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Includes specifications,19631988,plus scores of original factory photographs. Despite ferruccio lamborghini s reluctance to become involved with racing, wallace believed lamborghini production models had great competition potential and built these modified versions on his own initiative as both proof of concept exercises and test mules. Lyons, pete 1988, the complete book of lamborghini. Unmistakably born of the house of the raging bull, urus is a revolutionary vehicle. Lamborghini countach the complete story this work serves to explore one of the most legendary cars of all time, from its birth as the lp400 through its evolution into the 5000 quattrovalvole. Another source for discussion on chassis development, lyons 1988 the complete book of lamborghini states but where the miura chassis suffered persistent stiffness problems, the final countach design was enormously strong pg 196.
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