The Lamborghini: A Masterpiece of Exotic Automotive Design

As we step into the cockpit of this 1966 Lamborghini, it's hard not to feel a sense of awe and wonder at the sheer beauty and sophistication of this Italian stallion. The interior is sleek and elegant, with a minimalist aesthetic that exudes refinement and class. The lines are clean and linear, with a focus on functionality and usability. One of the most striking features of this car is its lack of compromise when it comes to driving experience. Unlike many of its contemporaries, which were often detuned for the street and prioritized power over practicality, the Lamborghini was designed to be a driver's car through and through.

The engine is a marvel of simplicity and elegance, with an emphasis on delivering smooth and seamless power delivery. The ignition system is cleverly designed, with an oil filter that's easily accessible and a valve cover that can be removed without stripping down the entire engine. One of the greatest joys of driving this car is the feeling of being connected to it - there's no extraneous weight or complication to get in the way of your relationship with the vehicle. The steering is beautifully weighted, with a precision and feedback that's hard to match. Whether you're cruising through the countryside at 60mph or tearing up the track at 200mph, this car delivers an unforgettable driving experience.

The story behind Lamborghini is one of passion and dedication to design. Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the company, was a self-taught mechanic who dreamed of building cars that were not only beautiful but also usable and reliable. Unlike his rival Enzo Ferrari, who prioritized speed and power above all else, Lamborghini believed in creating vehicles that could be enjoyed on a daily basis - whether you're cruising to the office or taking your mistress out for a spin. As a result, Lamborghini's cars were built with sophistication and refinement in mind, rather than brute force and raw power.

One of the most fascinating aspects of this car is its place in automotive history. The 1960s was a time when car design was still relatively free from regulatory constraints - there were no bumpers, no side mirrors, no airbags to worry about. It was a era when cars could be designed with pure aesthetic intention, without the need for safety features or practical considerations. This Lamborghini is a perfect example of that era's philosophy, with its sleek lines and minimalist design.

But what really sets this car apart is its legacy as an heirloom-quality vehicle. This 1966 Lamborghini was purchased by Malcolm Barksdale in the 8th grade, who has been driving it for years and taking care of it with devotion. He recalls reading about this car in math class and dreaming of one day getting to drive it - and when he finally got his hands on it, he was overjoyed. The fact that this car can still be driven to San Francisco tomorrow is a testament to the Lamborghini's enduring quality and reliability.

Malcolm thanks the owner for allowing him to borrow the car, which was a thrilling experience in itself. As we step out of the cockpit, we're left with a deep appreciation for this Italian icon - its beauty, sophistication, and driving experience are all still unmatched 50 years after its creation. Whether you're a seasoned car enthusiast or just someone who appreciates good design, this Lamborghini is an unforgettable ride that's sure to leave you in awe.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome another episode of Jay Leno's Garage you know we love classic Lamborghinis here on this website and it's funny that I'm old enough to remember these cars and they were new and now they're classic so I remember buying rod and track and seeing this car on the cover and just being astounded by it uh this is a 1965 or 66 it's it's really that period uh Lamborghini and uh Andrew Romanowski he's president of Lamborghini Club he always finds club members to bring this stuff over to the shop and it's really exciting so we'll find out the history of this car Andrew come on in how you doing buddy good great to see you I love this color is that was that a factory color back in the day yeah it was a factory gray uh the guy who restored the car and owns it Malcolm Barksdale he had the car completely restored except for the engine but the the paint color you asked about it's the same except for he added a little metallic to the color okay now I think everybody is familiar with the story of fruit Lamborghini he was a tractor Manu tractor manufacturer uh he bought a Ferrari was not happy with the clutch couple old Italian Guys yelling at each other went back to Ferrari says your collection are no good and Ferrari said hey go build your own car and you know just the Classic Ferrari got in fights with everybody Peter maie who was a Ferrari dealer that's the M verie over there he got in a fight with Ferrari he built his own cars so the probably more cars were started fights with Eno Ferrari than almost anything else and this was his very first attempt at building a car I thought it was tremendously successful although at the time there was some controversy people did not think this body was that attractive did they no it was a little bit different way of thinking you know it was a time where there were a variety of Classic GT cars and this fit into it you know it had a little bit different shape than what other people were doing at the time think about some of the American cars that were being developed in the early 60s and the thing about Lamborghini in this period was this was probably one of the smoothest v12s of all time he didn't