Ferruccio Lamborghini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (28 April 1916 – 20 February 1993) was an Italian automobile designer and industrialist who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant’Agata Bolognese. Born to grape farmers in Renazzo, within the municipality of Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy’s post-WWII economic boom. In 1959, he opened an oil burner factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing air conditioning equipment. Lamborghini founded a fourth company, Lamborghini Oleodinamica, in 1969 after creating Automobili Lamborghini in 1963. Lamborghini sold off many of his interests by the late 1970s and retired to an estate in Umbria, where he pursued winemaking. We celebrate his Birthday with a Lamborghini Countach the most iconic and recognised Lamborghini car. It first gained notoriety through the movie „Cannonball Run“ where a red Countach was driven by two attractive scantily dressed women to use their charms on the male police officers, until they met a lady officer on a motorbike. With the Countach Ferruccio Lamborghini broke from tradition, naming the Countach not for a bull, but for „contacc“, a Piedmontese exclamation of astonishment…
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