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  1. Lemacc

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  2. joe sackey

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    #26602 joe sackey, Jan 29, 2020
    Sure, I also purchased Bianco Perlato/Rosso LP500S ELA12730 from Joe Nastasi and resold it to my client.
     
  3. joe sackey

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    #26603 joe sackey, Jan 29, 2020
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    A Countach Dream Come True

    Here is Lance B in 1976 sitting in a Countach LP400 in his driveway.

    44 years later the good doctor has finally made a childhood dream come true.

    This is one of the things that keeps me doing what I do.

    Details to follow...

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    #26604 Lemacc, Jan 29, 2020
    Nice story! Difficult to identify the colour on this photo
     
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    #26605 joe sackey, Jan 29, 2020
    Light metallic blue with dark blue interior.
     
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    #26607 Rossocorsa1, Jan 29, 2020
    What a sight that must have been, rolling along with a bunch of everyday utilitarian’s.
     
  8. Lambocars666

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    #26608 Lambocars666, Jan 29, 2020
    Of course I can guess which car, but I can't wait to read the complete story and details!!!
     
  9. joe sackey

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    #26609 joe sackey, Jan 29, 2020
    He actually purchased another blue Countach, not the one he was pictured sitting in way back in 1976, needless to say he's very excited.
     
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    #26610 Lambocars666, Jan 30, 2020
    Do you know where that photo of young Lance and the LP400 was taken?
    Pasadena? Beverly Hills? New York?
     
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    #26611 joe sackey, Jan 30, 2020
    Southern California, I'll ask him exactly where.
     
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    #26612 Robert W, Feb 1, 2020
    Hi, thanks for posting this, apologies and I will follow this guidance in future.

    You and others with photos on here should should look on ebay - a ton of your photos have been reproduced and sold.

    See here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Portman-Lamborghini-Countach-Jalpa-etc-Photographs-/312926315840?hash=item48dbdca540%3Ag%3A58AAAOSwh-Jd6P1E&nma=true&si=an%252BC6%252BygoAT3IlbbNPK9JXQKt%252Fo%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

    If you go into ebay.co.uk, search for "Portman Lamborghini" and in "completed listings", there is a seller called "multitude_sales" who has sold many of your photos (and mine) and snapper seven's

    Robert
     
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    #26613 joe sackey, Feb 1, 2020
    Photos that I have taken over 30 years and those of my professional photographer wife many of which we've used for publication of my Miura book and 288 GTO book are copied reproduced and sold all over the world.

    IMO even if you make copyright enforcement a full-time-job you can't stop all reproduction, at this point I take the position that I'm flattered that someone wants to use my photos.
     
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    #26615 raymondQV, Feb 1, 2020
    Very nice and very rare in this Color, which vin is this?
     
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    #26616 joe sackey, Feb 1, 2020
    I sent it to you via email, meanwhile with the new owner's permission I'll share more details of the car when it arrives in California.
     
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    #26617 joe sackey, Feb 1, 2020
    I asked just for you:

    The image was actually taken local to me in the Dover Shores neighborhood of Newport Beach, California, at LP400 owner Jim Marino's house - so not in his own driveway after all.

    Marino (full name Salvatore Onofrio James), owned Jim Marino Motorcars which dealt in Ferraris on PCH by the Balboa Bay Club in the 1970s.

    FWIW Marino also owned a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Alhambra, a Volkswagen dealership in Huntington Beach, a Mazda dealership in Buena Park, a Pontiac & Honda dealership in Fullerton, and a Mitsubishi dealership in Orange County.

    He also owned The Crow's Nest boat brokerage in Newport Beach.
     
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    #26618 Lambocars666, Feb 1, 2020
    Thanks a lot, Joe! You know my passion for the LP400, and those precisions are truly appreciated!
    I believe this LP400 to be #1120152, painted "Azzurro Dino Metallizzato" a rare Ferrari light blue shade.
    Unless it was actually silver? Sure it's light blue and not Argento Metallizzato?
     
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    #26619 joe sackey, Feb 2, 2020
    My pleasure.

    Yes, I am told it is light metallic blue, therefore it's Azzuro Dino Metallizzato with a dark blue interior, Jim Marino was a man of impeccable taste.
     
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    #26620 raymondQV, Feb 2, 2020
    Thanks Joe, somehow I saw this VIN recently popping up quite often.
    As expected not a swiss car but my favorite Color from the factory range together with Tahiti.

    My favorite collection would be a yellow LP400, a Tahiti S1 like 1096, rame Colorado 1312, Acapulco blue 5l and my former QV Mimran, unfortunately the financials do not fit the wishlist.
     
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    #26621 Jalpa_Mike, Feb 2, 2020
    I know that feeling quite well too, Raymond! :D

    Mike
     
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    #26623 joe sackey, Feb 2, 2020
    We have very similar tastes Raymond, I had a yellow LP400 (1120192), a Blu Tahiti S1 (1121038) and of course still have the Bordeaux Speciale Mimran Downdraft (GLA12997).

    It is an LP400S 'moody' wing without end-plates, it will be removed and kept aside.
     
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    #26624 joe sackey, Feb 3, 2020
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    I believe this is Ferrari F1 driver Carlos Reutemann and an LP400S S3 at Monza in 1982.

    Looks like he's yelling to someone: "how do you open this damned trunk?!"

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    #26625 raymondQV, Feb 3, 2020
    I guess this is #1402, swiss side indicator setup delivered dec. 1981 to laborghini SA of Leimer in Rosso/rosso.
     
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