want to build a race car for the world he wanted to build a road car he wanted to build a car that would do what he wanted his Ferrari to do and most of the road car Ferraris unless they're really expensive were were a single cam this was a 4 cam I think it's 3.5 L correct 350 horsepower which was tremendous back in the 1960s you know most American cars had 85 to 185 horsepower 350 was a big big number and being super Lera coachwork it was fairly lightweight barani wire wheels disc brakes um this was a longdistance classic touring GT car uh this is a touring body is that correct correct it was made by touring yeah yeah okay yeah I I love the look of this thing I think it's it's Timeless and I think as as it ages it it gets better looking uh back in the 60s when everything was this car was I don't know whether it's too Roundy it just it just didn't capture people but I think it's it's quite uh quite elegant and how many of these did they build do you know uh there was approximately 120 350 GTS built there's a little bit of controversy you on the exact build number because you know records were kept on you know just pen and paper right so it was a a lot different time period and then the 400 came in fairly quickly after this didn't correct correct this was a success so they came up with uh you know the 400 GT which was really just a 350 GT with a 4 L engine in it right right and then they came out with the 400 uh 2 plus2 which is uh Jack rell's car right jack Rell you might remember his has a distinction being I think the highest mileage Lamborghini I think in the world in the world yeah 250,000 Mi something like that absolutely uh the dis in that car and this car is this car the engine has never been opened up uh by the engine I mean the bottom end it's never been taken down I mean uh carburet hasn't been taken off and cleaned obviously uh I'm sure generators this has an alternator or a generator this has an alternator alternator they have it right from the factory alternator uh you know sure that's that's a good question I'm not sure I that was about alternator period because the Mustang 64 was Generator 64 and a half 65 then it went through so yeah that would have been an alternator car and this was not a cheap car I think this car was about $188,000 yeah yeah in 65 66 I know that doesn't sound like a whole lot right now but you could get a Cadillac for $5,000 Top ofthe Line Cadillac Mercedes was probably $7 to $8,000 so $118,000 nura was $222,500 I mean my parents paid $119,000 for our house and 59 so that shows you can have the house or the car well of course I would have preferred the car but my parents didn't want to live in a Lamborghini so we had to get a house but uh I mean that shows you how expensive it was but very very elegant and just a beautiful looking car and of course barani wire wheels that's the prettiest wire wheels I I've ever seen and to this day nobody makes a better looking wheel than that in my opinion it's got the proper knockoffs on it now bits arini designed this motor correct correct as you can see it's got side drafts on every Lamborghini used the variation of this engine right up until what the DI blow uh actually all the way through the mercil logo Jade it was a traditional 60° V12 with the dual overhead cam is very similar to the original engine Design This is the same engine as Espada Mira Mir s and Countach except instead of having side draft carburetors the carburetors are uh uh downdraft and uh because obviously you couldn't close the hood you know that's why they went to the side DFT the bizini designed engine originally had the carburetors on the top for a little bit more power right and as you mentioned they move the carbs on the side you know for a um you know a better packaging of the engine but all the classic Lamborghini touches the Beautiful cast pieces here and H it's just just a wonderful wonderful engine these are just bulletproof Motors I mean I've had mine since ' 86 they get a bad reputation cuz people try to do fixes on fixes on fixes if you put the car together the way it was meant to be it'll last a long time and and and run forever classic wood steering wheel which I always like uh these are all your toggle switches I always like toggle switches you know these were outlawed after about 66 67 had to go with rocker switches and I'm surprised these are actually labeled uh that's windshield wiper that's fan I'm not I'm not sure what some of these do that must be fog lights uh most of the Lamborghinis they had switches up here like the mirror and if you didn't know well and you had to learn or memorize you notice there's no pattern here the tells you what the gear shift if you could afford this car you you should be able to figure out how to shift it people are a little more responsible of their own action backs in those days got your standard warning lights up here uh notice no radio no air conditioner but that was fairly common air conditioning was a huge deal in the 60s and very very expensive especially an Italian car so very few cars had it and you had your I guess that's your is your a cigarette lighter here oh here it is cigarette lighter here and of course you have to have your Italian ashtray which holds exactly one Ash and then you lock that like that but just beautifully laid out I like the sort of art Deo looking numbers I like that font that they use that's really period correct he's got a little navigation unit here your glove box there you go actually holds a pair of gloves uh beautiful leather interior but very straightforward easy to understand you know most American cars just had idiot lights like this back in the 50s and 60s so to