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    #24102 joe sackey, Oct 17, 2017
    It looks like the opening cap for some sort of locking or release device, likely post-production application.
     
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    Shot gun shack in another part of the world
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    #24106 joe sackey, Oct 17, 2017
    Yes, image taken by Jeffrey Zwart for Road & Track magazine.
     
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    #24107 raymondQV, Oct 17, 2017
    That time it belonged to Patrick Mimran, from 2001-2015 to me, since 2015 it's owned by Joe.
     
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    #24108 joe sackey, Oct 17, 2017
    Jeffery has more images, he simply has to find his box of color slides!
     
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    #24110 Peter K., Oct 18, 2017
    Another music video. Would have been nice to do away with that music and have 2+minutes of the car running and driving with that Kreissieg exhaust.
     
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    I agree. On Thursday the show will air on TV so hopefully we'll get some nice clips then.
     
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    #24112 hyenahf, Oct 19, 2017
    probably in green with the single wiper ?
     
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    Correct.
     
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    #24114 Jalpa_Mike, Oct 23, 2017
    I’m curious if anyone has tried these shock/springs from Eibach-Bilstein on their Countach? The last I heard was when Raymond was able to make Koni’s (from a Diablo) work on his car back in 2005.

    I wasn’t aware there was now another aftermarket choice.... although I have seen a place out of Georgia called “Mr. Fiat” that has a set also.

    http://www.ntp.it/english/motorsport/marken/lamborghini.html

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    #24115 EarlyCat, Oct 24, 2017
    I think a few have been installed. Nsxer's red 400 has them, I think. Tony's old white dd might be another.
     
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    #24116 joe sackey, Oct 24, 2017
    FWIW those are no longer on GLA12997, Chris & I both test-drove the car prior to disassembly
    for restoration and we elected to go back to factory springs & Way Assauto shocks,
    which we feel are better for road-use.

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    #24117 raymondQV, Oct 24, 2017
    Very good decision, for normal raod use the way assauto are the better choice, if you drive on the track the Koni Sport are of course better, but who really pushes a QV nowadays on a track like I did 10 years back...
     
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    Nobody! ;)
     
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    #24120 P300V8, Oct 25, 2017
    Yes it is an early bumper car with single colour lens but I don't know which one. If the identity of the LP400 can be established that would help greatly...
     
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    #24121 joe sackey, Oct 25, 2017
    Very cool.

    This car was posted earlier in the thread.

    Another Countach LP400 with quad Carello driving lamps was 1120200.

    It also had fabric seat inserts.

    After being converted to an LP400S, when it was restored back to an LP400 in Italy a few years ago,
    neither feature was retained.

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    #24123 Lambocars666, Oct 25, 2017
    This was LP400 #1120246 "Blu Metallizzato - Bianco", delivered new to France in 1977, and that ended up pretty badly in Montréal, Québec / Canada, in the early 80s.

    Here's a better scan of the factory pic
    + another black & white shot taken at the 3rd Ronde Luronne event in France on 29-30 April 1978.
    (the white papers on it are just ads about some SCATT company for car parts, for those who wonder what it was)

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    #24124 Lambocars666, Oct 25, 2017
    Dear Countach enthusiasts,

    This is with great pleasure (and quite some emotion!) to inform you that, after 7 years of intensive (almost desperate!) research, I finally found the LP400S production prototype... is still alive!!

    This was a regular LP400 built during Summer 1975 that was kept and developped discreetly by the factory until early 1978.
    Walter Wolf had his first "private prototype" #1120148 that Summer 1975, the Lamborghini factory had their own too!

    The Countach is in good hands at the moment. Please do not PM me about it, we will reveal more in a very near future.
    Oh, and it is not for sale!     :p

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    #24125 joe sackey, Oct 25, 2017

    Look at the second image of 1120246, only a year old and already there are dents and mismatched mirrors, in that era some of these cars were not babied, these days they are somewhat more revered.
     
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