Automobili Lamborghini was established in 1963, but Ferruccio arrived on the planet back in 1916 as the eldest son of farmers Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini. Ferruccio’s farming background is fairly well known, but few are aware of the fact that he actually cut his teeth in mechanics in “the best mechanical workshop in Bologna” before World War II saw him being drafted to the 50th Mixed Manuever Motor Fleet stationed in Rhodes. There, he took care of the maintenance of all the island’s military vehicles, and at the end of the war, he opened his first business, a small mechanical repair shop, on the same island.