see actual gauges amp uh fuel temperature water temperature and of course uh you have your speedometer and kilometers per hour and of course your tachometer right here notice the red lines at 7,000 which was unbelievable back in the day uh most American cars peaked out at 5200 so uh and 6,000 was the end of the world so I have a car that with a red line was 7,000 in fact I remember there was a movie with James con called Red Line 7,000 and people are like going crazy oh my God 7,000 miles so that uh it's just just all the kind of fun period stuff something also interesting Jay this is an aluminum body car right you know which was uh you know nice it's a little bit more you know work when you're restoring a car to work on an aluminum body right you know as you know but it created a lightweight platform for the car you know the performance specs on this car for the time were you know tremendous yeah yeah you know cuz anything under zero to 60 under 7 Seconds was just lightning bolt F absolutely especially in that time period as you mentioned the horsepower you know during this time is uh you know unheard of yeah yeah and it has the right here what's it say oh super legera construction yep which I guess translates Loosely to super lightweight correct uh you know all tubes and uh impossible to repair if you get an accident but but very F but very strong and very lightweight now we have a book here this is kind of cool this is what I like you all the original it's amazing that the owner of the car Malcolm was able to get some of these materials you know he's got a factory brochure there I remember going through the auto show and getting tons of these and reading them and then my parents using them as coasters and then they got thrown now they're like $500 a piece yeah absolutely oh they got that and you've got the and this is the really cool part these are all the factory uh um spec sheets on the car whenever you know these were the documents created when the car built here's the exterior color uh here here's the uh interior color okay see I can't tell if I'm reading an Italian menu if that's the color but it's all in Italian all the number here the number here they got everything I mean it's just where did he get all this from the factory yeah he was able to get these documents from the factory which is uh you know okay here's the car it's hard to believe something could this could sit unloved and unwanted like this but this is this is what the car looked like when he got it mhm so you can see there's quite a bit of work uh going to be involved let's open the trunk you know something we always talk about Jay when we bring the cars in is the The Limited trunk space you know which they are obviously but this one interestingly uh maybe with the front engine configuration actually has a trunk yeah it actually has a trunk I can see you're not married because you're not going anywhere two people with that I mean if you're a guy you can some some underwear in there in a toothbrush but that's about it but but you actually got quite a bit of space behind the seat as well right all these cars used to come with fitted luggage I never quite I always see guys with uh you know G Wings driving around I know you go where do you go with fitted luggage it just always makes me laugh but this had it too you could get the luggage as well absolutely and very I mean look how light I mean that's very lightweight you don't want to get hit by an SUV in this thing there you go and she just seals nicely let's take it for a ride well this car drives very much like my asada you know the interesting thing about cars from this period it's not that it has a lot of horsepower which it does for the period that it has such usable smooth horsepower it's very turbine likee you know when you had 350 horses in an American car back in the 60s you know you're thinking hems and you know big motors and you know Cami deal solid lifters all that kind of thing these are turbine light you know modern engines are so smooth even four cylinders are smooth as kind of the early 12s but I remember David E Davis used to say on car driver everybody should drive a V12 car at least once in their life just to get that smooth Rush of torque and this is really where it comes from very sophisticated engine you know twin cam two valve which is uh the height of Exotica back in the 60s absolutely you know nowadays you can get an aono box that has a twin cam engine doesn't seem like anything but that was uh pretty cool stuff very nice car to drive good sight lines you can see the hood seems extremely short when you're sitting in the uh behind the wheel unlike the asata which has that long low Hood I mean it's really a nice size automobile you know when you see pictures of these things they appear big when you see them sitting by themselves but proportionately it's a very nice car and it's raining here so we're not going to uh go too crazy you know most of the modern Lamborghinis are rear engine cars and this is a front engine uh car you know how does it change the the Lamborghini experience in driving this you know I always like front engine cars to me it's that classic sort of uh style I grew up in an hour when everything was front engine where Mid Engine was the the odd way to go you know these cars track very nicely Mid Engine is something that really pays huge dividends I think on the track on the Street the advantage to a front engine car is engines in the front transmissions in the middle RS in the back and it's easy to work on everything you know front-wheel drive really tight and complicated under the hood and Mid Engine you're standing on the interior trying to