Countach Downdraft 1985 to 1988.5

Joe, do you know when this advert was from? Ahhh those prices. Ha!
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early to mid 90's iirc

 

Red candy (DD )or Rosso Speciale in Sweden ( gotland) late 80 s

 

Hi, Asher was the Rod Stewart car, Strudwick was J435, another white 88. F926OYR was new to balmoral coal, whoever they were!

 

Black car is reg E39LMR - it was a full US spec car converted to European spec. Went to many of the LCUK events. We did know the chassis number...anyone? Found it HLA12091.

I have the original of that Modena Cars ad - it was in Classic and Sportscar, but I don't have the date anywhere I'm afraid.

 

Do you mean this one?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/47492327@N08/4348803882/

 

My friend spendt a few weeks on Gottland every sommer. In the late 80s. Remember looking at pictures of a red candy. Countach. He got ti know the owner at the time. And to my best recolection told him he just got the car delivered in the red candy from the factory. Reason why aDD would be most likely. Almost traded my 328 gts for a DD at Lasse Jønnson in Karlstad at the time. Was very Countach motivated, reason why i remember anything Countach related. Trade never happened. Ironic thing is the car i ended up with 20 years later is the same color combo as Lasses
Car.

 

New jersey, the land of traffic studies... the land of all weird studies indeed...It the car another exercise in sales? (those > 6 years will indeed understand)

 

I found this pic whilst looking for something else

"F18MBO" photos Lamborghini Countach. Great Britain

Something about it is ringing alarm bells, but im not sure if that's just because of the odd surrounds around the indicator covers and the fact that on an F plate I'd also expect it to be an 88.5 (though our UK DVLA has been known to make mistakes, or cars don't immediately get registered etc)

 

as i said something didn't ring true, but what were the giveaways ?

as an aside in the UK a kit/replica usually wears a a Q plate, although if enough of the original donor survives (or you find a nice testing centre) then the original plate can go on it - and then be swapped for what is clearly a private plate in the pic. BUT you cant put a newer plate on than the original, so the donor for this had to be a car built no later than 1988

 

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i knew something wasnt right, but couldnt place it
doesnt help that i was under the impression that UK kits were all basically the right shape as a mould was taken from one of the hire countachs.

thanks, and back on with the DD thread

 

YOu see immediately the frames around the plexi cover for the side indicator, they are about double the size.
The rest of the body doesn't look bad.

 

While there may be more than one car in this colour, I have heard 5 between DD AND FI, the colour was created at the request of the first owners of my car.
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You are correct indeed. Second of my photos in a row you have reposted in a row, for which thank you very much - the Rod Stewart 88 and this photo of this pearl QV are both mine. Obviously I retain copyright on all my photos, but I do prefer it if people say when they are using my photos...