Initial design team[edit]
After the testing of his prototype Lamborghini engine in May 1963,[3] Giotto Bizzarrini left the company, and the following month Ferruccio Lamborghini assigned Gian Paolo Dallara[4]—with the assistance of Paolo Stanzani and Bob Wallace[3]—the task of developing a production version of the grand tourer.[4]
Dallara and Stanzani quickly realized that the Lamborghini 350GTV was not properly designed for mass production, so they proceeded along parallel lines:[5]
Detuning the original Bizzarrini engine and redesigning the original Bizzarrini chassis for street use,[3] eventually in the 350 GT, and
Readying the GTV for its late-October 1963 Turin Auto Show debut.[5]