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  1. Lemacc

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    #26651 Lemacc, Feb 20, 2020
    LP400 #1120284 was originally 'Blu Metallizzato - Bianco', ordered by Hubert Hahne, built and delivered in September 1977.
     
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    #26652 joe sackey, Feb 20, 2020
    Very cool.
     
  3. joe sackey

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  4. EMILIO

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    #26654 EMILIO, Feb 21, 2020
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    i think the hundreds of shares about this other LP400S in verde abete with Gold wheels, (on instagram, facebook and many vintage-countach lamborghini groups), had an impact on the owner of the RHD car :)
    so finally, after many years the car is back to original verde abete

    p.s. both these countach are Series 2 cars

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    #26656 EMILIO, Feb 21, 2020
    if is the one i have in mind.... very hard to beat the attention to details of this owner ;)
     
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  7. Robert W

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    #26658 Ellagirl, Feb 21, 2020
    Stunning color combo.
     
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    #26659 vfinaldi, Feb 21, 2020
    Vero!!!
     
  10. EarlyCat

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    Shot gun shack n another prt of the World GS KW KY
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  11. joe sackey

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    #26661 joe sackey, Feb 22, 2020
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    My understanding is the Australian RHD car always planned to go back to Verde Abete simply because that was the original color and not because he was inspired by the tendency that seems to be popular these days for people to paint every Supercar they can get their hands on in non-original green (F40, Pagani etc).

    Robert!

    You have discovered perhaps the only surviving image of yours truly with my very first Lamborghini, Countach LP500S CLA12515, the famed Fastest Car in the World according to MOTOR magazine, who tested it to it's limit against Ferrari & Porsche at Bembridge Airport in in the Isle of Wight in the early 80s.

    I can date this image to the summer of 1988 and I was momentarily parked in the bus-lane (as one does when driving a Countach!) on Park Lane as I dropped off something to a friend who worked @ BMW of Park Lane.

    I have many images of CLA12515, but I was not in the habit of posing with the car ever, so this image is a rarity.

    I bought CLA12515 directly from Portmans to use, and use it I did, driving it several times a week for the time that I owned it, in 1989 I traded this Countach for my first Downdraft, which I drove more extensively on both road & track.

    Thank you for sharing this, fond memories, here's a slightly better version of the same image, good on Clive Newrick for taking it, and to think 33 years later I'm still driving a Countach, cheers!

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  12. joe sackey

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    #26662 joe sackey, Feb 22, 2020
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    The original Verde Abete LP400S S2 1121124 always captured my imagination with its sublime one-off livery, a Countach star, featured as it was in that famed magazine article. Now that the cars are worth what they are, it's nice to see so the original spec & livery of so many Countachs being respected and revived, that said I'm not sure if they went back to the original dark brown Testa di Moro interior.

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    #26663 Rossocorsa1, Feb 22, 2020

    Nice story. We all have them related to this car.
     
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    #26664 Spyder-Man, Feb 23, 2020
    Great period shot! And Joe has hair !!! :D
     
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    #26665 joe sackey, Feb 23, 2020
    The Eighties, my friend ;)
     
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    #26667 33guana, Feb 23, 2020
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    Former Shah of Iran's LP400 in the National Auto Museum of Iran .... Sad to see it in this condition, along with other supercars pre 1979 (year of the revolution in Iran .....) such as Miura, Ghibli, 365BB , 500 Superfast, Bizzarrini 5300 Strada ....

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    Here more pics...

    https://indafoto.hu/fomics/irani_auto_muzeum/page/7

    https://indafoto.hu/fomics/irani_auto_muzeum/page/6

    https://indafoto.hu/fomics/irani_auto_muzeum/page/5

    https://indafoto.hu/fomics/irani_auto_muzeum/page/2
     
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    #26668 GTAV6, Feb 23, 2020
    Indeed. It was the article in Modern Motor [May 1980] on this car that introduced me to - and absolutely hooked me on - the Countach. Any fantasy garage lineup of mine always begins with #1121124 in its original guise.
     
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    #26669 Lemacc, Feb 24, 2020
    Do you know the original colour scheme? :cool:
     
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    #26671 Lambocars666, Feb 24, 2020
    That red Countach S @ Monaco GP is 1121210 / CLA12471.
     
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    #26672 raymondQV, Feb 24, 2020
    #1121158 was one (perhaps even #7 - kidding) of 9 Rame Colorado/Senape and should be put back into it's original color. Originally to Canada 7th May 1980.
     
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    #26673 joe sackey, Feb 25, 2020
    And Countach S1 1068 which should be Blu Acapulco is now Rame Colorado!
     
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