Lamborghini’s first production car, the 350 GT, was the brainchild of two of Italy’s most illustrious auto designers.

With an engine designed by Giotto Bizzarrini, fresh from Ferrari, and a chassis engineered by Gianpaolo Dallara, the 350 GT needed only Touring’s superleggera bodywork to be worthy of the charging bull.

Production of the 350 GT took place from 1964 to 1966, during which time 120 examples were produced.

Offered here, chassis 0400 was completed on 2 May 1966.

It is believed to be among the last run of 350 GTs produced, as work had begun on the car’s successor, the 400 GT 2+2.

According to factory production records, chassis 0400 left the Works finished in Azzurro Fiat , destined for the United States via Jake Kaplan’s East Coast Lamborghini distributorship.

The early history is not known; however, the car found its way to the West Coast sometime in the late 1970s, evidenced by the 1980 Long Beach Grand Prix sticker still on the windscreen.

By the 1990s, the car was...