How to Complete a Road Trip in Vintage Lamborghinis in Under Five Disasters

A flotilla of four old Lamborghini Espadas and one 1967 400 GT was bound for the Pebble Beach weekend last August in a big, merry, 60-cylinder convoy. However, the scheduled midday departure from L.A. was frantic due to a last-minute need to replace my Espada’s Girling brake boosters, which were weeping as if Jimmy Swaggart had been a previous owner. Luckily, my pals Bob Huber, who personally rebuilt his Espada from a written-off wreck, and Laust Pedersen, a mad scientist who modified his Espada with fuel injection and catalytic converters (after adding turbos to his other car, a Lamborghini Jalpa), had a spare pair. The only problem, they told me, was that the boosters didn’t work very well. And sometimes they locked and didn’t want to stop working. I bolted them in. READ MORE ››

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