One to Buy: 1 of 4 RHD by Hooper 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2
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As a consequence of its superior technical specification and build quality compared to anything else available from Italy at the time, the Lamborghini 350 GT was enormously well received following its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in 1964.
Equipped with fully independent suspension and disc brakes all round, the 350 GT was powered by an outstandingly impressive Giotto Bizzarrini-designed 3.5-litre V12 that featured dual overhead camshafts while the car’s contemporary rivals from Ferrari still made do with a single overhead cam arrangement.
Draped in avant garde coachwork by Touring of Milan, the 350 GT subsequently morphed into the four-litre 400 GT, after which Lamborghini elected to broaden the car’s appeal by adding a pair of small rear seats and a bigger trunk with the arrival of the 400 GT 2+2 at Geneva in 1966.
Just 224 examples of the 400 GT 2+2 are believed to have been manufactured by the time production was discontinued in 1967, of which only around a dozen were configured in right-hand drive. Prior to the factory building an official right-hand drive variant, the British Lamborghini distributor, Mitchell & Britten, commissioned the renowned Hooper coachworks in London to convert four cars from left hookers.
One of these rarely seen Hooper conversions is currently on offer with H&H’s Private Sales department in Cheshire: chassis 01225.
Showing a believed original 28,000 miles from new, this three owner car is presented in its original colour scheme of light metallic blue with tobacco upholstery and must surely rank among the best preserved examples of the 400 GT 2+2 in existence.
