• One of only approximately 50 aluminium-bodied examples
• Among the first cars ever built by Lamborghini
• Invoices on file from 2017 to 2019 indicate $90,000-worth of mechanical work
• Newly finished in blue over a tan leather interior after being acquired by the consigning owner in 2021

Lamborghini’s first production car, the 350 GT, was the brainchild of two of Italy’s most illustrious automobile designers. With an engine designed by Giotto Bizzarrini, fresh from Ferrari, and a chassis engineered by Gian Paolo Dallara, the 350 GT needed only Touring’s Superleggera bodywork to be worthy of Ferruccio Lamborghini’s vision. When the production-spec 350 GT debuted at the Geneva International Motor Show in March 1964, it was to great acclaim. In all, it is thought that around 120 examples of the 350 GT were built before the model was succeeded by the 400 GT 2+2 in 1966.

This 350 GT was among the special early examples fitted with all-aluminium bodywork. Sold new to Garage Foitek in Zurich on 15 January 1965, chassis 0114 was finished in Blue Tigullio with Senape interior. In 1974 it was exported to the United States, where it would stay with its next owner for two years. Richard Rechter of Bloomington, Indiana, then acquired the 350 GT, and he would remain its custodian for 43 years.

Chassis number 0114 received a cosmetic and mechanical overhaul between 2017 to 2019, with invoices on file from Automotive FantomWorks in Norfolk, Virginia totalling nearly $90,000. For driver comfort, the seats were rebuilt, re-covered, and moved back by two-and-a-quarter inches. The engine was removed and resealed, and the cylinder heads rebuilt with new guides, seats, timing chains, and valves, with work also carried out on the carburettors and suspension. Sold from the collection of Jean Guikas in 2021, the Lamborghini has since been refinished in the factory-correct shade of Blue Tigullio.

As elegant today as when it rolled off the production line, this stunning 350 GT remains a highly desirable iteration of Lamborghini’s first production car.
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