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Mark Smeyers

Mark is the enthusiast site, Lamborghini is his passion, collecting books and scale model cars on the Sant'Agata company for decades, he has been able to visit the Lamborghini factory several times already.

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Mar 18, 2002

AUTOMOTORSPORT BEURS

The weekend of March 15th to March 17th 2002 was the scene for the AutoMotorSport event in Zuidlaren, in the Prins Bernardhoeve to be exact, during this three day show a very nice collection of Lamborghini’s was presented. The Lamborghini Club Nederland had it’s own stand on the show, and we were able to show…

Feb 5, 2002

Italian Passion

During the weekend of February 2nd and 3rd 2002 the Expo in Gent, Belgium was the arena for a large gathering of Italian automobiles, at least that was how it was advertised all over the place, I must admit, there were a lot of Italian cars, Ferrari, a few Maserati and a grand total of…

Oct 29, 2001

AUTO-MOTO-ITALIA 2001

The place to be during the weekend of October 27th 2001 was again Houten, near Utrecht in The Netherlands, just about everything built in Italy that is capable of driving around was be shown here. Auto Moto d’Italia is actually a rather general event, showing Italian wheels, both cars and bikes in fact, a nice…

Sep 10, 2001

IAA FRANKFURT 2001

Just after a select group of invited people saw the new Lamborghini Murciélago at the factory in Italy, it was time to unveil this new car to the public during the 59th edition of the famous Frankfurt Auto Show. The new Lamborghini Murciélago was unveiled at what is known as the world’s largest Motor Show,…

Sep 10, 2001

SANT’AGATA INTRODUCTION OF THE MURCIÉLAGO EVENT

Sant’Agata, September 2001, the presentation of the Murciélago. During the weekend of September 8 2001, Automobili Lamborghini SpA organized a massive event to which they invited just about everybody who actually owns a Lamborghini or was connected to an authorized Lamborghini club. Lamborghini enthusiasts from all over the world gathered in Sant’Agata Bologna by Saturday…

Aug 6, 2001

LES 24H DE SPA FRANCORCHAMPS 2001

For the 2001 edition of the 24 hours of Spa Francorchamps in Belgium three Lamborghini Diablo GTR’s were able to qualify, these cars with numbers 93, 95 and 96 started on Saturday, August 4th on exactly 16:00:00 in the afternoon to try and finish a very difficult race, a 24 hour non-stop competition. A total…

Jun 5, 2001

VIVA ITALIA 2001

On June 4th 2001, the Lamborghini Club Nederland and VDB-Promotions organized the by now famous Viva Italia event on the TT circuit in Assen, The Netherlands, again this single day event became one of the major Italian Car events. This year a very impressive collection of about 40 Lamborghinis were present, together with a massive…