get into it you know I remember guys with 914 Porsches just straping all over the seats and your back goes out leaning over trying to work on the thing so this was uh this was an exotic car you can actually work on your yourself this is not really a complicated car I mean it did seem complicated back in the day but ignition oil filters everything is easily accessible even the valve covers you don't have to take a lot off to get to them the great thing with this is just the long pull any gear these are really driver's cars you know you don't have power steering uh everything is nicely weighted the Great of the Lamborghini these of this period was they were no compromised road cars fucho did not want to go racing he didn't see the value in it he wanted to build cars that people could drive swiftly across the continent of Europe at high speed you know with your mistress sitting next to you and smoking a cigarette Ferraris and Maseratis these were mostly race cars detuned for the street and you had to they sputtered and choked when you went slow and you had to get out and you know rev them hard and do I mean there was wor work involved Fout wanted a car where a guy could get in press the clutch down everything was smooth and interacted it wasn't all about ultimate horsepower ultimate speed it was about sophistication and that's where Lamborghini really uh I think aced out Ferrari in those days was it was a sophisticated car that uh just had a lot of class and was easy to operate and was reasonably Dependable but this is a wonderful GT car if I had to compare it to a modern car I would compare it to like an Aston Martin dv9 not an allout race car not a super car for the street but a very competent highspeed uh extremely comfortable um fascinating car to drive you know this everything's very linear you step on the gas and you don't Lurch forward you you pull forwards you make progress swiftly put it that way that's what's kind of fun about it but when you get those revs up you know this this was meant to secure the Lamborghini name they're very carefully put together and very well put together very sophisticated car now something else people forget about this period is this generation of cars 65 66 was the last pure design by that I mean whatever you designed and built you could put on the road there was no bumper minimum height there was no uh lighting requirement other than you had to see the road U there was no headlights have to be this High hood has to be this long whatever it might be whatever you designed you could put on the road that's why I think my two favorite years are 1932 for car design and 1966 cuz from 66 on the party was over you had to have this much bumper protection you had to have remember all the rubber bumper cars that came along in the 70s the 5 mph bumper you know all this kind of thing you have to be able to hit a pedestrian he's got to get up laughing and you know all these sort of rules but prior to 66 you could build a car with a thin a pillar like believe me if you roll this car this thing would crush like a beer can I mean you you have a broken neck and you'd be dead whereas nowadays how many times down the freeway you see an SUV balled up like it's 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide and people are standing next to on a cell phone so car safety has come a long way these cars were built with really no no pretense towards car safety no telop no telescopic steering wheel uh these sort of toggle switches that would put your eye out you know and just a hilarious but uh they are beautiful wow what an automobile I want to thank uh Malcolm Barksdale for letting us uh borrow this car you know it kind of shows you the Lamborghini people really like their cars to be driven and really use them and uh as someone who I remember being in e8th grade with my road and track sitting in math class reading about this car you know just get the chance to drive it it's such a thrill because it seems so exotic and it and it is it really is an exotic automobile and to think that this is a 50-year-old car that you could drive to San Francisco tomorrow uh they drove it up from San Diego in the rain uh so that shows you the uh Lamborghini guys really use their Automobiles and and as as they were intended so Malcolm thank you very much this was uh quite a thrill I'm sorry you couldn't be here but I hope you can come up in person and know we didn't scratch it or anything and we're not going to do a burnout and uh once again thanks for a just a thrill of a lifetime this is kind of a Boyhood dream come true see you guys next weekwelcome another episode of Jay Leno's Garage you know we love classic Lamborghinis here on this website and it's funny that I'm old enough to remember these cars and they were new and now they're classic so I remember buying rod and track and seeing this car on the cover and just being astounded by it uh this is a 1965 or 66 it's it's really that period uh Lamborghini and uh Andrew Romanowski he's president of Lamborghini Club he always finds club members to bring this stuff over to the shop and it's really exciting so we'll find out the history of this car Andrew come on in how you doing buddy good great to see you I love this color is that was that a factory color back in the day yeah it was a factory gray uh the guy who restored the car and owns it Malcolm Barksdale he had the car completely restored except for the engine but the the paint color you asked about it's the same except for he added a little metallic to the color okay now I think everybody is familiar with the story of fruit Lamborghini he was a tractor Manu tractor manufacturer uh he bought a Ferrari