Lamborghini 350 GT ‘Best in Show’ in Company-sponsored Concours
Winning 350 GT is one of 36 Lamborghinis to take part in second annual ‘Lamborghini & Design’ Concorso d’Eleganza touring show.
Lamborghini has some of the most amazing cars to ever grace the world’s roads. From classics including the Countach, Miura, and LM002, to modern wonders like the Aventador, Huracan, and Urus, every car and SUV to leave Sant’Agata does so turning heads with their styling.
It’s little wonder, then, that Lamborghini Polo Storico decided to throw its own concours, the “Lamborghini & Design” Concorso d’Eleganza, to celebrate the amazing vehicles built since the first 350 GT left the line in May of 1964. And speaking of the 350 GT, a 1964 example was chosen as the concours’ “Best in Show” award winner at the end of the second annual travelling show, held between Venice and Trieste, Italy from September 19 through 21.
The 350 GT, Chassis No. 102, was just one of 36 Lamborghinis made between 1964 and 1991 to take part in the concours, whose theme this year was a tribute to the late Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who hailed from Trieste. Examples of her work include the Musée d’Orsay and the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
The travelling concours left Venice Friday morning, arriving in the seaside squares of Portopiccolo (near Trieste) over 90 minutes later for the public to adore. The following morning, judges looked over the Lamborghinis on display for their award selections before one and all rolled out to Trieste’s Piazza Unità di Italia, up through the streets of the famed Trieste-Opicina hill climb, into and out of Slovenia, and back to Portopiccolo for the evening’s award ceremony.
Not only did the 350 GT No. 102 win the overall “Best in Show” title, but it also took home the Class A “Front Engine Dawn” title. The car is owned by a Swiss collector, was the first car to be sold to a private customer by Lamborghini, and is the oldest Lamborghini still on the road today.
Other award winners of the “Lamborghini & Design” Concorso d’Eleganza include a 1974 Walter Wolf Countach (Class C “Longitudinale Posteriore,” and Lamborghini Milestone), a 1987 LM002 (Class F “New Frontiers”), and a 1969 Isero S (Longest Ownership, owned for four decades by the same family). There was also a special honor for a Riva Aquarama owned by the man himself, Ferruccio Lamborghini, who had the motorboat fitted with his own company’s engines. All we can say is we need to make plans to attend this amazing tribute to Sant’Agata’s most famous auto manufacturer next year.
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