Countach Downdraft 1985 to 1988.5

The trouble with working on the front end without disassembling everything is the components are in such tight proximity to one another.

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By comparison, the steering column on the GTO is more sturdy and has motorsports-application safety locking bolts in place from the factory

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Brave Downdraft driver stuck in traffic in Tokyo, taken from a bus, looks like an 87 or 88.

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poor quality images that I took with a low quality camera in 1991 at an auto show in Vancouver, BC, but sharing given the rarity of the blu tahiti color downdraft.

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Thank you, JLA12292.

 

Loaded & locked, on-the-move.

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Dawn's early light.

Paul S's Downdraft @ the Silverstone Classic.

Happy New Year to all!

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German "Hannover" plates, looks like a MY87

 

I love period photos, here is a QV with Frankfurt/german plates in Monaco.

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some time ago we chatted about a quattrovalvole in white (pearl?) with mint green interior
the car was destroied years ago in a terrible accident
these are the seats from that car
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From https://jalopnik.com/why-do-we-always-blur-license-plates-on-the-internet-1691298199

If I get your plate number, can I actually do anything with it?

Of course, the answer here is no, you cannot, and it's all thanks to a guy named Jim Moran, whose Wikipedia page "Controversies" section is longer than my resume. So who exactly is this Jim guy? Some crazy freak who used a plate number to harm someone? Some deranged person who stalked a woman with a plate number?

No, he was a congressman from Virginia who passed a law that banned this sort of thing.


The law is called the "Driver's Privacy Protection Act," and it was signed on September 13, 1994, by President Bill Clinton, who later remarked that he wished he hadn't signed it because "I never would've hooked up with Monica if I knew she drove a Neon."

Anyway: the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, or DPPA as it was affectionately nicknamed by the Legislative Committee for Affectionate Nicknames, prohibits the disclosure of personal information gathered by motor vehicle departments. The result is that the most information a person with your plate number could possibly get is the make and model of your vehicle. Not your name, not your address, not your date of birth, not your social security number, not whether you had feathered hair in the '80s, not whether you reach for slices of bread at restaurants but then put them back when you find out it's an end piece, etc.

So basically you have nothing to worry about when a normal person sees your license plate number, unless of course they have some sort of access to DMV records. Fortunately, this access is limited to the most upstanding members of our community – cops, lawyers, process servers, DMV employees named Alice whose fake fingernails are the size of television remotes – and that means it's pretty hard to get.


So is it possible that the person you screamed out will cut you off and track you down? Technically yes. But then it's also possible that I will wake up in the morning after a full night's sleep, look down, and discover that I have become a refrigerator.

 

The car was pearl white and destroyed in the late 90's in France after a meeting of the French Club, on the road back to UK.

 

They look like Panna, far away from mint green...

 

HLA12083
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This cars amazing!!

 

Great post.

 

That image shows how the seats are not symmetrical.

Here is the well-used interior of a French Downdraft.

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JLA12307

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Updated higher resolution of the FIA Homologation http://historicdb.fia.com/sites/default/files/car_attachment/1486711501/homologation_form_number_291_group_b.pdf

 

since i seen in person i can garantee you they are indeed light green and not panna
one more pic

 

yes, that car

 

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I saw HLA12083 a number of times circa 1988-1989 in London, and the leather interior was what I would describe as mint green.

Meanwhile, how much are the seats?

 

You can definitely see the mint green-ness of the interior in the photo in post#7939 above. The car was certainly pearl white, not just white.

 

Yes, agreed.

In fact, I thought this car's Pearlescent paint had more gold tint in the paint than others, such as Rob Capp's car, for example. There certainly were differences between the pearl white cars (all referred to a Bianco Perlato I believe) to my eyes, as I was privileged to see no less than three of them together on one occasion circa 1988.