Dr Thillainathan Pathmanathan's fascination with Lamborghinis was spiked at the age of eight by the Marzal concept car and has never waned since. His primary interest is in the wedge-shaped, longitudinal mid-engined, spaceframe-chassised, Bizzarrini-engined, Lamborghini flagships. He has authored the world's first stand-alone books on the KTM X-BOW and Lamborghini Murcielago, and has written books on the Countach and Diablo as well as a dodecalogy of travel inspired socio-politico-economic essays. Dr Pathmanathan boarded at Cheltenham College, then obtained his medical degree from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, with a degree in Physiology from the University of London en-route. He trained as an eye surgeon in London, Southampton and Liverpool before undertaking a specialist Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of Toronto and was appointed a Consultant Eye Surgeon in 1999. He has nurtured Countach Chassis JLA12399, a totally factory standard Rosso Siviglia 88 1/2 5000 QV - one of only 14 such right-hand drive cars in the world – since 2001, and Murcielago Chassis 1564 - an unaltered Arancio Atlas 2005 Roadster - since 2014. His most precious automotive memories are of interviewing Paolo Stanzani, Giampaolo Dallara, Umberto Marchesi, and Marcello Gandini.






