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  1. SupercarGuru

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    #11176 SupercarGuru, Dec 15, 2011
    : ) Thank you!
     
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    #11177 joe sackey, Dec 15, 2011
    Question: would you like to drive in it?
     
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    #11178 joe sackey, Dec 15, 2011
    Andy:

    I'm not sure Hunter S Thompson's life should be a blueprint for any of us.

    After all, he had a lifelong abuse of alcohol, LSD, mescaline, and cocaine (among other substances), and while suffering a bout of health problems, he committed suicide in 2005.
     
  4. ApexOversteer

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    #11179 ApexOversteer, Dec 15, 2011
    Joe posts pic of 1121002...

    Someone goes "ooo"...

    Joe goes "How'd you like to see it?"...

    Someone else goes "ooo"...

    Joe goes "How'd you like a drive in it?"...

    I'm sensing a trend...

    Maybe the next time someone goes "ooo" he's gonna say "How'd you like to own it?"
     
  5. joe sackey

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    #11180 joe sackey, Dec 15, 2011
    Its definitely not available. Promise.
     
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    #11181 ApexOversteer, Dec 15, 2011
    Assuming the green Museo car is priceless and will never reside outside the factory, are the Wolf Modificato LP400's and LP400S 1121002 the most valuable Countach variants on the planet? Most valuable Lamborghinis full stop?

    Discuss.
     
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    #11182 Jalpa_Mike, Dec 15, 2011
    +1
     
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    #11183 joe sackey, Dec 15, 2011
    Possibly.
     
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    #11187 SMS, Dec 15, 2011
    Very nice. I'd like to see more shots of that one.
     
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    Very hard to find period images. Here is one of 1120202 showing short shifter and F1 steering that all the Wolf cars had.
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    #11192 joe sackey, Dec 15, 2011
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    Personally I think the Wolf cars are important in Lamborghini's history because he personally funded the development of the LP400 into the Countachs beyond. He saved the factory I think. Supercars today all descend from the principles he employed. He told me he looked at his F1 car and knew that the LP400 had to have parallel-linked suspension, spoke to Dallara and the rest is history.

    Wolf in the Pits at the Long Beach Grand Prix 1978.
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    #11193 ApexOversteer, Dec 15, 2011
    The Wolf cars, particularly the Modificato LP400's 0158 and 0202, have to be the ultimate Countach variants. To own and drive one would be like having Leonardo's sketches for "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room...
     
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    #11194 joe sackey, Dec 15, 2011
    It is 0148. I agree those are very special. Of the two 202 is the better car. But for me 1002 embodies everything Dallara & Wolf wanted in a F1-inspired Countach. And in that signature Wolf Racing dark blue... a thing of beauty.
     
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    #11195 Wade, Dec 15, 2011
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    I received this poster from CAR magazine awhile back, is this your car as well?
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    #11196 ApexOversteer, Dec 15, 2011
    Indeed, 0148, fat fingers.

    Speaking of The Red One, thanks to Japan, that has to be one of the the most modeled single specific cars that wasn't driven by Batman or the Duke Boys.

    Also, 0202 intrigues me. You see photos of it both with and without the crazy swoopy side mirrors I believe it currently wears. Do we know from whence those mirrors came?
     
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    #11197 ApexOversteer, Dec 15, 2011
    Interesting that with all the angles at work on the perspective of this photo, the Testarossa looks distorted, yet the Countach still looks "right".
     
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    #11198 Wade, Dec 15, 2011
    True, however, a TR almost never looks good in pictures. In this case it appears as though the photographer used a wide-angle lens. That'll distort the closer/center object even more.
     
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    #11199 Marcello, Dec 15, 2011
    This is #1121266. Ex USA, when it arrived in Holland in 1989 it was still white, with white interior, and fitted with USA bumpers etc. Ciao! Marcel
     
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    #11200 geno berns, Dec 15, 2011
    I thought the same, but Joe confirmed... NOPE.

     
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