1964 Lamborghini 350 GT
Carrozzeria Touring’s aluminum coachwork gave Ferruccio Lamborghini’s first production car a restrained, long-hood profile that owed as much to Italian grand touring convention as it did to ambition.
Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1964, the 350 GT was the product of an unusually concentrated assembly of talent: a chassis by Gian Paolo Dallara, engine architecture originated by Giotto Bizzarrini (then recently departed from Ferrari), and bodywork constructed using Touring’s Superleggera method.
The 3.5-liter quad-cam V12 had been substantially civilized from Bizzarrini’s original racing-oriented design (which had reportedly produced around 360 bhp on the test bench) to a street-appropriate 280 bhp at 6,500 rpm, delivered through a five-speed ZF gearbox. Four-wheel independent suspension set it apart from many contemporaries, including several Ferrari road cars of the period.
Approximately 120 examples were completed before the model evolved into the 400 GT in 1966, and later the 400 GT 2+2 that same year. The V12 architecture introduced here would remain central to Lamborghini’s identity for decades.
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