Countach, the ultimate supercar

Thank you for confirming the blue LP400 uncovered from the barn-find is 1120154, fully restored and now in the Middle-East!


Actually, there were two other Countach down there... The Black one being another LP400 modified to S-specs!!

This car was used in the movie 'How I Got Into College' from 1989.

The pics' quality is terrible (sorry for that) but you can clearly recognize it!

Does anybody know what happened to the car after being uncovered and its VIN?
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Long gone, the barn images are many years old.

 

Can you say what happened to them?

 

The number of LP400 that were bastardized over the years is impressive!

 

I can't unfortunately, because I wasn't party to what happened.

 

now you are really confusing me.the first photo just showed up as an lp400 turned to S and I was sold with the mirror argumentbeing 268.

Now you show the same photo with a old French licence plate www and old yellow lights as a QV just brought to Lyon? I think that 1st pict description is wrong.

 

Those indoor dusty photos taken in Abu Dhabi? I know a semi derelict body shop there which looks like that inside.

The red one almost looks like one of mine when I found it but it is not, mine never had US side marker lights. There was a really rough, dead 88.5 (also red) but I never found the owner and the photo car is not a later example.

Never seen the black one here, but the condition looks about right for the Gulf.

 

I don't understand what you mean, where's two different cars, the first photo was posted two pages ago by Lambocars666 and is about 1120268 more that twenty years ago and the second one was taken by me this week and is about a QV. I just want to speak about the garage Calderoni as they change emplacement recently and tell that it's always a good place for seeing great cars.

 

Yes, indeed!

Here are two more, spotted by a friend... a long time ago...

The white one was in Miami in 1987 and features a little TV in the dashboard (just like in 1120098)... and some kind of 'Mardikian conversion'?

The red one was in Geneva, auctioned during the autoshow back in 1987 or 1988.


If you or anybody else here could tell what happened to those cars, it would be much appreciated!

Could the red one be the mystery [GE 400XXX] on the third photo?
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nice QV for sale in Belgium, no affiliation => 1986 Lamborghini Countach - 5000 Quattrovalvole | Classic Driver Market

 

White looks like a kit car but happy to be corrected.

John

 

Nice QV Oliver,any idea on price?

 

ah! thks for the clarification. I got confused by part of the comment there.

 

Very nice. VIN? why is that never displayed in Europe for any cars?

 

Roy, is that your old car?

If so, Here it was back in 2007 at our Italian Concours show at the Des Moines Marina.

http://youtu.be/vg-n2cib7U0

Mike

 

I wonder why the rear lights are changed, was it involved in a crash?

 

It's was for sure repainted, there isn't a single Stone chip in the lower rear Fender flare which is impossible with 36t Km.

 

Correct.

Note missing front fender (small square Carello) side-turn blinker light.

 

The car came from the USA, its one of the so-called Nastasi downdraft cars, so it had the rear USA-version panel, which was removed when it was repainted.

Good eye, those are LP400 reflectors.

 

The car is a different one, it belongs to a Danish enthusiast, and has been in Europe since the late 90s.

 

Wing-size comparo
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Joe,please explain,did all us qv s have lp 400 reflectors behind the us tail light ornament?
By the way,your wing comparo picture probably ended all future arguments regarding QV versus Anni ,in the look department, makes you wonder why it drifted away from its original fantastic design.

 

The reflectors are a DOT/TUV mandate requirement fir the various transportation authorities of the era.

As regards looks, its all purely subjective, there is no final word, no correct way, no "best".

 

I wonder if Pagani designed the 25th with the wing in mind? The wing looks awkward a lot of the time to my eyes. It'd look better mounted on slightly shorter uprights with more angle of attack or without it completely I think. Otherwise, from that angle at least, the 25th looks like a real beast!

 

the car on the right is an S with the big wing