Countach, the ultimate supercar

So even back then the Paris pharmacy stores had the annoying neon blinking cross?
Love Paris but those don't seem to fit in with the atmosphere. Would love to see those cars on her streets.

 

The white Countach was purchased by Stephane Ratel whilst he was living in the USA not far from where I live - hence side-markers. He sold it to Johannes B in St Moritz, who, I might add is not only from the Palace Hotels family, but is still the World Record Holder of the Cresta Run from Junction on down!

Tidi G owned the grigio Annivesario with the UK registration...

 

The world is really small... since I used to live one building away from Mr. Ratel in Paris at that time. He happened to own (or use, I don't really know) a lot of exoticas that were usually parked in front of his house: very nice!

 

Very Small World...

 

Ex-South African LP400...

Kurt Blythman images
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From the 70s:

An interesting LP400 purchased from Achilli Motors (Milan).
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They are all interesting. Especially when orange.

 

Amazing car. I love the pictures.

 

The Countach QVX with drivers Baldi and Needell. Still in Japan?
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Those pictures are absolutely AMAZING!!! Thanks a lot for sharing.
Where did you get them? It seems that they are taken from a movie.

 

i remember a 70's italian movie (not famous!) with an LP400
i thought it was red but may be i remember not so well since i saw it some 4 years go by accident

 

i think it is

last time i had seen pics it had plates on and was driven on the street (as it should! )

 

+1

 

The photos are from the Italian movie "Che dottoressa ragazzi" - you can see more photos at www.imcdb.org/

 

Yes I think the movie was shot in the late 70s...

 

Here you go!

Ciao!
Marcel
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Yes it is still in Japan.

Lets not get carried away - this is a full-blooded Group C race car, the operation of which on the street is a futile exercise. Unfortunately, we see racing cars operated on the street, thankfully on rare occasions, but its simply to strike a pose until the next set of traffic lights.

The QVX was a fascinating project that I was personally familiar with as I had just purchased my first Countach in the mid-80s. I was able to inspect it carefully at Portman's West London premises with David Joliffe's permission and lets say it was quite impressive. It was built on Spice Chassis number SL8501 and the engines were units supplied to David by Luigi Marmirolli at Automobili Lamborghini SpA having 'breathed' 650 bhp into them. Whats interesting (to Diablo owners at least) is that the Countach QV's 5.2 litre unit was 'blown' into a 5.7 litre for use in the QVX.

Successful, it was not. But a part of Lamborghini's history, it remains.

http://www.qv500.com/lamborghiniqvxp1.php
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Is that car Fuel Injected?

Joe Frazar

 

Yes, I believe it is.

 

Perhaps I am missing something but this Group C car has almost nothing that I can see that is Countach on it. It looks like nothing more than a Lamborghini powered Spice whose engine bore (no pun intended ) a vague resemblence to a production engine.

 

Yes, the only Lamborghini component in the car was the engine.

Having said that, the engine is a pretty big/important component!!

The fact that the engine was tuned up to race spec with a bigger displacement is typical of these situations. The fact remains that it was a group C car using a Countach engine tuned by the factory.

 

Lets not forget then how many championships were won in 'Countach' offshore powerboats

 

Rob:

The 8.2 litre and 9.3 litre Lamborghini Marine engines as used in the World Offshore Class powerboats have absolutely nothing to do with Lamborghini cars, Countachs, or any other.

The point made about the so-called Countach QVX is that they simply used a tuned Countach QV engine. On the other hand, the offshore powerboats used in the Championships you are obviously referring to had huge engines with twice the displacement of the cars, built from scratch specifically for marine application.

Best,

 

I respectfully stand corrected.

 

I agree with your well-made point that the use of the moniker "Countach QVX" was taking the liberty of a bit of poetic license, but, at least it did truly have a Countach engine in it.