Countach, the ultimate supercar

These pictures make me happy and sad at the same time.
Sad - because I wasn't able to buy it in 2000 when I found her
Happy - because it's back home, which was initiated by me

 

To the left and right is what I love and hate about vintage and new supercars. The size.

Sad to see how Absolutely bloated they've become.

 

The one that got away, i can feel your pain.but,as you said, its back home,and doing well.

 

a prototype, not THE prototype

just a shame they haven't corrected the details to put it back to how it should look.
NACA Ducts in body colour
Front bumper in silver
oh and change that horrible colour back to the original red.

 

I had the same exact thought. Some of the new exotics feel like 7 Series Bimmers. Though I wouldn't mind not hitting my head on most everyone of my 70s cars (and I'm only 5'10"), the current cars are far larger.

 

And the interior is black!

 

wonderful pics!

 

ok, now that sounds intriguing

 

Since #1120001 was a evolving prototype it should stay it the latest state of development.

And yes, it was the prototype for the LP400 series.

 

Some pictures a friend took when we visited them on sunday, not cleaned at all and even worse it began to rain 3 hours later.

Haven't seen them yet because flickr is blocked in office...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/andip66/

 

in red!
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looks amazing - so much better than the green

 

I always thought it'd look good in the same shade of green as the Carabo

 

Lets have a vote. GREEN

 

Interesting how the rear panel transition to the reflectors where angeled outward where th line would meet the fender, on the production cars this transition is close to vertical,the top end of the reflector extends furter in towards the centre of the car,

 

the members of this forum are usually fans of reverting cars to the colour they were originally produced in.

In this case that is Red with a silver bumper and Black interior

 

shure.

 

This is a prototype. For this car, TWO original liveries exist. Rosso/nero and verde/naturale. Both are looking spectacular.

You are missing the main point. It is the interior which POSSIBLY should be changed to original specs. Because now, incorrect seats in an incorrect colour are installed in the car, maybe being a part of the development process that this car underwent. However, these seats were installed in the car long time ago (1975 could be the year), thus the current interior also might be called "original" (supporting Raymond's position).

 

typical Lamborghini trick so people assumed more cars had been built than actually existed.
and the red came first and just looks so much nicer.

I am biased though, I dont like green cars - it's not a good colour for a car and it's also considered an unlucky colour

weren't these seats installed so they could sell it on to a customer - hence have no real bearing on its prototype days ????

 

Two liveries for two different car shows.

Green is super for the Countach LP400, especially green metallic (see 1120012 and, obviously, 1120010, too).

The car was not simply sold to an unkown customer. The car was given to Mr. Leimer. Possibly Mr. Leimer wanted the production seats and an interior in tabacco. Yes, probably the production seats in #1120001 have nothing to do with the prototype days of that car. You are right here, I think.

 

Very interesting front wiper setup on this car.

 

i may be wrong - but afaik it was red whilst it was a prototype (various pics of Bob driving it in red), and then was painted green later for a later show when it effectively ceased being a prototype and was being shown as effectively a production car (using the factory trick of people believing a different colour car was a different car altogether)



either way its a very interesting car - I just feel if its being displayed as the lp400 prototype then red is how it spent most of that development period with the added bonus of looking better in red too.


ps. has anyone got any pictures of Bob Wallace driving this car when it was green ?

 

you can see it in all 3 of these pictures too.

http://www.countach.ch/History/LP400/1120001_13.jpg

http://www.countach.ch/History/LP400/LP400_3.jpg

this one shows the unique interior
http://www.countach.ch/History/LP400/LP400_4.jpg