Countach, the ultimate supercar

My buddies old car that he rebuilt. Still working on getting the VIN. We would love to track this car down again.


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super exiting,the yellow car, so is your friends project

 

Called it wrong looks like they have the the original box section and pressed chassis

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The original the steering column bit looks more or less ok the wheel arch flanges less so

 

Morning all, so I see that there are 2 Countach being offered, part of the Guikas collection. Nice collection, I'll take that JAG XJ220 LM please!

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/jg21

Any opinion on what they will go for? The black LP400 looks in great condition, loving the toolkit! The red LP400s, any story? Seems to have a sports exhaust, but not a brand I'm aware of. Which series is this? II or III?

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Again, my hope is that it is a resurrection of the original car, with the original chassis and as many of the original parts and components from the car
As possible. Afterall, all of those elements ended-up somewhere. It would make sense that Lamborghini had it all stashed away.

 

Stashed away and well preserved......Anyone want to post the 70s photos of scrapyard behind the factory to remind us of how they preserved pieces back then........

 

I never really thought of this: could they have repaired it and re-VIN'd it and sell as one the production cars with the production interior and body? And nobody would know?

I say this because the Urraco (#4) I have is one of the pre-production prototype cars (or body). Evident by a handful of things that were not on any of the production cars and only seen on pre-production. Things like the prototype wheels to the roof vents to the VIN plates installation and more. This was a conclusion brought to my attention as I only supplied the photos I was asked for.
Lamborghini was so in a jam with the Urraco in the beginning that grabbing any car/body/wheels/parts was a free for all to get these cars out.
Could this be the case with the Countach? I do not know how long they had to preserve the car but........

Here is a quote I still have from my email records and this is kinda the way Lamborghini operated:

"The question is of course why the need to weld a plate? In my personal view this is because this body didn’t have one to begin with. I think the production cars had these numbers stamped in this location right from the start. The conclusion must be that your car didn’t start life as a straightforward production car and in my view is likely to be based on a prototype tub.
If you are agreeable I will put these findings to our small group and see what they think.
You may already know that 15008 body 5, the car tested by Fittipaldi, also has 3 roof vents"

I should mention my car is 15006

 

As youe can see, even the chassis was modified later when road testing the car: Lamborghini Countach Prototyp

 

From your site

Below the revised engine bay, the chassis sheet under the engine disappeared, the radiators are located like on all production Countach, refuel cap on the right side and left the water expansion vessel.

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I could see the engine lived on in another car. Selling the chassis / body to the public is vastly different enough that someone would have a story.

 

If they knew or cared enough to remember.

 

Obviously the LP500 was the only car with this kind of extruded pipes like the diablo later, all LP400-25th have the well known tubular frame from marchesi.

 

I wonder if the recreation LP500 reveal will be at Villa d'este?? Seems like a possibility.

https://www.concorsodeleganzavilladeste.com/

 

recreation is made with the help of a big collector
will be shown in one week or so

 

Looking at the pictures of the Countach crash tested at MIRA and the sheet metal chassis, did they crash test a production tubular frame chassis to meet the collision regs?

 

Its amazing they got type approval as the production chassis is nothing like the prototype

 

Ah now that makes sense if Albert is driving the project

 

Go to about 1:30.