US$149,500.00 Ferruccio Lamborghini was one of the wealthiest industrialists in Italy and a Ferrari owner, but he considered Ferraris unrefined as grand touring cars – suited only for racing. Enzo Ferrari responded angrily, insulting Lamborghini who immediately set out to create a better grand touring car than Ferrari with the world’s richest and most powerful as the desired audience.The first Lamborghini was introduced just four months later at the 1963 Turin Auto Show. Lamborghini constructed a modern production facility near Bologna and completed 273 two-seat front-engine 3.5-liter V-12 350 GT coupes in 1964, the first year of production. That car quickly became the 400 GT with a larger 3.9-liter V-12 and 2+2 seating. The spectacular mid-engine V-12 Miura unveiled in chassis-only form at the Turin Auto Show in 1965 was intended as a display car, but went into production as the worlds first Supercar in 1966. The Miura was followed two years later by the revolutionary Espada, fulfilling Lamborghini’s vision of a true grand touring car seating four adults in luxury with performance and styling as dramatic as anything Lamborghini had previously produced.Lamborghini later described the Espada as “my Rolls-Royce; still quite fast but also large and comfortable”. The Espada was styled by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, who also styled the Miura, derived from the earlier Lamborghini Marzal concept car. The Espada was powered by the same Giotto Bizzarrini-designed 3.9-liter 60-degree dohc V-12 engine as the Miura, mounted in the front of the car driving the rear wheels through a 5-speed Lamborghini gearbox. Like all Lamborghinis of the period, chassis development was undertaken under joint heads of the technical department: Giampaolo Dallara and Paolo Stanzani. In production trim, the Espada was capable of a top speed of 155 mph, making it then the fastest four-passenger automobile in the world. The...