Lamborghini shows what it takes to preserve its rich history.
After more than 60 years of making some of the world’s greatest Italian supercars, Lamborghini has a storied lineup that includes cars that defined and changed standards for luxury performance cars throughout the industry. For the past ten years, however, Lamborghini’s Polo Storico department has been dedicated to preserving and celebrating that history, painstakingly restoring cars among other feats of engineering and craftsmanship excellence to showcase the story of Lamborghini’s automotive pedigree in motion.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Polo Storico this year, Lamborghini brought guests from all over the world to experience the day-to-day activities of a Lamborghini Polo Storico technician. The experience saw guests working alongside Polo Storico staff and “Comitato dei Saggi,” former Lamborghini employees who now serve as consultants with insight on the cars of the brand’s past. The activities during the experience also recreated the tasks of Polo Storico technicians, like carrying out road tests, pulling documents from the historical archive, verifying cars for a Polo Storico certification, and working in the workshop for restorations.
Groups of two participants were each assigned to a specific car, including a 1967 400 GT 2+2, a 1990 Countach 25th Anniversary, a 2001 Diablo SE 6.0, and an LM 002. A 1973 Lamborghini Miura SV from the Lamborghini Museum collection was also worked on by the participants. Lamborghini’s partner in the initiative, Pirelli, has been a partner of Lamborghini since the beginning in the early 1960s, which means that Prielli contributes its own ability to recreate original tires for Lamborghini cars from the past to Polo Storico.
The experience saw guests learning about the history of Lamborghini’s partnership with Pirelli, which originally began when Ferruccio Lamborghini asked Pirelli to create tires for the original Lamborghini: the 350 GTV. With an inside look at the painstaking work of Polo Storico, guests of the experience saw the incredible effort it takes to preserve Lamborghini’s historic masterpieces, ten years into Polo Storico’s own history.
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