COUNTACH REUNION

In basic blue collar terms, you had the Countach family edition, with all the extra room and luxury items. lol.

 

We are really going to need to see drawings to bring this away from pure annecdote.

 

Do they use the same windshield?

 

Yes, the glass seemed to be all the same.

We measured an anniversary vs our lowbody, the difference seemed to be in the door/body structure. The rocker panels seemed to be the same, but difficult to tell due to all the straking on the anniversary.

 

I'll go measure right now, if someone wants to measure a non lowbody, we will have a difinitive answer soon

 

pics of measurements 1979 series 1 lowbody
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I have taken the measurements as per your photos and have come up with the following measurements. The numbers 1-5 are as per your photos.

Measurements are from my 1987 QV FI

1) interior door near window winder top of frame to bottom of frame
your car 14 1/4".......................87 QV 15"

2) interior of the door at the wide end, top of frame to bottom of frame
your car 15 3/4".......................87 QV 17 1/2"

3)outside of door opening from the lower body line to top of door opening
your car 17 1/4".......................87 QV 18 3/4"

4) top of the body line to the top of the opening for the door
your car 19 1/4".......................87 QV 19 1/4"

5) outside of door at the back end from the top of body line to the bottom
your car 16"............................87 QV 19"

6) outside of the front of the door from bottom of door to body line
your car 15" ...........................87 QV 15 3/4"

(I will qualify both your measurements and mine as +/- 1/4 inch to allow for slight differences in measuring techniques )

So I guess there really is a difference in some of the dimensions between the two cars.

COOL!!!!!!!!!

 

Wow!!
big difference!

 

nice one.
what we dont know though is that is this down to an actual difference in the shell/roofline dimensions, or is it a revised door after the floor was reputedly lowered ?


id love to know the height from lowest chassis tube to the roofline
not the easiest to measure tho i suspect, unless you measure roof height from the floor on both cars (a) and then find the lowest struture underneath and measure how far off the floor it is (b) - then subtract b from a

 

Lamborghini cooled down the beast.



Thanks Dee and Darren !!!!!!

 

There seems to be a lot of that going around.

 

I think its the customers who buy countach got a fatter belly... I just see the car being adjusted to them... Thats Lamborghini's way of going after the market ...lol

 

Joe, you forgot the most important Lambo that will be auctioned at the Russo and Steele auction in Monterey - my old Islero, 6198. LOL
http://www.russoandsteele.com/collector_car/1969_lamborghini_islero/7130.html

 

hey roy, what are u waiting for posting the u.k document of registration linking the car to mr. khassoghi ? joe sackey has a secret buyer for my car maybe at 600 k !!!!!!!!!!!!!! if it aint adnan's car, then 150k . good thing i got you that document !

joe,stop searching for the yellow lp, it is in my showroom in canada.

also, the pink sv miura needing restoration....it aint parked on the street any longer, IT HAS MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION !

talk to roy,if you have a buyer , let him "show me the money" .....

 

I was waiting till it got closer to the Auction...like NIGHT of Auction...then this car will SKY ROCKET in price...IMO...with all its history behind it!!

But OK, I will give a little TASTE latter today when I get to the office..I have to PULL them out of the Safe...the ORGINALS that is.

More to come...AND OF course orginals INCLUDED in the sale of the car to the correct buyer!!

 

Here we go.............
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whats so important about this khashoggi (note the spelling) guy anyways
not exactly a celebrity is he.
no hes a merchant of death - sure i bet ppl must be lining the streets with a chance to buy his old car.

praps Saddam had one too, or Osama bin Laden or maybe the Ayatollah Khomeini hey you could hype them up and sell them at inflated prices, now theres an idea - lol still at least the public have heard of those ppl i mentioned.

i just hope the car goes back to the uk or other rhd country and that ppl arent convinced to pay over the odds becuase of a link to an arms dealer

oh an steve whats with the continual bashing of joe sackey ?
he seems to me a genuine guy with a real passion for the cars and someone who is happy to help ppl out and post up what he knows
seems to be more than can be said for "other people"

 

no one here bashing joe.... he is the one that usually comes out bashing !

simply trying to help him save on long distance phone calls to the middle east as until very recently,he was still trying to locate this lp400...

thanks joe for the advice...i for one dont give a hoot about khassoghi ....but ,he is or was a celebrity that entertained the worlds richest and all the california stars....on his boat etc... i believe oil was his main $$..not arms... but who cares..if he ever sold arms in the middle east, i am sure some of them landed in my country (israel)..therefore ,i am the last to admire..but it is good documentation as far as ownership.. that is all... who cares about the whole story around the car...the car is an lp400 and that is what matters....
all suspension bushings except for 2 bushings which are not avail. for now were replaced.... i mean all !
engine support bushings as well..
carbs fully rebuilt...
tune up,caps,rotors,fluids...
body and paint were very nice and i will not touch other than detail and polish it..
interior is all original...show very well... the dash mouse hair is the down side to this car as it aint in the best of shapes but it is original and can get replaced quite easily and for a small sum $$ . the brown mouse hair needed to come for italy and i am out of time to do it....

it is not a show car but a nice/to maybe very nice driver...survivor condition ,original i would call it .