Official Countach Value Thread

these sellers are dreaming of course...but what can i say, good luck to them! and yes, also on the mobile.de the prices are unbelievable. i hope that one day these cars will be really worth and sold for $1M like the Miura now, but is this getting out of hand?
lets enjoy these beautiful cars!

 

haha very true, but a Countach is better than a house...well maybe

 

Well, you can ALWAYS sleep in your car....very very hard to DRIVE your house...

 

Perhaps more desirable! But the fact is, falling real estate prices always comes first before reality sets in with classic car values.

 

so whats something like this worth, whats the thoughts out there..?

1988 Lamborghini Countach with ONLY 2108 MILES, books, tools, documents INCLUDING MSRP Window sticker, import papers, MSO document.

AND if its worth spending $20K to put the Euro bumpers on it, front and rear....will you get that back in the selling price..OR IS IT so Original and low miles, leave it the way it is and let the next owner decide??
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Wow, nice find Roy. All four toasters and all. Regardless of what you decide someone's going to get a nice car.

 

very beautiful, excellent color combo. i remember seeing one in these colors for sale in the uk not too long ago..

 

Is it worth more than the Anni just sold from the Andrews collection? interesting comparo,miles very similar,altough very different colors,

 

Nice car! They look best in black in my opinion. I think that if you are selling it in a private deal, leave the bumpers on and let the buyer decide, with the appropriate adjustment in the selling price. But, if selling at a big auction, like Bonham, Gooding, RM, etc., the change them, because the visual 'pop' is more important, and bidding decisions based on looks and emotions are more likely to be made if the car looks its best. Of course, the US bumpers would go with the car, but who in their right mind would put them back on?

 

leave it as is
as such a low miles examples i would not touch it and let the next owner decide.

 

More, as the original Countach shape is more desirable than the Anniversary.

 

To bad they cut the center console to put that key pad in, but as far as the bumpers go leave them on, originality = $$$$$ at this point.

 

Whats up with the door sill/speaker perforation? Are they altered /redone at one point? Ar the lower/ front perfortions missing? No big deal,just looks different with the big circular inprint and uneven/number of holes. Means nothing value vice,just curious.

 

Yes, strange, I have seen that a few times, I guess that's the way the installed Stereo Systems back in the day..it will be easy to remove and repair...will see once it gets here.

 

Look closely and you can see a band of sunlight crossing over it into the seat, gicing you the illusion of not even are different perforations.

 

There's not one single owner or buyer who prefers the US bumpers. I say chop them off. I dont think its an originality issue because they are not intended to be on the car, just tacked on to get into the US.

 

My car, 2,900 mile RHD 5000S, just been recommissioned by Valentino, being loaded onto the truck in Italy today, will be home with me soon!
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Of course no one likes the US bumpers, they are ugly as hell and they are not part of the original design of the car. BUT,,, for Lamborghini to enter the US market, which was very important for the company at that time period, this is what they had to do to make the car saleable in the United States and I think that is a very important and interesting part of the companies history. Don't forget, this is the way the car LEFT THE FACTORY. I will guarantee you that the first US QV to ever sell for a million dollars will have the ugly US spec bumpers on it. Most people don't get it yet. It's not just about beauty when you get to a million plus dollars, it's more about originality. Yes the Countach looks so much better without those bumpers, but those bumpers and side skirts are part of the companies history. If you have a car you drive and you don't care about the resale value then of course rip them off and paint the car whatever color you like. But on a low mileage original car, if your looking for maximum resale value, you better keep it as original as you can.

 

I respectfully disagree. Theses cars were never designed with these appendages and the first DD QVs imported slipped in without them. No one wants a car with these appendages and it is informally agreed they are awful and they detract from value. They are not part of the original factory design. The modifications were first put on by aftermarket companies who drilled gigantic holes into the aluminum and had various ways to try to get passed US regulations. Later the factory tried to come up with a solution but it was never uniform. Some attempts to get pass the new regulations were comical. The crude modifications were neither important or interesting. They were just hacking up the car after assembly. In 1985-1987, after the bodies were prepared on the assembly line, painted and prepped, the cars bound for the U.S. were designated, and reluctantly, and not uniformally, butchered up, pre-importation to the US. The car were never designed like this by the factory. IMHO the Countach values have suffered for a long time by most cars people saw in the U.S. had these terrible modifications that obscured the design of the car. The appendages were simply crude after thought, after design, modification to the cars at the end of the assembly line to get them into the country. Various people, both factories and importers tried various was to modify the cars after they were designed. (Some used a front wing as a bumper, others used a rear bar.) There was little uniformity to the cars from 85-88. So there will never be a collector virtue to keep the modifications and those with the appendages will always be worth less as they always have been. The only excuse for keeping the cars with the modifications is because the expense is huge to revert them before the modifications. As the cars get expensive collectors have been and should continue to revert them to the original design spec of the car.

Side skirts are a different matter. Yes they are not as desirable, and not as collectible, but in late 87-88 they were designed by the factory like this on all cars. I don't think they made an 88 model without them and they were intentionally incorporated into the new design.

The anniversary cars were the first cars designed by the factory to meet specifications.

 

Not exactly
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/141906605-post15514.html

 

You never know, with the low production #'s the 88.5 cars may become more desirable someday (side skirts and all).
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/143655763-post20526.html

 

They belong on the 25th Anniversario and suit its design.

Not-so-much on earlier cars.

 

Andrew, the end of an epic journey from South Africa to the UK via Italy! Enjoy this as-new Countach!

 

That looks like at Top Motors in Nonantola.

 

When I look at other collector cars and the trend, the old Corvettes come to my mind first. Original hose clamps, overspray on the exhaust manifolds, orange peel in the paint, smog pumps, numbers matching everything, chalk marks, alignments off, etc are on a high point car. Just the way it left the factory. On most everything else the money is in originality.

Luckily some cars are left alone, if used for nothing more than a reference.