Countach Downdraft 1985 to 1988.5

Also a fully Evans restored blk/blk DD brought $600k a year ago. BTW I had back up offers for $100k more on white DD if the deal fell through.

 

Any one lucky enough to be an owner of a Countach in any form should be proud of their iconic car. FI or carbed it's a blessing that few get to enjoy. It's down to preference which variant you prefer, but I am quite sure any owner with an injected car does not feel deprived!

Geno

 

Yes, I think we all agree on this point.

 

happy to hear this

they are nice cars, very fun and no stress to drive-maintain

BUT they are not countach...to go back on topic, there is no car that makes me happy as the countach

 

i liked DD when most were only talking about Lp400.
to be honest i tend to associate countach more with the 400S and QV than the slim periscopio. when i think countach i think a wide car with huge rear tyres, but that is basically because i was not born when the LP400 was new.

this said, to me there is not a "ultimate" countach since there are some nice variants of this wonderfull machine. anyone be happy with the countach he owns. less than 2000 lucky people in the world can get in the seat of one of thes but i believe given many owns more than one that is more likely 1000 people!

 

Hi Maser, I have had an interesting discussion recently with a good mate who carried out suspension and wheel alignments on thousands of exotics cars here in on every thing from Ferrari to Countachs in nz, for over 30 yrs, this guy is very much a hands on guy, and was tasked with setting up the first ever computerized shock absorber system analyzer in nz, I seriously trust what this guy says, and he is of the opinion that it is not the tyres, we were discussing cars fitted with manual steering or power assisted, the standard Countach 5000 is set to 5 degrees caster, and 20 minutes camber at the front in manual mode, and his opinion is if power steering is added, is that the caster and camber need to be increased for a mid engine car, he did go into the tech reasons to do with track width , wheelbase ratio etc ,but it was two long winded and techo to post here, some manual systems are set as low as 2 or 3 degrees for front engine cars and as the engine is moved rearward to become mid engine the caster needs to increase to 5 or more degrees, if you look up the spec for a Diablo with power steer it is 6 degrees 30 mins
But his suggestion is they need to be realigned to 6 or 7 or more for a mid engine car fitted with power steer, not so good for tyre wear but powersteer needs more ,also to give the driver more feedback at higher speed, even through the power assist probably stops at about 30-40 km so it may not be the tyres just the way they are reacting to a low caster and camber settings. All these settings did get revised by Lamborghini when they changed to the modern p7 from its lp400 fitment and even suspension pickup points were seriously modified to suit the new tyres fitted to the LP400s and 5000 cars.

 

Agreed,they are addictive, as johnhough stated,down to the last nickel.

 

Great story Joe! How many of us can say we owned a Countach in period?

 

Posing for a picture?

Resting on a DD block?

Showing offhis new glasses?

 

The epitomie of cool, perfect

 

Ahhh, I can almost smell the fresh paint. The joy of participating and seeing one's car getting better and better is one of the best feelings of classic car ownership! Enjoy Joe!

 

Giancarlo Breveglieri, cool guy!