The Hyman car above is no longer on their website. Sold fairly quickly, asking price 89500 Speaking of Jalpas for sale, the December 22 issue of Auto Week has a classified with a low mile 1988 Jalpa, described as impeccable, black on black (asking price is $225000 so I would think it should be impeccable!)
still ridicolous, I watch the V8 market sind 1999, there are as double as much cars for sale than the market really buys, it's a complete different market than the V12.
still Lambo indeed... because people cannot afford the V12, they will focus on the V8, regular storyboard
but not 225K... for half the Price you can restore any Jalpa to new condition, don't forget, compared to a CT it was produced like a mass production car based on the Tools of the Urraco.
Raymond, are you loosing the sense of relativity ? Can we considered the Jalpa produced at 420 units over 6 years of production as "mass production" ? it means an average of 70 units/year... Countach was produced at 1975 units during 16 years, it means an average of 123 units/year... and the poor Urraco was produced at 791 units over 7 years, at an average of 113 units/years, still below the Countach figures. Please don't argue it is the same tools as the Jalpa, because it is not true. Only the chassis/frame was similar, produced by a contractor, not the rest of the car.
I haven't lost anything, just the way the Jalpa was built is much less complicate than the tubular Frame of the Countach. Don't Forget Bertone built all the V8's based on the Urraco design and delivered them painted to Lamborghini. When you have once dismantled a Jalpa you will see it being much simpler to restore than any V12 built in St.agata.
Is this not the car that was at Hymann. It's even the same picture with the white curtain and concrete floor!
Good pick up! 77500 earlier this year to 225k! On a different topic, I have noticed several Jalpas with black paint over the front of the rear wheel arches... http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/attachments/lamborghinichat-com-sponsored-lamborghini-houston/1046037d1258535566-jalpa-thread-paltrinieri_1.jpg http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/attachments/lamborghinichat-com-sponsored-lamborghini-houston/1973135d1414421189-jalpa-thread-1985-lamborghini-jalpa-p350-front.jpg did they ever have this from the factory, or just something owners have added later?
mine had something like this at an earlier point in its life. glad it isnt like that anymore. Image Unavailable, Please Login
1. the value of a car has nothing to do with its restoration costs, complication building or building costs... 2. that's what I mentionned, a contractor - Bertone - produced them, like it was also for the Espada & Miura... so considering for instance the value of a Miura - higher than a Countach - I still believe your argument is not appropriate, and these people may ask USD 225,000 for that Jalpa doesn't make me think they are foolish, just over the market average and I would not pay that price, but who knows how the market will go in 2015 ?
So how do you explain pictures in Moorland's book pages 24/25 taken at the factory in April 1984 of five Jalpas in primer and one being painted ?
I visited the factory regularly in the 1980s, I can assure you that truckloads of "finished" Jalpas arrived from the Bertone plant to St. Agata without mechanicals or interiors. Certainly some were painted in house - especially for book pictures or bus tours - it is likely that 98% arrived already painted. Raymond is correct and I agree with his comments in this thread. In the 80's customers would even send cars back to the factory for a re-paint or color change.
The new section at the rear of the factory for preparation and painting of bodies was opened at the end of August 1985. Presumably this entire facility was needed to cope with the 1250 QVs and 25ths "mass produced" from 1985 to 1990!
It is a stick-on plastic thing against paint chips, which mine also has: http://www.400gt.com/vlg/jalpa7/DSC_0308.JPG Laust
Jalpa at 225k makes 0 sense... You can buy most Diablo variants for less Owned both and there is no comparison. Diablo is much much faster, v12, awesome looking. All of this while still being an old rare hand built Lamborghini. I can understand a jalpa being worth more than a gallardo or even as much as some murcielago. ..but not more than a Diablo. ..
Having owned these to me was, is and will always be : Countach > Diablo > jalpa And there are too many interesting cars under 225k $ i would purchase over a jalpa: 512 tr, pantera gts-gt5, Maserati bora, etc...
