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  1. stlouis

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    #8751 stlouis, Jan 10, 2011
    Can we conclude that the LP400S with the hand brake lever on the left side of the seat are actually those LP400 that where transformed into LP400S at some point ?


    Or would that be much too simple ?
     
  2. BlueBiturbo

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    #8752 BlueBiturbo, Jan 10, 2011
    +1
    Yessss
     
  3. Peter K.

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    #8753 Peter K., Jan 10, 2011
    hmmmmmm, next to an AMC Pacer.......interesting
     
  4. joe sackey

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    #8754 joe sackey, Jan 10, 2011
    Yes.
     
  5. GIOTTO

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    #8755 GIOTTO, Jan 10, 2011
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    Unfortunatelly, Dino Crescentini, owner and pilot of the Wolf-Dallara, lost his life in this car at Mosport racetrack in 2008. Just Google his name for more information.
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  6. stlouis

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    #8756 stlouis, Jan 10, 2011
    Thanks, I'm slowly being given a few solid facts I can really trust.

    Joe, is your book giving all these details ?
    Will buy one day anyhow, just curious in advance...

    Cheers,
    Emmanuel
     
  7. joe sackey

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    #8757 joe sackey, Jan 10, 2011
    Well, I'm currently on the 288 GTO book. So, although I have a lot of archived data, it will appear in a publication several years down the line. But, this thread is always a good place to exchange information about the car that made Lamborghini famous..
     
  8. joe sackey

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    #8758 joe sackey, Jan 10, 2011
    Indeed, it was published in a Classic Car magazine just after the incident..
     
  9. joe sackey

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    #8759 joe sackey, Jan 10, 2011
    To elaborate on your question, there is no logical reason for an LP400S (or any Countach for that matter) to have a left-side handbrake lever, other than the fact that it had a previous life as an LP400. Of course the remote possibility exists that the car has been thus modified, but the trained eye can spot that in an instant.
     
  10. joe sackey

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    #8761 joe sackey, Jan 10, 2011
    The green & gold Countach Forbes had built was a car he took delivery of. In fact there are pictures of him with it in this thread, and others of him with Liz Taylor in the car, sitting on those gold-flake seats!!

    FWIW it was a USA spec 1987 Countach, not a 25th.
     
  12. joe sackey

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  13. Countachqv

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    #8763 Countachqv, Jan 10, 2011
    Amazing document! Thank you Joe for givcing that Xmas gift.
     
  14. raymondQV

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    #8764 raymondQV, Jan 10, 2011
    My bedroom wall was not lime green, but the countach was there :)
     
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    #8765 LP 400, Jan 10, 2011
    Have anywhere an LP400 for sale in red or yellow or other colors? I am looking for a long time on a LP400
    Thanks:)
     
  16. stlouis

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    #8766 stlouis, Jan 10, 2011
    Same green as the LP500, right ;-)
     
  17. joe sackey

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    #8767 joe sackey, Jan 10, 2011
    "Riccardo Fontes", please stop wasting everyone's time.

    This thread is an enthusiast's resource to the mutual benefit of the people who exchange information here. It is not a place where pretenders, trouble-makers or wannabees last very long.

    You have contacted me on multiple occasions (along with other brokers who have compared notes with me) and each time you have been invited to take the next step, your response has been exactly nothing at all.

    Perhaps I can refresh your memory:

    http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=140132141&postcount=8442

    http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=140132349&postcount=8449

    http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=140132374&postcount=8452

    Your entire so-called quest for your "father's" long-lost LP400 is a farce. First it was a yellow car sold to Illiinois that you were seeking. Then it was any LHD yellow LP400. Then it was a RHD yellow LP400. Now it is a red OR a yellow or any color LP400.

    Your posts speak for themselves:

    http://ferrarichat.com/forum/search.php?searchid=4457407

    In the year that you have been contacting me, I have sold 3 (three) LP400. The last one within the past month. Yes, it was red. Yes there is another LP400 available. However the seller has instructed me thus: "No time-wasters, please".
     
  18. paul328

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    #8768 paul328, Jan 10, 2011
    I have always been a bit weird. I had a pic of an attractive black woman on a harley! but it was the 70's and I was a teenager!

    I first saw a countach in glasgow in 1977 in convoy with a bora and a 911 turbo. Turned my fiat 127 around and followed them to the garage much to the annoyance of my then girlfriend.
    As any sensible man would do I dumped her and kept perving on cars!

    Paul
    xxx
     
  19. DadsFerrari

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    #8769 DadsFerrari, Jan 10, 2011
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    I am reposting this pic from the Countach Fire Thread. Now it is chronicled in this great thread here. I should have added a money jar with sign inside the door of the Countach lol

    I've been giving this neglected 89 AE some thought; I seriously want to start a thread titled-

    " I'm a Homeless Derelict Countach , can you spare some change "

    I know this Randy might take some offense, but if a bunch of us pitch in $5 a head to at least buy this unloved car a decent/safe car cover, maybe it will make a point to this unusual owner
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  20. Peter K.

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    #8770 Peter K., Jan 10, 2011
    I can not say anything bad about Randy because I will most likely see him again.
    If he sees this board he will blame/question me. I'm guilty.
    But, however, that will not stop me from busting his ball about what he is NOT doing with that car.
    Wish it wasn't such a rough winter here in Connecticut.....I'd drive the Urraco over and visit.
     
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    #8771 DadsFerrari, Jan 10, 2011
    Eventually someone on some car forum would have outed the owner. Being ostracized publicly should not be a surprise when you own and disregard a 6 figure car (especially on the lawn of a small home, that does have an enclosed garage)
     
  22. roytoy2003

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    #8772 roytoy2003, Jan 10, 2011
    I have stated many a time..my 400 periscopa, Red/Black is for sale..but the first figure needs to be a 7....with 5 other figures behind it and the decmial point at the end.

    Out of market range...maybe..but then go find another one..
     
  23. Jet-X

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    #8773 Jet-X, Jan 10, 2011
    Ok, there is one on Ebay right now - is anyone in this thread bidding on it? If so, I refrain. Otherwise, I'm going to buy it and make a digital version that I'll share with people.

    Let me know by Wednesday - otherwise I'm bidding on it.
     
  24. paul328

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    #8774 paul328, Jan 11, 2011
    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzcS51jr-g&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

    Wish i could drive with this control!!
    Great vid form about 1.40
     
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