was not happy with the clutch couple old Italian Guys yelling at each other went back to Ferrari says your collection are no good and Ferrari said hey go build your own car and you know just the Classic Ferrari got in fights with everybody Peter maie who was a Ferrari dealer that's the M verie over there he got in a fight with Ferrari he built his own cars so the probably more cars were started fights with Eno Ferrari than almost anything else and this was his very first attempt at building a car I thought it was tremendously successful although at the time there was some controversy people did not think this body was that attractive did they no it was a little bit different way of thinking you know it was a time where there were a variety of Classic GT cars and this fit into it you know it had a little bit different shape than what other people were doing at the time think about some of the American cars that were being developed in the early 60s and the thing about Lamborghini in this period was this was probably one of the smoothest v12s of all time he didn't want to build a race car for the world he wanted to build a road car he wanted to build a car that would do what he wanted his Ferrari to do and most of the road car Ferraris unless they're really expensive were were a single cam this was a 4 cam I think it's 3.5 L correct 350 horsepower which was tremendous back in the 1960s you know most American cars had 85 to 185 horsepower 350 was a big big number and being super Lera coachwork it was fairly lightweight barani wire wheels disc brakes um this was a longdistance classic touring GT car uh this is a touring body is that correct correct it was made by touring yeah yeah okay yeah I I love the look of this thing I think it's it's Timeless and I think as as it ages it it gets better looking uh back in the 60s when everything was this car was I don't know whether it's too Roundy it just it just didn't capture people but I think it's it's quite uh quite elegant and how many of these did they build do you know uh there was approximately 120 350 GTS built there's a little bit of controversy you on the exact build number because you know records were kept on you know just pen and paper right so it was a a lot different time period and then the 400 came in fairly quickly after this didn't correct correct this was a success so they came up with uh you know the 400 GT which was really just a 350 GT with a 4 L engine in it right right and then they came out with the 400 uh 2 plus2 which is uh Jack rell's car right jack Rell you might remember his has a distinction being I think the highest mileage Lamborghini I think in the world in the world yeah 250,000 Mi something like that absolutely uh the dis in that car and this car is this car the engine has never been opened up uh by the engine I mean the bottom end it's never been taken down I mean uh carburet hasn't been taken off and cleaned obviously uh I'm sure generators this has an alternator or a generator this has an alternator alternator they have it right from the factory alternator uh you know sure that's that's a good question I'm not sure I that was about alternator period because the Mustang 64 was Generator 64 and a half 65 then it went through so yeah that would have been an alternator car and this was not a cheap car I think this car was about $188,000 yeah yeah in 65 66 I know that doesn't sound like a whole lot right now but you could get a Cadillac for $5,000 Top ofthe Line Cadillac Mercedes was probably $7 to $8,000 so $118,000 nura was $222,500 I mean my parents paid $119,000 for our house and 59 so that shows you can have the house or the car well of course I would have preferred the car but my parents didn't want to live in a Lamborghini so we had to get a house but uh I mean that shows you how expensive it was but very very elegant and just a beautiful looking car and of course barani wire wheels that's the prettiest wire wheels I I've ever seen and to this day nobody makes a better looking wheel than that in my opinion it's got the proper knockoffs on it now bits arini designed this motor correct correct as you can see it's got side drafts on every Lamborghini used the variation of this engine right up until what the DI blow uh actually all the way through the mercil logo Jade it was a traditional 60° V12 with the dual overhead cam is very similar to the original engine Design This is the same engine as Espada Mira Mir s and Countach except instead of having side draft carburetors the carburetors are uh uh downdraft and uh because obviously you couldn't close the hood you know that's why they went to the side DFT the bizini designed engine originally had the carburetors on the top for a little bit more power right and as you mentioned they move the carbs on the side you know for a um you know a better packaging of the engine but all the classic Lamborghini touches the Beautiful cast pieces here and H it's just just a wonderful wonderful engine these are just bulletproof Motors I mean I've had mine since ' 86 they get a bad reputation cuz people try to do fixes on fixes on fixes if you put the car together the way it was meant to be it'll last a long time and and and run forever classic wood steering wheel which I always like uh these are all your toggle switches I always like toggle switches you know these were outlawed after about 66 67 had to go with rocker switches and I'm surprised these are actually labeled uh that's windshield wiper that's fan I'm not I'm not sure what some of these do that must be fog lights uh most of the Lamborghinis they had switches up here like the mirror and if you didn't know well and you had to learn or