Countach, the ultimate supercar

Barry Robinson's QV wore the plate B888MLN then became BR33. This car is C323BYV, and in UK number plates the "B" and "C" at the start denote different years, so surely these are different cars?

Barry Robinsom had five red Countachs I think - certainly his Anniversary, non-skirted QV and a S (400S or 500S or 5000S) are well known, but not sure what the others are.

 

i know of 4 for sure

400S
5000S
Qv
Anniversary

and yes all red, and all afaik with the BR33 plate (which is now on a Rolls Royce)

 

Sorry - three posts in a row for me.

This LP400 cover car is another mystery.

It is clearly a RHD silver LP400 registered KWT689N.

There were only 6 RHD LP400 imported into the UK, none of which were silver.

Also, of the LP400 RHD cars to other markets, none were silver either.

So which car is this? It is a mystery.
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I have done so and will advise of the results.... and then try to track down the gold RHD LP400 that was in Autocar!

 

Somewhere from my memory I seem to recall that a gold Countach was crashed and possibly written off a long time ago. It may have been on here.

I saw a gold Countach at the Earls Court Motorshow together with two other gold Lamborghinis, can't remember what year it was. Could that be the same car?

 

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Yes, that was it! The cars were driven from the factory to the motorshow and the trip was an article in Autocar - it was a gold LP400, a Uracco and a Silhouette I think.

You don't happen to have a photo from the Motor Show back then do you?

 

Robert, I wish I had a camera back then! I didn't unfortunately. I remember someone being allowed to sit in the Countach and he had to remove his shoes first. It was very crowded around the Lamborghini stand.

I think I know the article you are referring to, I have that magazine in a box somewhere (was it Autocar? - I can't remember.) I think it has been on this forum some months ago (if I recall correctly).

 

Mel Nichols fabulous 70's story about driving 3 brand new Lamborghinis back from the factory to the UK

 

quite sure I read this article online, with link found in this forum. I don't have the link now tho...

 

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/CAR-Features-2009/CARS-greatest-adventure-drives/CARs-great-drives-Convoy-Part-1/

 

WOW! Fantastic models! I'd love to see one up close...

 

Do you know something I don't? How do you check for a registration circa 1977?

 

What accident - do you know what happened and when? Clearly the car made it to the Motor Show (!), but what happened next?

 

Yes, I thought it seemed more like a CAR feature than an AUTOCAR one. We had some great car magazines back then.

 

Robert, I think it had an accident some time after the Motorshow, not before it. Can't find where I got that from, did a search here but couldn't find it.

 

This is almost certainly a UK trade plate (three digits and two letters) and was most likely used by Phillips (Berlinetta Italia) to whom both the RHD Silhouette and the RHD P300 (actually a P250 body with 3000 engine) were delivered in October 1976 and featured in the Convoy article in Car Magazine with the Countach.

Try as I might I have been unable to find a picture of the three gold cars at Earls Court 1976.

The Lamborghini UK import figures for RHD cars will not include those imported by Phillips hence the "unknown" RHD UK cars.

 

I've been waiting for this a long time from them and have been following it closely. Not as a nitpicker but as a perfectionist (to a fault), is there anything you can spot with the limited photos that strikes you as being not right. This is something I've waited 25 years for and am just curious. I was wondering if the area directly behind the 3/4 rear window and the
air scoop should be painted black.

Once again, sorry to nitpick. They should be praised for doing justice to this great icon.
Congrats on what is probably now the finest Countach model ever built!