Countach, the ultimate supercar

To be fair, it did look real but I wasn't going to claim it was as I couldn't be 100% sure! Very nice car you have there.

 

Nice!

Your new building?

 

Very cool.

 

The black COuntach at the top is right hand drive (also see the position of the wiper, which confirms this). Where were the photos on the web - can you post a link?

 

There was a revival of the tv show "the saint" in 1987 called "the saint in manhattan" which never got past the pilot, but the main character drove a black countach. The quality here sucks but cool to see it driving by grand central station, on park ave to the Waldorf. Starting at the 3:00 mark.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFXQC9RRslc&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/ame]

 

So that is where HotWheels got the idea for those ugly wheels in the late 80s and early 90s!

 

Can anyone tell me if the www.Lamborghiniregistry.com is still an active site ? It seems it is never updated and the posts are all very old.

 

Good question. I let my membership lapse because there was almost never any valuable information when I looked up a car.

 

Here you go Robert: http://www.alburtoni.com/BodyShop/projects.htm

 

You're lucky, it automatically charges me every year.........where is all our money going to every year?
Glenn really needs to let go and let all of us owners have access, it'll be a success. He'll never be able to update all the cars in this lifetime.

 

See above answer.

 

The entire premise of converting that site to a pay site was ill conceived. I never quite understood why I should pay to see the very information I (and other enthusiasts) sent in. Part of the rationale given at the time was that if it was a pay site, there would be time and money to update everything. Since I never paid, I didn't know if it was being updated, but based on the comments, it appears it isn't. It's a shame really, because the information is useful and makes for an interesting read.

 

Scoot, isn't that car the 1st KLA non anniv (12408) from Pa a few years ago?
there are more than 5 KLAs. I counted a potential of 16 with 8 confirms
Joe's VIN of the grey KLA with black rear bumpers from CA is unknown to me. That is one more from the 8.

 

I did not think there were that many KLA non Anniversary cars. Could you list the 8 you have confirmed ? It would be great info.

 

KLA12408 is the first, KLA12424 is the last...

 

I have been told that they skip numbers sometimes so I guess the only way to really tell is if all those cars can be identified at some point. To say that there are X amount of cars built because of the number spread may or may not be true. I have found 5 cars that exist for certain. Also, how can anyone prove that KLA12424 was in fact the last made.

 

Here's the ones I'm aware of, by colour and last known location:

ZA9CA05A5KLA12408 LHD Silver USA
ZA9CA05A5KLA12411 LHD Pearl White USA
ZA9CA05A9KLA12413 LHD White USA
ZA9Cxx5xxKLA12424 LHD Muira Blue USA

 

Tell us something which is not common knowledge...

KLA12408 1989 ~ Silver Black Todd Abrams, NJ, USA.
KLA12411 1989 ~ Pearl White Red Chicoga. IL, USA.
~ LA12412 1988 ~ Bianco ~ Torino, I.
KLA12413 LHD White USA
~ LA12415 1988 ~ Red Cream RHD. Rear wing. 35,000 miles. Located in Europe.
KLA12421 1989 New York, New York.
KLA12424 1989 Miura Blue White The last US 5000QV.

 

From Glen who runs ILR:

> Robert,
>
> For the past little while we had been focusing on updating info on
> cars already listed as well as working on the new upcoming version of
> the Registry that will be fully searchable and include much more detailed info.
> So we are still operating even though there have not been many
> additions of new pages recently. These are coming very shortly along
> with our new monthly newsletter which will introduce some new
> features.

 

Raymond, ~LA12415 I've seen listed as JLA12415, indicating a pre-September 1988 build, rather than a KLA prefix. Ditto for ~LA12412.

Thanks for adding KLA12421 - any more out there, anyone ?

 

yep. and ~LA12410 in the UK a RHD.

anyone can add to that ? The grey car from Joe is not in this list

 

So unless I am missing something I see 5 "1989" cars listed. The others are 1988 cars with the 10th digit being a J and not a K.

 

What? Focusing info on current cars? It's not fully searchable? Well, I guess we'll sit tight.