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COUNTACH REUNION

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  1. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    My attorney will not allow me to discuss that part the case publicly, and a settlement is being worked out as we speak: I will keep the Murci and Roy will get $250k and 8 dancing girls.... ;-)

    Joe
     
  2. wbaeumer

    wbaeumer F1 Veteran
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    Steven,
    an absolutley stunning car you have!!! Very nice color combination. And 16,000 km are almost "run-in"! You have to drive it to Monterey next year. You can`t enjoy it in a transportation box! Drive it..............!

    Ciao!
    Walter
     
  3. shross

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    Your email link is disabled. You have a PM.

    Thanks
     
  4. Pagani16

    Pagani16 Formula 3

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    +1, love the color.
     
  5. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    E-mail enabled, your wife e-mailed, copy to you. let me know what happens.

    Joe
     
  6. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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  7. AZ308GTS

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    #332 AZ308GTS, Dec 8, 2006
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    I took this picture back in 1981(?). This is a scan of the photograph. I'll have to look at the negative again to be sure.....anyway. This was at a place in Scottdale, AZ called Young Motorcars. This car ended up being turbocharged, unturbochaged, bored out ect ect. I think it just recently went to Canada. Don't know the chassis number. Merry Christmas!
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  8. EMILIO

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  9. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    Turbocharged, blown-up (literally), block replaced with one from an LM002.....quite a life its had.

    Joe
     
  10. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    Thats 1120202 front-and-center when owned by ILOC founding member Karl-Heinz Ziegler...... otherwise known as "Dr. Neumann"......

    Joe
     
  11. Tony Ierardi

    Tony Ierardi Formula Junior

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    Ah...David's car.

    Hey Joe, is that car above the same color as the 4.4 Sheldon Brooks car?

    Tony
     
  12. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    Yes it is. In 1979/80, that color was still referred to as "Rosso Granada". I now have it on good authority that the clever folks at Sant Agata made another similar car (same livery, same body spec) for a Middle Eastern Prince VIP client with 2 differences: it had the smooth later wheels and had a standard 4-litre Engine.

    Joe
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  13. joe sackey

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    And here is Joe Nastasi with what Veloce Today reported as the first Countach to reach the USA (albeit aparantly not the first to be officially certified).

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  14. mcg

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  15. mcg

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    Or is this a periscopa LP400S?
     
  16. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    You leave Bobby Wallace alone with your pristine LP 400 Periscopa and this is what happens...... he really was like a mad scientist! I think he has mellowed out these days though.

    MCG, your period images are just great. THANKS for sharing.

    Joe
     
  17. 2aftercannonball

    2aftercannonball Formula Junior

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    As far as my taste in cars, I am still stuck in the 80's. I got to have flairs and a wing on a Countach, its how I fell in love with the Countach. If a top speed is needed to be reached I'll unbolt the wing, until then, "Wings on".
    Love these old photos!



    Greg
     
  18. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    They are like your children. You love them for different reasons.
    You love the LP400 for its purity, and the LP400S for its aggresiveness.

    Having both is a bit like a Porsche collector who must have both the RS and the RSR. You have one to appreciate the other I suppose.

    I must agree, the LP400S with wing (especially the original "Moody" wing without end-plates...oooooh) is one of the most purposeful-looking cars ever to have a license plate bolted to it for street use!

    Joe
     
  19. AZ308GTS

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    Yikes! I thought those big stickers in the 1/24 model kits were fakes! They really did exist.
     
  20. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    Oh, and dont forget the pseudo gold "SV" badges (classy).

    Also its worth noting the custom engine performance system.
    4-litre Lamborghini V12 + 2 Turbos = Hand Grenade. Not one of Bobby's best...

    Joe
     
  21. mcg

    mcg Formula Junior

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    Not a sticker. Airbrushed and clear coated like a chopper's gas tank.
     
  22. AZ308GTS

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    Oh, like that makes it anymore acceptable! Some things from the seventies and eighties, like large painted emblems on your car, should forever be forgotten. Keep the wings and flares though!
    Keep the pics coming "MCG" and please tell Mr. Rosa he needs to buy something Italian. Driving around in that Porsche all of the time will slowly dull his "car guy" senses. (Please note I didn't say to sell it....)
     
  23. AZ308GTS

    AZ308GTS Karting

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    Old school "Bling" baby!

    Mr. Wallace does like to push the limits when he can. That's how we learn... Besides, those things like to blow up on their own anyways!
     
  24. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    Ah, the old stereotyping at work.

    Expertly maintained and left completely un-modified, I find Lamborghini's V12s to be extremely reliable.... at least thats been my experience over the past 25 years, half-a-dozen or so Countach and a similar number of Miura SVs later.

    I see you wish a Countach in your future, and if that is indeed so, Im afraid by your definition its going to be an unhappy relationship.
    I can only imagine that Ive been extremely lucky... ;-)

    Joe
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  25. AZ308GTS

    AZ308GTS Karting

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    May the Italian car Gods throw at me what they will. I will not be unhappy.

    Let me ask you Joe, so in celebration of the "approval to go production" in 1972 you are going to organize a Countach Reunion at Concorso. The same year Concorso is Celebrating 60 years of Ferrari? I suppose you will be organizing another 35 year reunion in celebration of the first pre-production car in 2008 and then another 35 year reunion in 2009 to celebrate the year they first started to be actually sold?

    Why not try to make the reunion mean something, make it stand on it's own at Concorso and do it in 2011 as a 40th anniversary CELEBRATION? Is it because technically you missed it in 2006 (since 1971 was the year it was unveiled at Geneva)? Don't get me wrong, anytime is a good time to get a corral full of Countach together, but, wouldn't it be nice not to be in the shadows of a big Ferrari gathering? Or are you counting on the Ferrari draw?
     

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