Countach, the ultimate supercar

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Emilio, do you have any more photos of the blue with the gold bravo's? That is pretty much Countach perfection!

 

Also important, what's the VIN of the blue Beauty.

 

1121016, Raymond

1978 LP400S car....the rarest and nicest model year countach

 

Mike
i agree: serie uno in blue with gold wheels is just WOW!

no, sorry, no more pics

but there are some posted by Joe early in this thread (page 10 or so)

 

New to Steve Dypvik it used to live near me till circa 1995...

 

Countach resto in Sweden possibly?

http://www.klassiekerrally.nl/index.php?page=lambo-countach

 

Any information on this car ?

http://www.bobileff.com/ferrari_frame.html?85_500sred_main.htm

Bobileff Motorcar Company

1985 Lamborghini Countach 5000 S

#ZA9C00500FLA12795

Red with tan interior, US Version car, CD Player, good maintenance records,
Southern California car for many years. Books, tools and with custom car cover.

21,241 km's

$99,000.00

Question : How hard is it to remove the US bumpers ?

Thanks

Tom Geer in Tennessee

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The web site is in the Netherlands, so...

 

Looks like a nice car. Everyone says the bumpers are a Pain except for the one guy I've actually met that had it done. $2500, write a check and pick up the car a week later, so according to him it was no sweat.LOL It needs to be done to all of them if you ever want it to look right, so just have bobileff do it.
Good luck.

 

Question : How hard is it to remove the US bumpers ?

Thanks

Tom Geer in Tennessee

Tom, I would keep the bumpers and replace the injection with the original side draft carbs, air filter boxes and intake manifolds first.

The Countach was the last carbed Lamborghini (and the first injected one too) the sound of a carbed countach with a sport exhaust has few equals ... the Miura is one of the few that sound even better!

Alex

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You make a good point but it makes more sense to pass this one up and find one with those features already. That early fuel injection and those ugly bumpers are big losers and by the time you source the parts and make it right, you will have "busted the budget".

 

The Cannonball Countach is back the way it was!

Image by Tom Mc Crary.
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Amazing, I suppose it costed less than the thought 100K to restore it to this glory...

 

Well if everything isn't intact underneath the U.S. bumpers, you can pretty much double that amount to have it done right, and that's for the rear conversion only! I should know. But it looks way better when it's done in my opinion. Pics of mine to follow soon as I finally just bought a new computer!

 

I agree with your thoughts on the cost of converting the injected car to a carbed car with a sport exhaust. I don't think I could afford the cost and I'm not so sure it would pass emissions in my state (California). But at least mine now has the more desired Euro look without the wing and it runs well as is.

 

Tony is a magician.

 

At Goodwood almost 20 years ago, before the track was renovated...
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And that is yours truly, lamps ablaze in my 1985 carbed QV registered "C 169 EYE" almost 2 decades ago...

I can claim to be one of the few people to have performed a 360 degree spin at St Marys's corner and recover without stalling or crashing to continue back to the pits as if nothing had happened!!

Yeah, we used to drive 'em...
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hey Joe,

NICE PICS!!!

was the S1 Mike Pullen's car? any close up of the cars at the event?

 

Yes, the maroon Series 1 was Mike Pullen, the red QV with wing was Vic Sawyer, the red QV with German plates was Stephane Ratel, and the red QV with UK plates was me.

 

Wrong distributor for a LP400, up to the LP5000S they used twin distributors with contacts not the then up to date MM Setup.
Taking the torque curve there will not by much more hp, you could turn the engine up to 10k rpm and will get higher number, but this is useless since the torque is dropping down.

BTW my gearbox is coming together soon
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I was going to say the same thing about the distributor however Raymond beat me too it.

I am curious on what size carburetors are on the engine are they the 45DCOE's or the smaller ones?

If they are the smaller ones you could replace them with the larger 45's and get a little more HP out of the engine.

Sincerely Vic

PS: It looks like your cam cover end plates are upside down. Better change them before installing the engine in the car.

 

365hp is good for a 4 liter engine (even more since it looks on stock muffler)

if the car has to be fine tuned it will give more than the claimed 375 (and we all know few 4000 cars really had 375 from factory)

 

The single distributor may be historically incorrect but if it is the breakerless style used on the LP5000 it can be considered an upgrade.

 

Yes it is good. However I know the 4 liter engines also had smaller and large carburetor options.

If the engine has the smaller carbs the HP will be lower than if the larger 45's are in place. Vic