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
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
This Periscopa has undergone a total restoration, and there is a good chance it will make Concorso 2007... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Turbocharged, blown-up (literally), block replaced with one from an LM002.....quite a life its had. Joe
Thats 1120202 front-and-center when owned by ILOC founding member Karl-Heinz Ziegler...... otherwise known as "Dr. Neumann"...... Joe
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 www.lamborghiniregsitry.com
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). Joe Image Unavailable, Please Login
Minchia Under all that hair, makeup, tatoos, jewelry, and augmentation is an LP400, no? The second Bob Wallace turbo car. There was a time when the LP400 just wasn't it. Got to have those flares and wings. Chassis number, modified for..... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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
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
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
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
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....)
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!
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 www.lamborghiniregistry.com
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?
