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For decades, it was believed this car never even existed, the silver metallic Lamborghini 3500 GTZ built on chassis 0322. Many were adamant that only chassis 0310 was even finished by Zagato, the white on black Lamborghini 3500 GTZ, but original documentation, and photos made by actual people who worked at Lamborghini back in 1965, definitely show two units of the 3500 GTZ, but chassis 0322 didn’t go on to become one of the rarest Lamborghinis ever.

Chassis 0322 was finished in silver metallic over a black interior, and none other than Paolo Stanzani got hold of it. Remember, he was the factory development driver back in those days, and he used it as a daily driver. But here, history starts to wander a little.

Some sources state it was sold to someone in the United States of America, where the car was involved in an accident, but got repaired, and it was sold to Japan or Hong Kong. Other sources mention the car did end up in the USA, crashed, and was damaged beyond repair, lost forever.

But during a talk with actual Lamborghini mechanics during a Concorso Italiano in 2002 it was confirmed that chassis 0322 was in fact involved in a serious accident in Italy just eight months after it was built, so in 1966 already, and the car was subsequently completely disassembled; it no longer exists.

And that would also explain why we only see photos of chassis 0310, the white car, repainted in red, later repainted in white again, and no photos of the silver car have been published in any magazine, ever, but there is a photo published online of chassis 0322 at the 1965 Turin Motor Show, on the Zagato stand, and it shows a few modifications compared to the first chassis.

The silver metallic Lamborghini 3500 GTZ had a slightly different front grille insert, while they added air vents behind the front wheels on the front fender, and lastly, a pair of windshield wipers were now fitted, replacing the single unit on chassis 0310, but it seems we’ll never be able to see chassis 0322 ever again.

Back to our 1/18 scale model from Maxima, which is mentioned to be a limited edition model made exclusively for Carmodel.com in Italy, I managed to add all three shades released on this scale model, so I can compare all of them against each other.

And while Maxima had great attention to detail when they released the red version with RHD, just like the real car, and the white one in LDH with a grey interior, again, just like the real car that still exists today, on this silver metallic release, they missed a few details.

This silver metallic release is exactly the same model as the white one, with LHD, but a black interior, just like chassis 0322 would have been in 1965, but they completely missed the fact that this later chassis came with two windshield wipers, had a different front grill, and had air vents cut into the front fenders behind the wheels ... so in the end, this silver metallic model is a fantasy model, but I can somewhat look over that, as not much information is actually available for chassis 0322, and they couldn’t compare it to a real car anymore.

So in the end, I’m still quite happy with these classic GTs Maxima released on a 1/18 scale, with Ricko having released the Lamborghini 350 GT, KK Scale released the Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2, Cult having released the Islero a while ago, and CMR made a Jarama, add the Espada and we are now able to add just about every classic Lamborghini V12 Gran Turismo to our collection.

Originally released in December 2025.

our RATING

Exterior		8/10
Interior		7/10
Engine	Not visible
Accuracy		8/10
Overall rating		7/10

Original price on December 23, 2025 : € 171