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  1. joe sackey

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    #3627 Jota 5084, Sep 21, 2009
    Thoose pics are taken at Kinnekulle Ring, my favorite race track in Sweden.
     
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    #3628 alberto, Sep 21, 2009
    Any pics of this?

    Alberto
     
  4. joe sackey

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    #3629 joe sackey, Sep 22, 2009
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    Sorry Alberto Id really have to dig to find them. But they look like Miura seats to me, although they might simply be Countach seats which have been modified, I really don't know. I was told (completely unsubstantiated by me) by a previous owner of the car that the first owner was heavy-set and had the seats made this way.

    If you look at the image of the car in its second (2nd) guise when silver, you can just about get an impression of the lower backrests of the seats in similar disposition to those in a Miura.
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    #3631 brianp_is, Sep 22, 2009
    sure looks like miura seats to me!
     
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    #3634 Jota 5084, Sep 22, 2009
    Why would they do that?

    IMO Countach seats looks much better, this solution looks uncomfortable to me.
     
  10. Lel

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    #3635 Lel, Sep 22, 2009
    Hello!

    I bought the car in 2000 in the black "S" disguise and I "restored" it back to the silver "Periscopa" look. I drove and enjoied it for some years until I tried to go sideways. The result was a scratched front wing and I sold the car to Gino at Ross AB who fixed the wing and had it repainted green.

    I for sure can tell you that the seats, which by the way are very comfortable, are no Miura seats but cut down Countach ditos. When the cut down was made is a question that I can't answer for sure but it was very professionally made and I would believe that it was made by the factory probably when the car got the aluminum wing extension and the Bravo wheels.

    I sold the "S" kit to Japan. Anyone knows what happened to it?

    There is a new LP400 in my garage, # 142.

    Regards

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    #3636 joe sackey, Sep 22, 2009
    Now that we can see good images - definitely chopped Countach seats.

    I think the Miura seats confusion comes from the pleating of the inserts, which has been done Miura-style, rather than Countach style.
     
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    #3637 EMILIO, Sep 22, 2009
    i am with

    the inserts made them look miura-seats
     
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    #3640 raymondQV, Sep 23, 2009
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    Thurgau, north-east of switzerland, near Konstanz/Kreuzlingen/Bregenz don't know the english name of Bodensee.
    Capital of Thurgau is Frauenfeld, hear the lake shore http://map.search.ch/romanshorn


    Later it was registred BL = Baselland, countryside of Basel. http://map.search.ch/basel

    I think I even know the owner of these TG-plates :)
     
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    #3641 LC3929, Sep 23, 2009
    Bodensee = Lake Constance
     
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    #3642 joe sackey, Sep 23, 2009
    Thanks for the clarification guys, noted.
     
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    #3643 hyenahf, Sep 23, 2009
    any pics of WW CT with the so-called "16 inch bravos"??
     
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    #3644 joe sackey, Sep 23, 2009
    Walter told me he had them made, but he did not provide me with any images.

    He said the reason he cast 16s in favor of 15s was to accommodate the special Lockheed brakes (as opposed to the ATEs) that he was using. I have been able to verify a lot of what Walter told me, by speaking directly to the man who did the work, Gian Paolo Dallara.
     
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    #3645 hyenahf, Sep 24, 2009
    seems like if the replacement lockheed were too big for the 15's and that if that wold car was equipped with those calipers, wouldnt be safe to assume the the bravos on that car were 16's?

    which wolf car came with the racing lockheads? red, blue or the dark CT?
     
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    #3646 EMILIO, Sep 24, 2009
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    a better image
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    #3647 joe sackey, Sep 24, 2009
    It wouldn't be safe to assume anything.

    Wolf was constantly changing the specification of his Countachs on an ongoing basis, and I have seen photographic proof of this in 1120006, 1120148, 1120202 & 1121002.

    According to Wolf, 1121002 (Wolf Formula One Racing Blue) was the car equipped with Lockheed brakes at some point during his ownership.

    I didnt even assume Wolf's 30-year-old recounting was spot-on, even though Gian Paolo Dallara verified his assertions.
     
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    #3648 Jota 5084, Sep 25, 2009
    Whats the horses doing in the background? Were are the bulls?
     
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    #3649 thewarlord, Sep 25, 2009
    Greetings to all;

    might anybody have an image of a Countach V12 Twin Turbo mock-up engine officially shown at Geneva Motorshow, in 1979?

    Many thanks,

    david
     
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    #3650 raymondQV, Sep 25, 2009
    Yes, it's in one of the Lambo Books of Rob Box, I could scan the pages in a few hours.
     
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