Important Dates:

April 25, 1916: Ferruccio Lamborghini is born.
1949: His first factory (builds carioches).
1952: He switches from carioches to tractors.
1960: He starts a company which produces heating & cooling equipment.
1962: He decides to build a car of his own.
1962: Lamborghini is founded
1963: Car is finished.
1970: Lamborghini is one of the last independent car manufacturers.
February 20, 1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini dies at the age of 56.

Ferruccio Lamborghini was born on April 25, 1916 in Renazzo, Italy. His father was a farmer. As a child he was interested in all kinds of machines including fast cars. Because of hisinterest in machines his parents arranged for him to get his Industrial Design Degree in Bologna. When WWII started he decided to serve his country, so he enlisted. His job was to repair vehicles and keep them going. When the war ended he was out of work so he used spare military vehicle parts to repair tractors. This is how he started his tractor factory and became a success. Because of his love of cars he bought a few Ferraris but back then they were built poorly back then. So Ferruccio went to complain at the Maranello factory because of poor preformence and they told him he didn`t know anything about cars and should drive a tractor instead of a car. This got Ferruccio angry so he decided to build a better car than Ferrari.He contracted Giotto Bizzarrini (who designed Ferrari's 250 GTO engine) to design the engine. In 1963 the engine was finished. This engine was made in his tractor factory but his completely new car factory was built in Sant'Agata Bolognese, only a few kilometers from Ferrari's factory in Modena. This paved the road for the modern day company. Unfortunatly this great man died February 20, 1993.