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  1. raymondQV

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    #5326 raymondQV, Jan 2, 2010
    Del Prado perhaps.
     
  2. S_A

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  3. EMILIO

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    #5328 EMILIO, Jan 3, 2010
    this car i think sold in France a couple years ago
    i lost note of the VIN, sorry
     
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  5. raymondQV

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    #5330 raymondQV, Jan 3, 2010
    That's the L150, it has a normal QV FI engine as far as I know, I never heard or saw more than rumours about this mistirious 7l engine which looks more like dreaming of installing the marine engine into the too narrow Countach engine bay.
     
  6. BlueBiturbo

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    #5331 BlueBiturbo, Jan 3, 2010
    Yup.. L150 in japan
     
  7. em42

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    #5332 em42, Jan 3, 2010
    Nice!
    It could be a modified 1974 LP400 since it has the periscopa roof. Some LP400S also had this roof if I remember correctly, but they are very rare.
    Joe probably knows its VIN.
     
  8. EMILIO

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    #5333 EMILIO, Jan 3, 2010
    it is a modified LP400
     
  9. Peter K.

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    #5334 Peter K., Jan 3, 2010
    +1
    I still do not agree with what he did with this car. Sometimes art is a waste.
     
  10. EMILIO

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    #5335 EMILIO, Jan 3, 2010
    at least he could have put it back to LP400 slim look and sold bravos to one of us! ;)
     
  11. S_A

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    #5336 S_A, Jan 3, 2010
    YEP, the clean lines of an orginal LP400 could be much more special than modifieds.
    And there was mentioned; the engine was droven totally end, maybe the owner of the car hasn't got afford to pay the engine rebuild. Who knows.

    Anyway; thank you for the answers!
     
  12. joe sackey

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    #5337 joe sackey, Jan 3, 2010
    "LP7000" is a figment of somebody's fertile imagination, a moniker aimed solely at suggesting that this car had a 7 litre engine.

    It does not.

    As Raymond suggested, it has a Countach 5 litre engine.
     
  13. joe sackey

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    #5338 joe sackey, Jan 3, 2010
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    I came across a 9-minute video of a black Japanese Countach Annivesario driving at speeds of up to 180 mph (the camera actually shows the speedo) in the rain! Unfortunately I cant find any way to download the video and perhaps somebody else will recognize the one Im talking about, and they can post it. Try that with an earlier car! Anyway I can think of only one man brave enough to do it...
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  14. joe sackey

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    #5339 joe sackey, Jan 3, 2010
    As already stated, the car is an LP400 owned by local entrepreneur Dick Moriarty. I am not at liberty to share the chassis number. The car has some LP400S upgrades such as spats & Bravo wheels as one can clearly see - no mystery there or nothing unusual because at least 2 dozen LP400 have undergone this type of transformation at one point or another. The car needed restoration and he simply decided to stick it on the wall where it will remain better preserved than some people store their cars! Remember, he could always take it down at some point, restore it and drive it. As for your speculation that the owner perhaps cannot afford the cost of an engine rebuild, rest assured, that's not a problem for him!
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  15. gamby

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    #5340 gamby, Jan 3, 2010
    I'd love to see pics of the house--it looks rather modern just form those shots.

    On one hand, it's a waste of a Countach (no that it's being destroyed), on the other hand, it is such a beautiful car that it makes sense as an art installation, IMHO.

    I thought it was a neat thing to do when I first saw that article way back when.
     
  16. joe sackey

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    #5341 joe sackey, Jan 3, 2010
    The way he looks at it is that he gets to see it more than most Countach owners see theirs!
     
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  18. zxttfan

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    #5343 zxttfan, Jan 3, 2010
    New poster here and like everyone one else grew up idolizing the Countach. I've spent the last few weeks reading the thread and came across the Walter Payton Countach posting. As I recall, I remember seeing Payton's car at Lake Forest Sports Cars in the late 1980's/early 1990's. I believe a salesman mentioned the car had been traded on a TR. Not sure what happened to it after that.

    Also, I remember seeing an unusual light blue metallic Countach (almost a Ferrari Azzuro Blue) with wing in Houston in the mid 1980's. Does anyone know anything about that car?
     
  19. ken qv

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    #5344 ken qv, Jan 4, 2010
    Super cute pic Joe.
    the payton ct is dark/navy blue.
     
  20. Jalpa_Mike

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    #5345 Jalpa_Mike, Jan 4, 2010
    Great picture Joe! One thing for sure, her little feet would have no problems down in the pedal box area, hitting multiple pedals at the same time, like us large footed guys!! :)

    Mike
     
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    #5346 S_A, Jan 4, 2010
    OK, thanks for details. :)
     
  22. joe sackey

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    #5347 joe sackey, Jan 4, 2010
    4 sure!
     
  23. Lel

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    #5348 Lel, Jan 4, 2010
    Hello!

    No doubt about it, it's a LP400, one of the first narrow Countaches. The rear suspension are of the older type with the reversed lower wishbone instead of the one with two parallell bars connected to the frame with two bolts which was introduced with the 400S. The front spoiler and the fender extensions seems to be the newer plastic ones instead af the aluminum variants that belonged to the factory "S"-kit to modernize the older Periscopas.

    The rear suspension of the LP400 must have been top in those days. Not just the Countach was constructed that way. I found the same construction on my DeTomaso Mangustas and my friends Divas and Lotus 47 and it was also very common on the Formula 1 cars of those days.

    Best Regards from a cold Sweden.

    Lars-Erik
     
  24. joe sackey

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    #5349 joe sackey, Jan 4, 2010
    Yes, here is a quote from Sports Illustrated.

    "Holmes, the Mississippi lawyer who helped negotiate the clause that specifies a $100,000 bonus for Payton from the Bears for breaking the rushing record—he'll get a $125,000 midnight-blue, 12-cylinder Lamborghini Countach-S from the Kangaroo Shoe Company"

    My understanding was that the 1985 Countach LP500S was built for him, and was Blu Acapulco.
     
  25. joe sackey

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    #5350 joe sackey, Jan 5, 2010
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    I'm in 0056 cruising around sunny Laguna Niguel this past Sunday and I stop to take some pics, probably only because I lug my trusty Canon everywhere.

    I noticed this unit of portable buildings and I thought, oh this will make a nice backdrop, Ill pull up here. Upon finishing a few pics, I noticed the sign on the building: Office if the District Attorney. How appropriate. Good thing it was a Sunday or there might have been some 'splaining to do as to why an orange Lamborghini using Haiti plates was parked right outside his office with the rumbling V12 making his windows rattle!
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