One summer when Chuck Beck’s wife was out of the country, Chuck decided to get creative and ask his buddy who recently had his Lamborghini catch fire, for the engine out of it so he could build a dream machine. A fully functional Lamborghini V12 powered motorcycle.
Exotic automobiles, such as the Lamborghini Countach, used to have a bad reputation as temperamental, problem-ridden machines. I think the person hooning in a 25th-Anniversary edition of the car in the video at the bottom of this post seems to be out to change that way of thinking. The driver cooks up some Italian donuts […] More »
Walter Wolf is the fellow from Canada who aided a particular Italian car company in building on of the most classic cars of all time. He didn’t start out in the automotive industry. Like Daniel Plainview, Wolf was an oilman, decades ago. He certainly knew a lot of people who used petroleum products in engines, […] More »
It’s Rocky versus Tyson. The Countach is arguably the Lamborghini that started it all. The Miura was a svelte bombshell but the Countach had the most real estate on bedroom walls, and its angular look continues to this day. V12, tires as wide as Texas, seats as vertical as a church pew. The Aventador is […] More »
No offense, but Autoblog’s recent visit to the Lamborghini Museum at the company’s headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese make me wonder if they’re, “Working hard or hardly working?” (Can’t you just feel the elbow in the ribs from a middle-management type?) Even though the crew was in Italy for a Lamborghini Huracan press conference, photographing two […] More »
As fellow car fans, you all probably know the alternative meaning of the phrase, “the running of the bulls.” Some Lamborghini owners recently conducted just such an event going from Houston to Austin, Texas. They rested their beasts at Esotico Italiano, a car show at The Oasis restaurant on Lake Travis. There were other Italian […] More »
Tip: Buy a ticket to Plymouth, Michigan. You’re welcome. You’ve just been given the heads-up on a chance to experience The Italian Happening, a car and motorbike show which was most recently hosted by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of Detroit. The only scary thing about this happening is how jacked your adrenaline will be […] More »
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