Official Countach Value Thread

Agree. Lp400 will always be king. But in my mind the QV DD is the best. But if I had to choose, the DD is the most desireable. Balboni agrees.

 

Thats why,my friend ,the qv with no sideskirts and that big 48valve 455 hp engine is the car to have, its your poster car with an added bonus ,Performance.

 

Are the body flairs different on the LP400S and the 5000 series Countaches?

Geno

 

I still think the first one,like the red/orange one on c/d or r/d driven in Haiti ,back in 74-75 was the coolest one,no flares-no wing-skinny tires

 

I think the power of the poster car may prevail in the future. It would be valuable to find out the age of the buyers at the current prices. If they are older then 60, then they might prefer the first of the series for future appreciation. If they are of the poster age and they are buying the early cars. Well not sure what that would mean.


I am 53 and I have the one that appeals to me 85 DD QV. I am not a fan of the early or late cars or no wing cars. My guess is the poster I have seen in my house for over 30 years may have something to do with that.

I have been watching some older cars from the 30's and up to the late 50's and they seem to going down in value. If the above theory about the age of the buyer is accurate then this may support the poster car moving up in value compared to the earliest cars.

My guess is my age group is at the very beginning of the "able to afford it group"

Either way it will be interesting to watch.

I always enjoy when seeing an older movie that has a teenager in it. When they show the room of the young man there is the Countach and sometimes Farrah as well.

 

Didn't know this. Very interesting, thanks for illustrating.

 

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I have the poster that was hanging in my room back in the late-70's.

In fact, After I bought the Countach, my wife found it rolled up in a tube in our rafters. she took it into a frame shop and had it framed for me and now and hangs out in the garage with the car.

Funny when you realize that that poster is like 35 years old!

Mike
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Geno, the bottom piece of the front wheel flair on the leading edge of the side-sills of the Lowbodys (S1 & S12) are the deeper units. From LP400S S3 on (inc LP500S & QV), the shallower units were used.

See Peter's pics.

All the rest is the same.

Hope his helps.

Best,

 

Couldn't agree more. I prefer the 88 maybe because I'm 3 yrs younger than you. Hey the math works. Always liked the 88 because it was the first CT that I saw in person.

Wonder how many CT owners also have a 3x8. Count me in. Maybe an age thing too.

 

I had a huge black 5000s on my wall in college. About 5' long back in the late 80's. I now have a smaller one titled "Decisions" with a Countach, 930 & 3x8 at my office. Regardless of which car, like your favorite team, you cheer for - I think most of us are delighted we have one. Before I bought mine, I made offers on a S2, and several injected QV's up to a 88.5. Anyone of them would have been fine.

 

Alpine actually bought a couple cars for this Ad campaign. I own the QV DD which I ubderstand is the first or second car they bought (others they photographed). I spoke to the executive that came up with the idea and the whole story is fascinating. It was the most successful poster of all time next to the Farrah poster.

 

Went to a car show yesterday. Girl asked me a question when I told her I was
going to get a license plate that read LP500S when the back of the car has a
5000S badge. I know we have gone through this here before, but one more
time if you could. What would be the super correct answer for her? She really
wants to learn.

Thanks!

 

Longtitudinale Posteriore means rear, longways mounted motor as opposed to the Miura which is transversely mounted.

 

Correct.

And the car's internal model designation was "LP 500 S", but of course, the PR people thought a badge with "5000" looked way more impressive! And they were right.

 

I remember Alpine had one of the Countaches in a tour/ad campaign at different car shows in Norway in the mid/ late 80s, (my place of birth) also rmeber talking to the lucky guy who got to drive the car around. Very impressive ,

 

when in Europe in the 80s, the cars were known only as 500S.
Only when I came to the Us did I see 5000S. I first thought people were making a common mistakes...
the correct labeling should be 500S because that is what we used in Europe and that car is from there but I am sure the avg American would thing it is a stupid European making a mistake!

 

Interesting... Is that also what the LP refers to in LP112, not "Lamborghini Progetto"?

 

Were they badged differently in Europe?

 

OK I have a 3x8 as well it was my first Ferrari and I bought it back from the guy who ended up with it when I traded it for the Countach. And at one time the Countach was parked in the garage next to a Testarossa. Miami Vice was a big factor in that decision.

Little worried our generation can be defined so easily and maybe not in a good way for all of the objects we desire. But I think I resemble that remark

 

Longitudinale Posteriore

 

Joe,

So the rear flairs are identical only the fronts are different? In the pics posted by Pete the red car is the low body design with a deeper profile, correct? What about the upper part of the two piece front flair, are they identical with just the lower section having the deeper profile?

Geno


QUOTE=joe sackey;143414889]Geno, the bottom piece of the front wheel flair on the leading edge of the side-sills of the Lowbodys (S1 & S12) are the deeper units. From LP400S S3 on (inc LP500S & QV), the shallower units were used.

See Peter's pics.

All the rest is the same.

Hope his helps.

Best,[/QUOTE]

 

Thanks

 

My opinion is the low body cars all the way up to the - 88.5's and possibly even the Anniversaries will all be similarly valued by their looks alone in another 20 some odd years. The differences in drivetrains and small idiosyncrasies becoming merely secondary. Personally I’ve always seen these cars as highly functioning art and as collectors and potential buyers age I can see the trends shifting slightly from one model to the next and back to the other within those years but as time progresses and values continually rise the cars will lose their S1 S2 DD QV 5000S monikers and simply be known as a "Countach", to all but the avid followers. Currencies and commodities ebb and flow but a Countach takes on whatever currency it pleases, universally speaks any language it pleases, and globally evokes the same feelings in us all. As a kid I went to visit a friend in Australia, being from Oklahoma I certainly didn't expect to see what I saw, maybe a surfer and a koala poster? lol... Nope almost my identical bedroom walls, the Countach posters, the F-40 the 930 slant. My father would say that some things on this earth are simply to iconic to remain American son, or British, or in our case Italian.

 

Good point ,but in the case of several very high priced cars 20 or so years older than the Countach,the later ,more developed versions bring a much higher premium,as i mentioned earlier the 300sl mercedes from 1957 is probably one of the most beautiful convertibles ever made, the car advanced from a basic cast iron sylinderblock and drum brakes to a full aluminum engine discbrake car,the last one left the factory in 63, and is priced 50% higher than the first model, i think this tecnical advancement means a lot to the checkwriter or in this day and age the person who initiate the wiretransfer, same story goes for Ferrari 275gtb /2 versus /4 But then again the Countach might be a different story,time will tell.