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Ferruccio Lamborghini's Twin-V12 Riva Speedboat Restored | Autofluence
Ferruccio Lamborghini began Lamborghini Automobili in 1963 in the hopes of building the best V12 engines on the market. He succeeded, creating automobiles that are recognized and praised around the world. In 1968, Ferruccio decided to buy a Riva Aquarama Speedboat; however, this was to be a Riva unlike any other.
Ferruccio and Carlo Riva teamed up to create a very special boat. They tagged the vessel with the Lamborghini name and replaced its two V8 engines with optimized 450 hp 4.0-Liter V12 engines built for the water from Lamborghini’s factory. The engines were the same as the one found in a Lamborghini 350GT, and together produced a top speed of up to 55 mph.
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10-15-2013, 07:00 PM #1Senior Member
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Ferruccio Lamborghini’s Twin-V12 Riva Speedboat Restored
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Work of art.
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10-15-2013, 07:04 PM #3Senior Member
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I posted a little deal on Riva awhile back. Beautiful machines!! http://www.hotboat.com/frm/showthrea...highlight=riva
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This is a Lamborghini thread.
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Whoops, lol Originally Posted by Mateo
This is a Lamborghini thread.
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A read this article a couple days ago... What a cool restoration. Beautiful machine.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free Originally Posted by Wendi
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That's beautiful. But I love those kind of boats anyway.
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So I could've read this a couple days ago? Thanks for posting! Originally Posted by 28eliminator
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10-15-2013, 11:11 PM #9Senior Member
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Roughly the same time that boat was built, Robert McCulloch(who founded Lake Havasu City) had a similar Riva built with twin Ferraris. Probably because he saw this one
It was dry slung in a water garage at site 6 launch ramp, which at the time McCulloch owned every square inch of what was then a peninsula, now the island. I saw the boat twice. Once around 1970 during the World Outboard Championships which McCulloch was the sole sponsor, and again when it was the first boat to pass thru the channel on opening day in 1971. Always wonder what happened to that boat.
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10-16-2013, 10:11 AM #10Senior Member
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I would be afraid to use that thing, but that's how I roll right Bob?
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