Countach, the ultimate supercar

The picture was taken at Schloss Bensberg. And indeed the lenses were a bit dark as can be seen on other pictures taken the same weekend. I have heard that the car went through a partial restoration, so it might be an "addition" made during that process.
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Needs a red boat.
Pretty awesome shot!

 

Also note that the front bonnet is now a bit recessed with respect with the old configuration. It is now in line with the rest of the bodywork. Certainly another "addition".

 

It really puzzles (and saddens) me that they can't get it right. Would love to see it in the original red livery as well, but that's a bit too much to ask.

 

The green livery is also part of its life, so to my mind it is not a blasphemy to keep it like that.

 

This was a development car which went through diverse stages, the green is simply the last one.

I find it more disturbing that WW's famous golden Miura SV is still painted in this ugly yellow.

 

In 2000 they were light bright: http://www.countach.ch/History/LP400/1120001_5.jpg

 

It's Lamborghini.......they can do whatever they want.

 

And Lamborghini is telling us that it still is.

 

It's even simpler, there is no Money for the Museum left to restore the LP400 thoroughly nor to repaint the SV in it's original Color.
Not that lamborghini has no Money, there is simply no Budget for the musuem what is very sad.

 

I confirm your comment, there is no money devoted for the Museo.

BUT they know everything, I can confirm, having shared hours of talk !

There is no curator for the Museo.

There is one manager in charge of the Museo without any power, he is responsible if something happend in the Museo that's all.

He has to report to several managers ahead of him in hierarchy.

There is a media manager I met several time who is in charge to connect everybody.

For instance, tuning & preparing cars for journalists' request will depend from After sales.

Agenda for journalist will concern Public Relation dpt and sub Dpt Press.

Same for event to attempt, and so on...

 

This is surprising to say the least. The mueso is the legacy of the factory.

A mod to original car by the factory is interesting thou. Let's say a famous painter comes back to life and modify a master piece? what then?
I guess in this case the people who made the mod are not the same as the original designers although the factory remains (albeit 1/2 german).
I would be ok if the original players made the mod, not the following crew.

 

I was going thru files on my PC and came across this, from a couple years ago. Real life pictures of Countach caravaning is becoming a rare sight.
owners: P. P. and P.
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Not surprising to me. I don't think they cared the least bit for the old stuff. Audi bought a high end badge, and did not want anything to do with the old stuff. Remember when they got out of the parts business for anything pre Audi? Why on earth would they not make something simple like a ecm (the computer) for a Diablo?

 

I know for a fact that during the Chrysler era around year's end they destroyed many spares of old cars just so no tax would be paid to the Italian government for the stocked warehouse parts. I remember that they gave a worker a hammer and all the old gauges of the pre Diablo cars – for one week he smashed them one by one and dumped them into a waste bin. Today they are NLA. Then, when the Euro was introduced Audi changed the price list from 1,000 Italian lira to 1 Euro (basically doubling the spare parts prices overnight). I agree that Lamborghini from Chrysler onwards never did care about older cars or the owners of the older cars – they just want to sell the new models. The funny thing now is that the old ones are worth more than the brand new ones

 

That is just heart breaking to read! All those parts! The horror!

 

Sorry it's a couple of weeks (and pages in this thread) later, but I took these photos at the show.

As mentioned previously, that white Anniversary "Countach" (not shown in these photos) was definitely suspect. It immediately set off my "authenticity" red flag. I was curious how it got into the show as it clearly (to me, anyway) wasn't the real deal. Nasty crack in the windshield too...
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That might be my old white CT! If so it was cleaner when I had it and i didn't add that extra mirror on the passenger side. I only think it might be mine because I was one of the few who kept the bumper.

 

I am not saying this mod is ok because it is done by the factory. Also agreed that the original dont exist anymore which is a disturbing thought.

I am just saying that is an interesting thinking exercise because while an old original is no longer a new original has been created. In the absolute, if the original creator modified it then there is no good or bad, just a change is something very rare.

In this case it can be argued because the mods could be an oversight or a cost saving endeavor but what if such a change would have been blessed by M. Gandini?