Countach Downdraft 1985 to 1988.5

Wow, very interesting! The show was in September 1985 and our car was deliver in November 1985... I wonder...

 

GLA12997 was delivered on may 14th 1986.

 

Great that another has come to the US (so many have left)..
Is the tailcone slit/Middle East market a solid theory or just a “most often” “usually” type of thing? (because Lamborghini!)
Mangs’ car:
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This is an important remark but since it is not DD specific, I did not want to spoil that thread with it. Joe has already mentioned many cars coming from Europe.
I started a new one at the right place about a possible giant sucking sound of classic exotics leaving Europe. May be we will have a Countachless Europe soon?
It would be interesting to put any perpective you may have ove there.
https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/are-euro-goverments-pushing-for-the-death-of-large-displacemwent-pertol-cars.590148/

 

I will check that out.. last recession in the US it seemed half of ours left for Japan. Some DDs included.

 

What is this buttons function?


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It is a brake warning reset button.

 

I thought it was for low brake fluid?

 

Yep, if your brake fluid is low, this illuminates. Only purpose in pushing it is to ensure the bulb isn’t burned out (sort of test feature so to speak).

Mike

 

Thank you all for the responses

 

Nice pic, Joe. Whoever the photographer was, he captured that power dome perfectly.

 

An older post for sure, but it was worth affirming this earlier statement from Joe.

 

Lemacc or Joe,

Do you think the factory would have records if the Frankfurt Motorshow car was GLA12889 or GLA12914? The Rosso Speciale cars that would have been produced at the end of 1985.

 

None of these two cars were the 1985 Frankfurt Motorshow car which was sold in Germany after the show.

 

Hi John,
Lemacc = Leo I can just tell you from own experience. Thru some special contacts at factory i got a built sheet some years ago, before even Polo Storico existed. This document includes datas like fabrication date, color combination, engine-, gear-, diff- number, delivery date, delivery to which dealership and documented services at certified Lamborghini dealerships. In this document it was also stated, that my particular Diablo Roadster was a show car at Geneva Motorshow and had a special leather /interior. I don´t know how accurate the factory handled these datas in the 80s. But to answer your question short, it could be possible that they documented this information too.

 

Thank you! Do you know which chassis this was?

 

No, unfortunately I can't find it now, but probably I recorded it somewhere. IIRC, it was an earlier car than the two that you mentioned. I knew the first owner who passed away last year. He told me that he later sold the car in Germany when the prices were high. This must have been ca. in 1990. He did not know what happened to the car later. He saw it once again some years after selling it, during a Lamborghini meeting, and then never saw the car again. He regretted to have sold the car. I personally saw the car in 1985 during Frankfurt Motorshow and found the colour amazing, but never again saw the car. I would really like to know what happened with it. Phantastic car, and with all these stories, maybe my favourite Quattrovalvole (here in Europe we do not say "Downdraft").