memorize you notice there's no pattern here the tells you what the gear shift if you could afford this car you you should be able to figure out how to shift it people are a little more responsible of their own action backs in those days got your standard warning lights up here uh notice no radio no air conditioner but that was fairly common air conditioning was a huge deal in the 60s and very very expensive especially an Italian car so very few cars had it and you had your I guess that's your is your a cigarette lighter here oh here it is cigarette lighter here and of course you have to have your Italian ashtray which holds exactly one Ash and then you lock that like that but just beautifully laid out I like the sort of art Deo looking numbers I like that font that they use that's really period correct he's got a little navigation unit here your glove box there you go actually holds a pair of gloves uh beautiful leather interior but very straightforward easy to understand you know most American cars just had idiot lights like this back in the 50s and 60s so to see actual gauges amp uh fuel temperature water temperature and of course uh you have your speedometer and kilometers per hour and of course your tachometer right here notice the red lines at 7,000 which was unbelievable back in the day uh most American cars peaked out at 5200 so uh and 6,000 was the end of the world so I have a car that with a red line was 7,000 in fact I remember there was a movie with James con called Red Line 7,000 and people are like going crazy oh my God 7,000 miles so that uh it's just just all the kind of fun period stuff something also interesting Jay this is an aluminum body car right you know which was uh you know nice it's a little bit more you know work when you're restoring a car to work on an aluminum body right you know as you know but it created a lightweight platform for the car you know the performance specs on this car for the time were you know tremendous yeah yeah you know cuz anything under zero to 60 under 7 Seconds was just lightning bolt F absolutely especially in that time period as you mentioned the horsepower you know during this time is uh you know unheard of yeah yeah and it has the right here what's it say oh super legera construction yep which I guess translates Loosely to super lightweight correct uh you know all tubes and uh impossible to repair if you get an accident but but very F but very strong and very lightweight now we have a book here this is kind of cool this is what I like you all the original it's amazing that the owner of the car Malcolm was able to get some of these materials you know he's got a factory brochure there I remember going through the auto show and getting tons of these and reading them and then my parents using them as coasters and then they got thrown now they're like $500 a piece yeah absolutely oh they got that and you've got the and this is the really cool part these are all the factory uh um spec sheets on the car whenever you know these were the documents created when the car built here's the exterior color uh here here's the uh interior color okay see I can't tell if I'm reading an Italian menu if that's the color but it's all in Italian all the number here the number here they got everything I mean it's just where did he get all this from the factory yeah he was able to get these documents from the factory which is uh you know okay here's the car it's hard to believe something could this could sit unloved and unwanted like this but this is this is what the car looked like when he got it mhm so you can see there's quite a bit of work uh going to be involved let's open the trunk you know something we always talk about Jay when we bring the cars in is the The Limited trunk space you know which they are obviously but this one interestingly uh maybe with the front engine configuration actually has a trunk yeah it actually has a trunk I can see you're not married because you're not going anywhere two people with that I mean if you're a guy you can some some underwear in there in a toothbrush but that's about it but but you actually got quite a bit of space behind the seat as well right all these cars used to come with fitted luggage I never quite I always see guys with uh you know G Wings driving around I know you go where do you go with fitted luggage it just always makes me laugh but this had it too you could get the luggage as well absolutely and very I mean look how light I mean that's very lightweight you don't want to get hit by an SUV in this thing there you go and she just seals nicely let's take it for a ride well this car drives very much like my asada you know the interesting thing about cars from this period it's not that it has a lot of horsepower which it does for the period that it has such usable smooth horsepower it's very turbine likee you know when you had 350 horses in an American car back in the 60s you know you're thinking hems and you know big motors and you know Cami deal solid lifters all that kind of thing these are turbine light you know modern engines are so smooth even four cylinders are smooth as kind of the early 12s but I remember David E Davis used to say on car driver everybody should drive a V12 car at least once in their life just to get that smooth Rush of torque and this is really where it comes from very sophisticated engine you know twin cam two valve which is uh the height of Exotica back in the 60s absolutely you know nowadays you can get an aono box that has a twin cam engine doesn't seem like anything but that was uh pretty cool stuff very nice car to drive good sight lines you can see the hood seems extremely short when