Countach, the ultimate supercar

Thank you.

Are you leaving? Or getting a Countach? Not sure what you mean...

 

A re-post of course, but still, entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9VxeN7G9I

 

Entertainment, that's all.

 

Well here is what Clarkson said on Times Online:

"As a 14-year-old boy when I first saw a Countach, I couldn’t believe any of it. Not the noise. Not the lowness – it was only 42in tall. Not the vast rear wing. Not the monstrous size of the tyres. And certainly not the claims that it would do 270km/h. At the time, you must remember, the world was a slower place so 270km/h was about Mach 6.’

‘It was many years before I actually got to drive one, and oh my God ... as disappointments go, this was like getting your girlfriend’s kit off for the first time and discovering she had an Adam’s apple.’

‘The steering wasn’t heavy. An elephant is heavy. A school is heavy. An American is heavy. The Lambo’s steering was in another league. Sometimes, you’d try to turn the wheel to go round a corner and, for a fleeting moment, you actually thought the whole system had jammed.’

‘And then there was the clutch. If they’d set the pedal in concrete, it would have been easier to depress. And all the while, you were rammed into a space that was tiny and very, very hot. I’m sure you’ve all seen The Bridge on the River Kwai hundreds of times, which means I’m also sure you remember the box in which Alec Guinness was made to live. Well, imagine being in there, on a sweaty day, while doing a full SAS workout, at 270km/h. That’s what it was like in a Countach.’

‘Parking, however, was even worse because you could not see out of the back, at all. The window would only wind down an inch. The car was wider than the owner of a Cheshire tanning salon and, to complicate everything even more, you could be assured you would be trying to get kerbside while under the scrutiny of a very sizable audience.’

‘You might have imagined as you took delivery of your new Lamborghini that you would spend the rest of your life drowning in girls. Afraid not. Because you didn’t step out of a Countach; you crawled out, sweating, exhausted and dehydrated to the point of death. Sex? It was the absolute last thing on your mind…"



Having said all that, he included the Countach on the list of his All-time Favorite cars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQPjgzV1kA

 

Yeah Clarkson let his guard down on one show and said words to the effect:

"they are too hot inside, downright uncomfortable, too loud, difficult to drive, smelly, impossible to to see out of ... God, I want one!"

 

So true.

But actually that was Derek Bell, 5-times Le Mans winner.

 

Can someone ask Kanye to keep his boots off his Countach, and stop driving it through the salt of the dry lake bed!
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The open road...
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I think this is 1120136
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LP400S S3 that showed up for the F40 launch in 1988 in France.

Chassis number anyone?
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I could not resist.

 

I met Mike Taylor shortly after he picked up 12155 (quattrovalvole downdraft) from Sant Agata 23 years ago. Its special-order interior remains original & immaculate all these years later despite the fact that he covered over 20,000 miles in it.
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