With the passing of yet another Tuesday, Petrolicious have been so kind to impart upon us another automotive based gift in the form of their latest video, this time featuring the ultra rare Lamborghini Urraco.
Gene Ondrusek first spotted the Urraco for sale in a Dallas Morning News classified advertisement in 1987. The listing described the car as a solid runner with a mere 40,000 miles, and while the interior was, to put it mildly, in rough shape, Ondrusek figured that the market for classic Italian cars was such that he could foot the bill for a cosmetic restoration and still come out ahead.
Originally intended as “the workingman’s Lamborghini,” the Urraco’s 1975 price tag of $22,500 (approximately $98,000 in 2014 dollars) meant that the cars often ended up in the hands of people who could afford to buy them but couldn’t keep up with the maintenance costs of an Italian exotic. Ondrusek would soon learn this firsthand.
After being treated to a full restoration, the owner of this Urraco made sure it wouldn’t be garage queen.As he correctly puts it, “you can either run the car and things will break, or you can leave it sitting and things will break, so he might as well enjoy breaking it on the open road.”
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