar. And that's how Lamborghini became a cr company.

 

I always thought it was that Ferruccio Lamborghini asked Enzo to modify the clutch in his car, and Enzo basically told him to leave the race cars to him, so Ferruccio modified it himself and then resolved to build a better race car.

[o0n8]

I always thought it was that Ferruccio Lamborghini asked Enzo to modify the clutch in his car, and Enzo basically told him to leave the race cars to him, so Ferruccio modified it himself and then resolved to build a better race car.

 

I thought he used one of his tractor clutches on his Ferrari was part of the story too

[Stretch]

I thought Ferruccio was a tractor then Enzo transformed him into a car

[Geeto67]

So a lot of people tell the story like it revolved around one incident. That Lamborghini approached Enzo and Enzo told him to fuck off. In reality though Lamborghini owned seversl ferraris, but the one that gave him fits was a 1958 250 GT. The car was plagued with some quality control issues, was too noisy, and had its clutch replaced by the Ferrari factory several times in the span of a year.

 

The legend is that ferruccio replaced the clutch with tractor parts and then went to Enzo with his fix and Enzo insulted him. But really Enzo was already aware of ferruccio's dissatisfaction with the car because the car kept coming back for work with a laundry list of complaints.

 

Bob Wallace and other employees have said that the legendary exchange is just a legend and the two never met. What supposedly happened is that Lamborghini had some of his tractor engineers design and make a street clutch for the 250 GT. In the 1950's all the Ferrari road cars were homolgation specials and were race prepped out of the box by 1950's standards. This included an HD clutch that was finicky, had a hard pedal, and a short lifespan. Ferruccio designed a softer clutch to make the car more road friendly and approached Ferrari through the proper channels about being a supplier for the road car clutches. Enzo, who saw road cars as just a revenue stream to fund racing wanted to keep mfg trim at the time and didn't see the need for the added expense of having separate parts for the road cars from his race cars, and declined.

 

By this time Ferruccio had already realized that Ferrari was never going to modify the 250 GT to suit him And was already modifying it himself. Halfway through he realized that he disliked so much about the Ferrari and so many changes were necessary that he might as well make a new car, using the 250 GT as his design mule/prototype platform. This car was the 350 GT.

[BDHG940]

That tractor will bring some money