Countach LP400 Vintage Photos

I don't think so.
1120098 was finished in May 1975. I believe the roof was modified to accomodate the TV antenna, the 2x 5 slits/vents remain normal.
If there would have been a new roof panel made specificallyfor that car, the remaining Periscopio panel would have been reused way before the built of 1121030 in late 1978. Some LP400 were damaged during the production era.

Anyways, 1121030 not only has a Periscopio roof, but the whole car appears to have been a LP400 at some point.

 

Correct.
#1120001 in June 1973.

 

It is indeed #1120001 being built!
The drape covers the taillight just enough to make us confused, but it is really 0001. I have this photo dated February 19th 1973.
The open scissor door in the background is the yellow LP500 prototype, that was still used for engine development at that time.

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LP400 #1120001 and LP500
March 10th 1973
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I just acquired this for my collection...

Not only advertising the new German Lamborghini dealer "opens on 21st September 1974 in München in Odeonsplatz",
it's actually the oldest Countach LP400 advert known to date (appart from the Geneva brochure-poster featuring #1120001).

Funny thing is: the LP400 here was not #1120016 the first Countach to Germany, but #1120012 the first Countach to France...
as #11200016 was no ready yet at that time of printing the ad!
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Speaking of #1120012, that was the very first LP400 I saw when I was 8 years old.
At that time I only knew about the Countach S / 5000 S / QV ... and discovering the existence of the earlier version called "LP400" really was a shock!
20 years later, it had become my biggest passion in life.

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You wouldn't believe how many LP400 went to the Middle-East back in the days...
But for a Prince, owning the same car as his cousin's is something unacceptable!

LP400 #1120062 was completed in March 1975, originally ordered in a classic Yellow - Brown "Giallo Fly - Tabacco" color scheme, for a Saudi Prince.
But later, this particular Countach was brought back from Saudi Arabia to the Lamborghini factory to be completely repainted into something "more unique"!
Here it is, in February 1977, ready for its Royal owner to bring it home.

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Are you talking about this Raging Bull Sh*t pictured below?

Well, in the novel of Mary Shelley and the old movie made from it, Dr. Frankenstein had built his creature using many rotten limbs and organs from different dead bodies, believing it could lead to great success. It actually scared the hell out of the community, except for an old blind man and an innocent little girl.
I believe the owner of this Countach-monster is either looking for an old blind man or an innocent little girl to spend one or two millions on it.

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OK, more seriously.

I happen to know who the owner of this sad Countach is, but I'm still not sure if he really knows what it's all about.
I sincerely wish he knew some people, like myself, are ready to help!

Really, this scam is 28 years old now!

It all started from a wreck supposedly found in Sweden back in 1989. The crashed LP400 was green with brown interior and advertized as the broken and long lost Countach prototype 1120001.
It actually came badly damaged, with no engine, no transmission, no interior, no wheels, no name, no what, no who... slim shady...
Supposedly brought back to Italy by someone willing to "restore" it, that poor thing got some parts from many different Countach, just like a big jigsaw puzzle; but the masquerade suddenly stopped, well... paused, when the true LP400 #1120001 was discovered by Raymond and added to the factory Museo in 2001.

Now some people still want to resurrect that dead Countach? Fair enough. But still calling it what it has never been, some kind of an early prototype? No way!


Let me tell you a(nother?) story:

In a country far, far away, was sleeping a beautiful LP400, wearing a rather unique livery. It had slept for so long it could actually not wake up, because the Law... Nah, you can't register that thing anymore!

During the same era, another LP400, that was actually legal, had crashed. So the brilliant idea of swapping the two cars' ID plates, VIN, papers, registration, etc. came to some people's mind as the only solution to use the nice car on the road again.

Sometime later in that same kingdom where some Countach seemed to be persecuted like illegal spaceships, another -still legal- LP400 was crashed even more badly, to the point it certainly could not be repaired.
Guess what? That other previous crashed LP400, the one had given away its identity to the sleeping beauty... it could now finally be restored! Using the ID plates, VIN, papers, registration, etc. of that third car? Yes, they did!

The legend says most of the useful parts were taken away from the third car to help rebuild other cars... The engine was kept away for some other project. But someday the main corpse disappeared.

I know where the first and second Countach of this tale currently reside, but some of the owners actually don't know about the illegal matter of their cars' history!
About the third one, it happened to be a green with brown interior LP400.

And then, a badly crashed green / brown LP400 with a fake identity pops up somewhere between Sweden and Italy some time after.

Interesting...

Oh, between us... there even are two other LP400 with a rather similar story... But that's another tale to be shared later.


So, back to business: I've told many people already but I guess I shall scream it louder:

!! IF YOU OWN AN EARLY COUNTACH AND NEED HELP FOR RESTORATION AND/OR HISTORY IDENTIFICATION, THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WILLING TO HELP !!