Countach, the ultimate supercar

My Palma 1/43 Countach Wolf
1/10 Tamiya Countach 5000S RC
My poorly built 1/24 Tamiya Wolf on top of Tamiya Rotating Base
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Thank you. I will speak to them about it.

 

Is this a decent RC car? I see these on eBay all the time. Looks good from your pics!

 

This is #1120228.

 

Hi all,

Here is a picture of a Sbarro Countach.
I doný know anything about this car.
Any info? other pictures?

Ciao!
Marcello
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says here as an S
http://www.lp112.com/Lamborghini/Detail.asp?Model=Countach&Version=LP400&offset=50&ChassisNumber=1120228

out of interest would it be worth (both financially & ethically etc) being converted back to original lp400 specs ?

 

pic of 1120228 in S guise on this post (2nd pic)
http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=141677811&postcount=13977

and bigger version of same pic here
http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=141111891&postcount=11504

 

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Hang on - is this black and white photo of the gold car after it crashed on the North Circular in London before it was rebuilt?

 

good call - i would have done it but no pic space left.
and on that note theres a rear pic here - http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=139677354&postcount=6811

 

thats certainly what i thought

 

Here's what happened:

POSTSCRIPT: COUNTACH’S SAD FAREWELL…
High up on London’s A40 Westway, just where it climbs away from Marylebone Road and heads west over the rooftops for Oxford, a metallic gold Lamborghini Countach was being smashed to pieces.

Some fool had chopped across its path mid-bend. It started spinning in great big arcs, thumping into the barrier on one side of the road and being flung back to smash against the other side.

The nose was pounded back to the windscreen in the first gyration, taking the front wheels with it. The side had already gone and, as it slammed into the barrier for the last time, the tail was flattened to the engine – that glorious V12.

I was driving the other way, into London, and saw it happening right there in front of me. I couldn’t believe it. I shouted with anguish…horror…anger. Even in the blur of the destruction, before it had stopped and I had parked to run across and see if the driver was all right, I knew it was my Countach.

We’d only had 48 hours together. But each hour, every single minute, was a jewel that I, and the three others who’d shared the experience, will treasure forever. That Countach, along with the Silhouette and Urraco, was the one that had whisked us halfway across Europe in our epic high-speed convoy.

Its occupants were able to swing the doors up and step out, shaken but uninjured. The windscreen hadn’t broken, even though the nose had been so hideously flattened and the severity of the impact, I’d learn later, had cracked the alloy of the crankcase and transmission. In death, as in life, that car was magnificent.

 

Strange that this detail would be missed, especially considering the large scale & level of detail elsewhere. Nothing else really jumps out at me as being wrong. I'm curious as to whether these are hand built? The "problem" I have with these & the Koyosho 1/12 (or even 1/18) is that they lack a certain realism that can be added to hand built models. Pocher models are very detailed also but still have a "toy-ish" look about them. Of coarse, sometimes a freshly restored 1:1 also has that look, lol
All just my humble opinion anyhow. These are well out of my price range...

 

Yes.
The chasis is the regular tamiya TT01 type E, which has tons of parts available to modify.
I bought the factory-built model which already has the body painted from the factory plus LED lights pre-installed.
The downside is that the Transmitter is basic, the Electronic Speed Control is basic, and the Motor should be upgraded if You wanna race it competitively.
I bought mine for display basically.

 

There seems to be a number of "real" cars out there missing this feature also. Could it be that a restorer would miss it or was it "factory"?

In my opinion, unless a modeler can also scale down the gloss of a model down to say 1/8 the amount of gloss, or 1/18, etc, they will always look toyish.

I will say though that the models from Collector Studio are of the highest integrity and cannot ever be dismissed as "toyish".

 

I certainly am not putting these down in any way...they look amazing! That's why I mentioned that even a restored 1:1 car has the same almost unreal look about them. I bring up the hand built aspect because special paintings techniques can be used to create false shadows & weathering which can add to the realistic look of a model.
I'd really love to build a 1:8 Countach (or the Miura kit that's in the works)

 

Joe - I think the gent from the Isle of Man is called Tony - the Bianco/Rosso QV is now with David C in Queensland Aus. It is an 87 still completely original.

 

Exactly what I meant, thanks!

 

Robert,

There is one RHD Silver/dark red car in Sydney Australia - its been converted to "S" spec with a flat roof - I don't know the vin but have posted a picture at page 324 of this thread.