you're sitting in the uh behind the wheel unlike the asata which has that long low Hood I mean it's really a nice size automobile you know when you see pictures of these things they appear big when you see them sitting by themselves but proportionately it's a very nice car and it's raining here so we're not going to uh go too crazy you know most of the modern Lamborghinis are rear engine cars and this is a front engine uh car you know how does it change the the Lamborghini experience in driving this you know I always like front engine cars to me it's that classic sort of uh style I grew up in an hour when everything was front engine where Mid Engine was the the odd way to go you know these cars track very nicely Mid Engine is something that really pays huge dividends I think on the track on the Street the advantage to a front engine car is engines in the front transmissions in the middle RS in the back and it's easy to work on everything you know front-wheel drive really tight and complicated under the hood and Mid Engine you're standing on the interior trying to get into it you know I remember guys with 914 Porsches just straping all over the seats and your back goes out leaning over trying to work on the thing so this was uh this was an exotic car you can actually work on your yourself this is not really a complicated car I mean it did seem complicated back in the day but ignition oil filters everything is easily accessible even the valve covers you don't have to take a lot off to get to them the great thing with this is just the long pull any gear these are really driver's cars you know you don't have power steering uh everything is nicely weighted the Great of the Lamborghini these of this period was they were no compromised road cars fucho did not want to go racing he didn't see the value in it he wanted to build cars that people could drive swiftly across the continent of Europe at high speed you know with your mistress sitting next to you and smoking a cigarette Ferraris and Maseratis these were mostly race cars detuned for the street and you had to they sputtered and choked when you went slow and you had to get out and you know rev them hard and do I mean there was wor work involved Fout wanted a car where a guy could get in press the clutch down everything was smooth and interacted it wasn't all about ultimate horsepower ultimate speed it was about sophistication and that's where Lamborghini really uh I think aced out Ferrari in those days was it was a sophisticated car that uh just had a lot of class and was easy to operate and was reasonably Dependable but this is a wonderful GT car if I had to compare it to a modern car I would compare it to like an Aston Martin dv9 not an allout race car not a super car for the street but a very competent highspeed uh extremely comfortable um fascinating car to drive you know this everything's very linear you step on the gas and you don't Lurch forward you you pull forwards you make progress swiftly put it that way that's what's kind of fun about it but when you get those revs up you know this this was meant to secure the Lamborghini name they're very carefully put together and very well put together very sophisticated car now something else people forget about this period is this generation of cars 65 66 was the last pure design by that I mean whatever you designed and built you could put on the road there was no bumper minimum height there was no uh lighting requirement other than you had to see the road U there was no headlights have to be this High hood has to be this long whatever it might be whatever you designed you could put on the road that's why I think my two favorite years are 1932 for car design and 1966 cuz from 66 on the party was over you had to have this much bumper protection you had to have remember all the rubber bumper cars that came along in the 70s the 5 mph bumper you know all this kind of thing you have to be able to hit a pedestrian he's got to get up laughing and you know all these sort of rules but prior to 66 you could build a car with a thin a pillar like believe me if you roll this car this thing would crush like a beer can I mean you you have a broken neck and you'd be dead whereas nowadays how many times down the freeway you see an SUV balled up like it's 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide and people are standing next to on a cell phone so car safety has come a long way these cars were built with really no no pretense towards car safety no telop no telescopic steering wheel uh these sort of toggle switches that would put your eye out you know and just a hilarious but uh they are beautiful wow what an automobile I want to thank uh Malcolm Barksdale for letting us uh borrow this car you know it kind of shows you the Lamborghini people really like their cars to be driven and really use them and uh as someone who I remember being in e8th grade with my road and track sitting in math class reading about this car you know just get the chance to drive it it's such a thrill because it seems so exotic and it and it is it really is an exotic automobile and to think that this is a 50-year-old car that you could drive to San Francisco tomorrow uh they drove it up from San Diego in the rain uh so that shows you the uh Lamborghini guys really use their Automobiles and and as as they were intended so Malcolm thank you very much this was uh quite a thrill I'm sorry you couldn't be here but I hope you can come up in person and know we didn't scratch it or anything and we're not going to do a burnout and uh once again thanks for a just a thrill of a lifetime this is kind of a Boyhood dream come true see you guys next week\n"