Countach, the ultimate supercar

Such nonsense can only be written by someone who does have one... I'm driving my QV for 8 hours without problems!
Do you want to drive an uncomfortable car? then try a 330 GTC like a friend on mine had.

 

not so much IMO
once you get in the car (getting into is an entire other matter LOL ) i find the seats good

if you are under 185 cm tall you could drive any model without any problems IMO, even the LP or lowbody cars

i for myself find the hi roof car from S3 to QV good also for some taller people (obviously if you are over 195-200 cm you will have head room problems (as you would in 99% of sport cars )

 

+1!!! With few words, all is said about Countach, visibility and comfort. It is absolutely no problem to do 1.000 kilometers with a Countach within a day. And rear visibility is far better than most people think and most journalists wrote in the past. Anyway: does rear visibility play a key role here?

 

Joe,

these are very good arguments - therefore it is probable that Marcello Gandini really did the redesign. However, we have to be careful:

1) for that kind of design it seems not to have been necessary to involve Mr. Gandini

2) as far as I know, Marcello Gandini never designed something comparable to the "S" modifications

But the most important thing is that the new style of the Countach was well done. At least, this applies to the lowbody versions (although a lot of people prefer the LP400, so do I).

 

Being of "medium" height (5'-10") I fit these cars in that direction but as I'm a bit "broad-beamed", I find the seats somewhat narrow.

Rear visibility is limited but not as extreme a problem as has been claimed.

 

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This man drove his Countachs from Cannes in the South of France to Edinburgh Scotland to one of his businesses routinely, not to mention everywhere in Europe that a Formula One race took place.

Wonder how far the Cannes-Edinburgh round trip is?

PS - He told me along the way he 'dealt with' a few Ferraris...

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Somebody repainted THIS car? Please tell me I'm missing something because I'm fatigued.

 

Nope, its still in its original color. See post number 220 of this thread.

Note that Steve Dypvik had 4 (four) 4-litre Countach brand new: 1120300, 1121014, 1121016 & 1121036. As I know it, they all remain in their original liveries.

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Per their catalog. Ive inspected this one very closely...


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and 3 of 50 S1!! sure he liked countachs

 

Sure did. LOL...

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Joe, don`t know the VIN of the car but I remember it well (in those days VIN`s are ..."what"????). It belonged to a very big man who run a construction company. He had his main office in the city were I live and had parked this red devil next to the main road. He told me once that he bought it from the Hahne-dealership. This chap got numerous fines for driving flat out on one of the main roads here. Never heared from him or the car again. His company is not existing anymore!

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Walter

 

almost from same angle as that car
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Very nice...

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The pic is from the parking area at the Nurburgring in 1987...


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Two Countach at the Nürburgring in 1985.
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No color changes...Thank goodness. Seems like Mr. Dypvik had great taste
and was a fantastic "original" owner of these cars... a "thank you" to him.

 

I reckon he was great first owner of any Countach. He is still around... with great stories to tell like that of coming home from Bob Wallace's / Phoenix in 1121014 (the Road & Track feature car - attached) and maxing it out to 8,000 rpm in fifth (you could do that sort of thing with the traffic in 1980) and he looks over at his wife and she is reading a book at one-ninety-something!!! Classic.


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The car with the gold tail-badges (yes, real gold, they say) was Armin Johl's early LP500S (12480 if I recall correctly).

Question: Why do Countach owners park so close to each other?

Answer: because they can


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Joe,
why did he bought 3 of them in 1 year?

 

Because he loved them and by his efforts the factory stayed alive a while longer...

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LP400 newly repainted...

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Beautiful.... Salivating....

 

OK Raymond, tell me which on this Swiss-registerd car is: note original 'moody' wing


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