For the USA cars, Paul Goddard will make you a nice unit. His contact is: Paul Goddard QuickSilver Exhausts Ltd 7 Towergate Business Centre Coopers Place Wormley GU8 5SZ United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1428 687722 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: QuickSilver Exhaust Systems However its worth notig that the exhaust grille dimensions for the USA cars are thought to be slightly different from those of an Eu/ROW car. See image below. I can only confirm measurements off the USA cars so if anyone wants to chime in with Eu/ROW car #s that will be good too. This template allows the unit to be made so that the tips are central within the valance apertures and extrude properly at the rear. Image Unavailable, Please Login
A good number of Eu cars have adopted this system in recent years. FWIW, I have NO affiliation with Quicksliver, none whatsoever, so any questions, please contact Paul directly, just sharing the wealth of useful information as as resource here. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not to derail the thread yet again, but, since we bring up Senna... "A couple years later three-time World Champion frustrated by a not so competitive car has to make a decision. As a Ford Cosworth customer team, versus Benetton and Schumacher’s works Ford car, Senna and McLaren still won five races, to Schumacher’s one. The champion though was Alain Prost – Senna’s arch-rival. Frustrated at being beaten by Prost, and not being Ford’s works team, McLaren looked elsewhere, and mid-1993 a deal was struck with Chrysler which then owned Lamborghini. There was a lot of frustration all around. McLaren adapted an MP4/8 chassis to house the tiny V12 engine, and in September 1993, behind closed doors, they tested a totally unliveried car with Lamborghini power. The Monday after that year’s Portuguese Grand Prix, McLaren again tested the Chrysler-Lamborghini car, and Senna was so impressed he asked Ron Dennis, then team principal, if he could race it in the final race at Japan. The answer was “no”. This was the day after Alain Prost announced his retirement. McLaren’s then test driver Mika Hakkinen, who that Estoril weekend replaced Michael Andretti for the races, had tested the Lamborghini car too at Silverstone, and was over a second faster in it than with the Cosworth version. The answer was still “no”. Senna, who won the final two races after Estoril in Japan and Australia, and had started the year on a race-by-race contract, had had enough, and despite being tempted by America and CART, the Brazilian signed for Williams for 1994 to replace Prost. McLaren signed with Peugeot, and not Chrysler-Lamborghini, which did not go down well with the American/Italian companies as they had made a special effort to provide McLaren with a smaller, lighter engine. Chrysler PR director Tom Kowaleski said: “We are disappointed to say the least. We have worked very hard in the last few months, including a very intense period recently putting together a team to interface with McLaren and TAG Electronics. The car was very quick and Ayrton Senna said some encouraging things about it. There was a strong agreement to proceed together for the future. The decision may say something about F1. It’s no secret that the marque must look at its costs, and we wanted to introduce our lean and efficient approach to it.” Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yes, several 25ths had steering wheels color-coded by the factory with some aspect of the interior. Ive seen rims in red, & blue, besides black. For example, here is ZA9C005A0KLA12820's factory application, blue steering with blue dash & blue shift knob. FWIW it has blue carpets too, all contrasting the cream leather. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here is another 25th at Colin Clarke's place showing a red color-coded steering wheel. Conversely, it has a non color-coded pair of door mirrors! UK-registered. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This 25th has a few old-skool features, the most prominent of which are the Vitaloni "Flag" mirrors from the LP400S era. Also, if you look closely, the owner has chosen to forgo the color-coded silicone in favor contrasting black -colored application around wheel arches etc. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I must confess to a bad habit of quickly skimming thru posts during the week and not reading them properly! My fault, and I apologize for that. I only read the inventory part of your question and replied to that earlier. But your comment about this thread being "a way to get prices to rise on this model" has me smiling. I routinely do one-variant dedicated threads simply to share the info I have gathered on that variant, but if posting some historical, technical and image data on a particular variant will cause it's market value to exponentially increase, then I have stumbled across the world's best marketing ploy and I'd better double-up my efforts to test its true potential! I like ALL variants of the Countach because of my broad ownership history of them all, Ive started other Countach threads, and could care less if this thread actually cause 25th values to go down. Meanwhile, I'm sure you enjoy this thread as your presence here shows, and as (judging by its views) do many others. Its nothing more than an enthusiast's thread, and I'm happy to push it along for now whilst I divest whats accumulated in my archives. I'm well known for purging what Ive accumulated and sharing it with the community in the form of a nice thread, or, even a book or two - now there is an idea, I bet if a I published a 25th book, values will triple. I'm on it. Sarcasm & mild humor over - the market is famous for ignoring the obvious and being illogical. The market is the market and as broad as the internet has made it, no one entity or group of entities can influence it significantly. Maybe a little, but if a thread is a way to do it successfully, I'd better buy half-a-dozen 25ths to go along with this thread. You can buy that number for the price of one 288 GTO that I do have in inventory, and if your theory is correct, by the time this thread slows down I might have 2 288 GTOs?. Moving along, here is a pic showing that the old-skool 25th compares stunningly to the nouveau Aventador. I know a man who already has both as the only 2 Lamborghinis he owns.. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I forgot to give Scott's amazing photography credit for the post of the 25th with "Flag" mirrors, but his depiction of this Nero USA 25th is even more stunning. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A couple more of the same car by Scott Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
"No honey, its a Ferrari, no its a De Tomaso, not a Lamborghini, not a Ferrari, yes its a De Tomaso for sure..." [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_7rsNDt-8]lamborghini Countach 25° anniversary - YouTube[/ame]
Joe, Were those pictures of the black 25th taken this year at the Ault Park Concours here in cincy? If so i watched that guy park that car. It was a man and his daughter and he was having trouble locking the car (something about trying to lock it and it would pop the bonnet or something silly like that.) Regardless I tried to chat cars with him and he was either too busy dealing with teh nuaces of that car or he just didnt quite have the understanding of Countaches this particular thread has bestowed upon me through my daily readings....
Perhaps the central locking was going haywire? Yes it was taken at last year's Ault Park event by Scott. I think this is the same car below. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Apparently, Pirelli did a batch of PZeros date-coded for 2012, new supply from the factory in Turkey, an owner tells me. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sounds like operator error since the bonnet and everything but the doors are operated by manual cables. -mick
Joe, Is there any difference between the rear of a USA Anniversary vs. a Euro Anniversary. Some of the posts here make reference to sales of Euro Anniversary Cars but isn't that really comparing apples to oranges since the Euro Anniversary has weber carbs vs. F.I. USA versions? Frank
Thanks for that confirmation, I know these folks have been helpful in the past 345/35ZR15 Pirelli P-Zero Asimmetrico Image Unavailable, Please Login
There is no difference to the design of the rear of a USA 25th versus that of an Eu/ROW car. The only difference is the engine hood/cover design of the fuel-injected cars versus the carb cars, as is evident in this thread. This thread is not a market or sales-focused thread, its more of an enthusiast's thread. However, sales of the cars in different markets worldwide is always relevant, even if you are comparing a carb car to a fuelie car. For example, in previous years it paid a European with a strong Euro to come to the USA and buy a fuelie car and take it back to Europe. And lots of them did. Of note is the fact that fuelie cars when sold in Europe bring as much as carb cars do over there, I know this first-hand.
Nice Nero/Rosso Italian-registered car that went to a new home via auction last year Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
