Ferruccio Lamborghini was born on April 28, 1916, to viticulturists Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini, in house number 22 in Renazzo di Cento, a frazione of the comune of Cento, in the Province of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. According to his baptismal certificate, he was baptised four days later, on May 2. The young Lamborghini was drawn to the farming machinery rather than the farming lifestyle itself, and he studied at the Fratelli Taddia technical institute near Bologna.[Notes 1] In 1940, he was drafted into the Regia Areonautica Royal Italian Air Force, where he served as a mechanic at the Italian garrison on the island of Rhodes[Rodi] territory of the Kingdom of Italy since 1911, after the Italian -Turkish war, becoming the supervisor of the vehicle maintenance unit.[Notes 2] Lamborghini was taken prisoner when the island fell to the British at the end of the war in 1945, and was not able to return home until the next year. He married, but his wife died in 1947 while giving birth to his first child, a boy named Antonio.
Lamborghini Ferruccio
After the war, Lamborghini opened a garage in Pieve di Cento. In his spare time, Lamborghini modified an old Fiat Topolino he had purchased, the first of many that he would own over the years. He made use of his mechanical abilities to transform the homely city car into a roaring 750-cc open-top two-seater, and entered the car in the 1948 Mille Miglia. His participation ended after 700 miles (1,100 km) when he ran the car into the side of a restaurant in the town of Fiano, in Turin. As a result, Lamborghini lost his enthusiasm for motor racing, a sentiment that would endure for many years to come.
Lamborghini Ferruccio
For years, Italy's industrial output had been dedicated to the war effort, neglecting the production of agricultural equipment that was desperately needed for Italy's postwar economic reconstruction. Lamborghini built a tractor for his father using spare parts, including a six-cylinder Morris engine, a General Motors transmission, and a Ford differential. Antonio's friends soon clamored for their own examples of Ferruccio's design. Working from a stock of surplus Morris engines and leftover military hardware, Lamborghini went into business building tractors in 1948, when he opened Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A. in his Pieve di Cento garage.[Notes 3]
Lamborghini History: Ferruccio
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Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder
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Lamborghini Ferruccio
After the war, Lamborghini opened a garage in Pieve di Cento. In his spare time, Lamborghini modified an old Fiat Topolino he had purchased, the first of many that he would own over the years. He made use of his mechanical abilities to transform the homely city car into a roaring 750-cc open-top two-seater, and entered the car in the 1948 Mille Miglia. His participation ended after 700 miles (1,100 km) when he ran the car into the side of a restaurant in the town of Fiano, in Turin. As a result, Lamborghini lost his enthusiasm for motor racing, a sentiment that would endure for many years to come.
Lamborghini Ferruccio
For years, Italy's industrial output had been dedicated to the war effort, neglecting the production of agricultural equipment that was desperately needed for Italy's postwar economic reconstruction. Lamborghini built a tractor for his father using spare parts, including a six-cylinder Morris engine, a General Motors transmission, and a Ford differential. Antonio's friends soon clamored for their own examples of Ferruccio's design. Working from a stock of surplus Morris engines and leftover military hardware, Lamborghini went into business building tractors in 1948, when he opened Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A. in his Pieve di Cento garage.[Notes 3]
Lamborghini History: Ferruccio
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Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder
As a boy Lamborghini already
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