Countach, the ultimate supercar

Groovy baby...

Amazing, even though it's pointless! Love it.

 

Look at it this way - there is something to provide entertainment when filling up gas at the station. Which Countachs need to do often!

 

I guess it came with a special one-off multi-speaker layout?

 

The Mimran Alpine system was so extensive it required its own wiring harness!

CD, tuner, graphic equalizer, amplifiers, sub-woofers, crossover control units, multi-speakers etc. I'm confident Patrick had the best Alpine music system in a Lamborghini at the time.

But, perhaps its not surprising if we remember Lamborghini was one of Alpine's major customers, so perhaps they wanted to make a big thing of it for him.

We had the entire system restored and re-installed in the car by a Southern California classic car stereo specialist.

The nice thing about the way the factory installed the system is that it was discreetly mounted so there are no auxiliary speakers seen in the cockpit or anything like that. They built a special mounting-shelf in the front compartment to hold the control units, you can see this shelf in the Road & Track image of the car coming down the factory assembly line.

 

Wow! Must be very impressive. Obviously Alpine must have dedicated some development time on this too.

 

Gorgeous photos of Countach LP500S for sale in the U.K.
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Indeed it was mounted in the car thoughtfully, but I think Alpine Europe simply sent a guy over to the factory to assist with the installation.

He probably checked into the Grand Hotel Bologna for a week and ran up a terrific tab at the bar every evening!

All those wires & connectors...

 

I understand what you mean! Plenty of nice places around Bologna...
And, by the way, I think it is quite close to what actually happened!

 

Can not blame the guy. Probably would have done the same thing.

 

I thought they sold their black 5000s? Unless this is another one. When I spoke with Carl some time ago, the black 5000s had gone overseas.

Not sure if this is the same car?.

R

 

There are two black RHD low mileage 5000s knocking about. Both have been for sale recently. One has 5,000 miles and one more like 500 miles. Hartleys have handled both between them recently, I think.

I am BAFFLED why you would park cars in water to photograph them....

 

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For the reflection, besides it looks like it is parked on steel grates or decking.

 

I was doing some clean up in my basement today. To my surprise, I stumble on a drawing in a carboard box that my daughter did of the countach when she was very young like 6 or 8.
She never drew any cars that I kow of. I never pushed to car hobby on her either. she never really talked much about the car. I find this fascinating.

She is hospitalized out of state at this moment and hopefully get out monday so I figured I'll post post this here. I will keep this on my office wall from now on.
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Awesome, thanks for sharing, we have all our kids car-art saved.

 

if you allow me to be more accurate, it was from the Alpine Italy importer based at Milano !

 

You have proof of this?

Just curious, because I'm always looking to fill out the car's history as much as possible.

Patrick mentioned "Alpine Europe", but, that was a long time ago, memories can fade.

 

Easy to explain, my family business was AutoDistributionBelgium, as my father was found of Lamborghini, he was friend of the 4x first Belgian distributors and Lamborghini owner himself, he came to the distribution of Alpine in Belgium buying directly... so we had all Inside contacts !

Some years ago, when I start my investigations for my book, I used our old contact at Alpine Europe who confirmed me it was their subsidiary in Milano who made all the supplies + installation procedure + technical support.

 

She has good taste! I hope for a speedy recovery.

 

Very interesting.

 

Yes!! +1

 

1976 Lamborghini Countach LP400 'Periscopica' | eBay

Great colors !

 

I think this one went from Florida to Dubai for for the last few years (IIRC the owner had a yellow Muira P400 as well). I thought it may have been for sale at Tomini classics for a while:

1976 Lamborghini Countach LP400 | Tomini Classics

Healthy ROI on original purchase.

 

Why is it that gullwing does not post the vin on the countach he sells ? no vin -> no history tracking...

 

The answer is very simple if you think about it. If you want the VIN number of a car they are selling they want your contact information as a potential customer. Many dealers do it.