Countach owners "must have" pictures

This plane is DC9-14 I-TIGA as can been seen from the nose lettering. And I-TIGI had 2 over wing exits each side whereas I-TIGA only had 1.

-mick

 

i think everyone tried to get the same picture.... here are my two
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Thank you Mick, i did not know: i'm sorry for the error, i'm not an airplane expert, i just know a bit about the Ustica story.

What is your opinion about that Ustica tragedy? Do you believe there was an air battle between French Mirages, Libyan Mig 23, USA A7 Corsair and F4 Phantom, Italian F104S Starfighters to kill/save Libyan dictator Geddafi? The strange thing is that (maybe) the Mirages and the F104s tried to save Geddafi, while the Migs and the USA plane tried to kill him. The Mirages (maybe) won the battle but shot down the DC9 while attacking a Mig23. Of course we Italian helped Geddafi telling him everything in advance so his plane changed course before reaching Ustica and French sent a whole fighter squadron from Solenzara airbase to shot down any fighter jet that could chase Geddafi plane. In every war we italians alway have been traitors...

ciao

 

this pictures across the open doors are fantastic

ciao

 

Its one messed up tragedy all right especially given the number of innocent victims involved. I do believe the French jets took out I-TIGI and one of the Libyan MiGs. But why this happened is a mystery to me.

-mick

 

This mystery was -officially!- never solved! What happened is for sure buried in the archives of the French-, US- and Italian Gouverment and will be strictly classified until 2100 or longer....

 

A couple neat close-ups.
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I have the whole series of pics by Zagari at the Bologna airfield that day, as used in the brochure.

By the way, I don't think you can say that "Italians always have been traitors" because that is too harsh. The reality is that it is Italian leaders who have made some bad deals with some bad people and found themselves having allegiances that were not good for the Italian people. The Italian people as a whole are peace-loving with a passion for beauty, creation, art & life. One just has to go to Italy and you see this clearly...

Best,
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Note in the brochure pic that there were several planes there that day, one of which could easily have been the fateful airliner. I just noticed this.

 

Thank for your picture Joe, and, above all, thank you for your words too. Yes, you are right, we are peace loving people, but with ****ty and corrupted leaders. But history tells we always switch alliance during every war, and this is a shame. There is a famous German general who said " i do not know who will win the 3rd world war, but i know who will loose it: the ones that will be allied with Italians!". I think he was right...

May be not everyone know, but Ustica disaster did more casualties after the disaster itself: Bologna railway bomb, Ramstein airshow, a lot of very strange suicides, car accidents, heart attacks to sound people and so on.

A radar operator (then "suicided") said "that evening we were very close to the 3rd world war".

But let's stop with this off topic: coming back to the Countach picture at Bologna Airport, i saw it many times and just some days ago i realized it could be Ustica DC9. Then Dgay, thatlòooks to be an Airplane expert, noticed that it was not but it could be the other shown in your picture.

Were you too at Bologna airfield that picture day, Joe?

ciao

 

your car is really mint! great!

ciao

 

August 28, 1988:
Mario Naldini and Ivo Nutarelli, Italian Air Force - the pilots who crossed Flight 870's path on June 27 over Tuscany - mid air collision during the 1988 Ramstein Air Show.

One day prior to the Ramstein Air Show Ivo Nutarelli had announced to testify in court what he knew.

Ustica and the Ramstein air show disaster:
http://www.google.de/webhp?hl=de&tab=ww#hl=de&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=Mario+Naldini+and+Ivo+Nutarelli+ustica+ramstein+-und

 

Oh no, I was 13 years old at the time! In 2004 I purchased a series of images from the archives of Zagari supplied to me by the nice Spitzley family in England who hold copyright to a lot of the Zagari images. They show the yellow Countach LP400 speeding up & down the runway, and parked in various poses in front of the DC9s for publicity images. One of the images shows the pilot, crew & stewardesses of one of the DC9s looking at the Countach in amazement as it sits parked.

 

Poor guys, pawns sacrificed in the grand political scheme I think.

 

I visited for the first Lamborghini factory in 1971, when i was 9 years old: if you were fourteen you could already be a photographer!

ciao

yes, i think that too... and 500 other people attending the event, died or wounded...

A friend of mine was there at Ramstein German Airbase to attend the airshow: fortunately he was at the opposite side of the crowded small hill where one of the three MB339 crashed. He told me he saw so many badly burned people that immediately escaped from there and went directly at home in Italy without even take the luggage at the hotel...

 

Pictures from 1988 Quattroruote magazine test of Lamborghini Countach Quattrovalvole (carbed, of course...)
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from the same 1988 Quattroruote magazine:

(please do not look just at the tits)
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Lamorghini Club Italia November 25 lunch in Modena.

This White 5000S arrived at the meeting driven by Valentino Balboni


ciao
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Very cool!

I have often wondered.... Does Valentino have a collection of personal Lamborghini's? What does he drive on a daily basis?

Mike

 

I think Valentino does not own any Lambo: that white 5000S is owned by the president of LCI.

I saw mr. Balboni at several Lamborghini Club Italia meeting but each time he drove or a LCI member car or a Lamborghini Factory demo/museum car.

ciao

 

(please do not look just at the tits)[/QUOTE]


After careful observation:

I can say with reasonable certainty that this particular model does not have the ugly North American "bumpers".

 

They're all his.

 

No, he doesn't, as far as I know he drives an Audi...


But shouldn't we come back to topic... in the last 5 pages I've hardly seen any must have picture.

 

Post some! i think page 6 and 7 Italian Gathering 2010 are fantastic and "must have". Quattroruore pictures, as i'm Italian, are all "must have" as i dreamed a lot at the time when reading those test pages.

Must have pictures are very rare: what's the n.1 Countach "must have" picture, in your opinion? for me it still is the black double winged Cannonball Countach aside the speed limit sign.

ciao

 

Here is a must-have picture, because a silver Lamborghini Countach is a must-have (although there are more silver ones now than in 1990!)
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