When was your first?

[pdisme]

:lol2: When was the first time you saw a Lamborghini, at all, in real life, and when, if you own one, did you know you had to have one?

It was car magazines for me, when I was a teenager, Countach all the way, had the walls of the room pretty much covered in Countach and music posters. I think I saw my first Lamborghini in person when I was in my early 20's and what a site, you know how they look from having studied a million pictures before you see one in real life but nothing can prepare you for when you actually get to see one, it's a magnificent car and words are hard to come by to describe the feeling you get the first time you really see one. I knew at that point I would do anything to get one but also had reality slapping me in the back of the head that I needed to do something about my work situation if that were to ever become a possibility. Fortunately started a business about a year later, things worked out for the best and seven or eight years after seeing my first one I was finally able to 'pull the trigger'.

Now, you get another entirely different set of emotions that rush over you when you go to purchase and drive your first Lamborghini home; holy shit, talk about nervous. Before the car is yours it's more art work than transportation and you don't have to think about curbs, pot holes, rocks and semi trucks, let alone cars hiding in your blind spot taking pictures. As you sign those papers though, you've just signed on to be your car's bodyguard when you're not pressing your foot to the floor to forget everything else around you, so you have to train yourself to just not think about the bad things that can happen to your new exotic, get the 3M clear bra put on and go rack up some miles, you'll have hundreds of hours of ear to ear grinning soon thereafter.

[Minch00]

My first Lamborghini experience is a little strange. My dad was selling his 1980s Chevy S-10 pickup, and I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. So he gets a call one day from someone interested in it, so we drive over there. It was a small car dealership, but it had a couple of neat things in it. Like a red Lamborghini Diablo. Now I wasn't much into cars at the time (besides like Hot Wheels), but I knew something special when I saw it. The guy was a little nervous with me being so close to it, but my dad asked him, as a clause to selling the truck, if I could stand on the seat and pretend to be driving it. As soon at the door went UP instead of OUT.......man, you couldn't have seen a more awe-struck kid if you tried. So there I am, in a Lamborghini Diablo, my first real accomplishment if you will. Of course I couldn't appreciate the leather work, or the clicking of the shifter through it's gates, or any of the other things I know about now, but I just knew I loved it. After that I got a Diablo poster on my wall and started reading car mags when I was old enough to subscribe for myself (about 13 or so). And here I am.


Then when I met Dave at C&C, that was the first Lambo since the Diablo that I really got a good close look at, most car shows they were blocked off, or simply not there. When he took me for a ride, again, you couldn't have seen a more awe-struck kid. So I completed the circle, since my dad got me my first Lambo sit-in, I got him his first ride :D My dad had always been into 1960s muscle cars, so he knew about what torque felt like, but he said he'd never ever been in anything that fast.


But to conclude, when the day comes (and if I can fit in it) I'm buying an early red Diablo.

[Minte]

I'll never forget my first sighting. On the LasVegas strip. I was standing in front of Harrahs waiting at the light to walk over to Mirage. A white countach pulled up at the light. The owner must've seen me drooling because he revved it up and hit it hard at the light. Right there, I knew I HAD TO HAVE ONE.... about 12 years,3 porsche's,6 bmws,and a couple of mercedes later I got one. It was worth the wait!

[Talus]

There was a Countach at a collectibles delership that I went to when I first got my license. I asked to sit in it jokingly and the salesman said "sure". At 16 I still remember how cramped the footwells/pedals were on that thing. I don't know how people drive them with shoes on.

[duc749r]

I think the fist time I was ever up close to one, was when I was about 10 maybe 11 back in 1989-1990. I had a poster of a 25th anniversary Countach on my wall, and I was in San Francisco with my parents and brother to pick up my dads 72' E-type Jag from I think back then it was Ferrari of San Francisco before they moved to Mill Valley where BMCs Lambo building is today. We walk in to the service to get his E-type and they told us that it was being cleaned and to wait in the showroom for a few minutes. We walked through the door and there was a new 25th Red anniversary Countach with the doors up.... I almost jumped through the roof. So we went over to take a look and one of the salesmen told us the car is there on consignment because some older woman’s son convinced her that it would be a good investment to buy all these exotics. I guess after a year she had a change of heart and decided to sell both a black and a red 25th anniversary Countach and a couple Ferraris. We talked with the guy for a while and my parents were thinking about purchasing it, probably because my brother and I wouldn’t shut up and wanted them to buy it. Unfortunately we did not get the car that evening.

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[Matt]

Well, I believe my first was a girl named ashley and... oh...

I think the first time i ever laid eyes on a Lambo was my friend had a poster of a black Diablo and I thought it was the baddest thing i'd seen.

[pdisme]

I'll never forget my first sighting. On the LasVegas strip. I was standing in front of Harrahs waiting at the light to walk over to Mirage. A white countach pulled up at the light. The owner must've seen me drooling because he revved it up and hit it hard at the light. Right there, I knew I HAD TO HAVE ONE.... about 12 years,3 porsche's,6 bmws,and a couple of mercedes later I got one. It was worth the wait!

I think I've seen a Lambo just about every time I've been to Vegas. :) What a city.

[zzzzdoc]

Saw 2 when I went. A black G, and a Titanium LP640.

[zzzzdoc]

Interestingly enough, if you take car shows out of the equation, the first Lambo I saw on the road was one I was looking at to purchase last year. Amazingly, growing up in Westchester, and living in Boston, then the Midwest, I never once saw ANY Lambo on the road.

So, clearly, it was an event for me when I first rode in one. Having grown up lusting after the same Countach's, watching Cannonball Run, etc...

I was almost shaking when I first got behind the wheel of the Murci I purchased. Within 10 minutes I was drag racing John Travolta between traffic lights in his TVR Tuscan. After kicking his butt, and having him tell me to tell my wife to buy the car, I was hooked, and had myself a Murci.

LA is so surreal.

I remember Jeremy Clarkson reviewing the Countach and saying to never buy your dream car, because you will always be let down. To let the dream remain a dream. Well, I didn't buy the Countach, but I still pretty well feel my dream came true. And when LamboLarry gave me a ride in his Countach, that dream came true too.

[pdisme]

It's a great feeling driving around in a Lamborghini because you know there are people who are seeing your car, who are into cars, they've never seen a Lambo in real life before and it will be a day they remember years later, maybe setting in motion a chain of events for them to get their own.

[pdisme]

Within 10 minutes I was drag racing John Travolta between traffic lights in his TVR Tuscan. After kicking his butt, and having him tell me to tell my wife to buy the car, I was hooked, and had myself a Murci.

I love how a Lamborghini can became an introduction to interesting people like that, more so than many cars, including exotics, or other common interests; I think it's just the boldness and attitude with the outrageous colors and strong shapes that make it such a different car. That may explain the attitude others normally show towards it as well; I've found people are generally very receptive to my car and approaching me to ask about it, very few have attitudes or lead me to believe they were expecting me to be a snob or an ass. I do get the impression, or the stories, that owners of different marques are not always so friendly and then you end up with stereotypes.