Cars? Or Tractors?

[Courtesy of Quiz Daily]

Start your engines: Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder and namesake of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., didn’t always make cars.

He was born in 1916, and by the end of World War II he was hard at work near Bologna, Italy making tractors. Lamborghini used surplus military machines left over from the war and re-worked them into farming machines. As his success grew, he entered other business areas. Soon, he was selling heating and air conditioning systems. 

Shifting gears: It took Ferruccio Lamborghini a long time to save up enough money to start building sports cars. It was only after Lamborghini was a wealthy man — and after he developed a distaste for the fancy cars already on the market (he owned plenty) — that he decided to get into the sports car business. Lamborghini used his wealth to hire elite talent, including a top Ferrari engineer, and started his Lamborghini sports car company in 1963.

And the rest is history!

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