Countach

[paulqv]

I think this is Wolfs car with the original wing. He did up about 2-3 of these and this may be one of the last, the first was very 'bolt' on as far as I recall. I am sure I have pics of it

[paulqv]

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[paulqv]

this is essentially what the car is made of steel tunes onto which a body is hung!

[paulqv]

At the factory

[paulqv]

[SimonMorris]

Martin350 said:

Ok, one more for tonight then.

Here's A6GRO at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, June 1994 on an 88.5 QV.

This is the car that was originally on F922 OYR (and now back on that plate) I believe- currently sitting in my small collection- Tony O'Neill owned it at the time (not got my papers with me so may not have spelling correct). Thanks for posting. A great thread

[Honk]

SimonMorris said:

Martin350 said:

Ok, one more for tonight then.

Here's A6GRO at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, June 1994 on an 88.5 QV.

This is the car that was originally on F922 OYR (and now back on that plate) I believe- currently sitting in my small collection- Tony O'Neill owned it at the time (not got my papers with me so may not have spelling correct). Thanks for posting. A great thread

Fantastic thread! I remember seeing this one parked up next to the Mclaren F1 display that year at Goodwood

[rubystone]

IN51GHT said:

IMO they look best without the wings, arches, sill or air scoops.

and with the periscopa...

[Robert W]

Early 1980s testdays? That's just showing off. More please! Mr Countachman do you have photos of 5000S reg A89THV and A160AHN and B502WYE from the early 1980s by any chance?

Here the pink car when it became white (in the same showroom)

Edited by Robert W on Tuesday 3rd December 18:43

[Robert W]

Next Castle Combe DeTomaso Drivers Club Testday in 1990 (must have been any early trip out for F924OYR) and Brands Hatch in 1992.

[Robert W]

LBO156 is the same car as C701BYX

This pearl QV with a light green interior was destroyed sadly.

AGGRO

KM8 now belongs to Harry Metcalf and doesn't have a wing.

CYC31C is the red/red car being redone in blue which was A663SUV or something-or-other a few posts back

Edited by Robert W on Tuesday 3rd December 18:44

[Robert W]

I have a big heap of Portman photos, so here goes:

Portman Lamborghini's showroom was a small shop at 108 George Street in London. Picture of the front, from the back (you could fit about 4 cars in there at a push). Here are a black Anniv, the pearl/light green QV again and LP400 RHD JYP43N when it was red. G454TYU is a red Anniversary - there were a set of 4 G451 452 453 and 454 all red.



At the back of the showroom was a parking lot. Here's a LHD black QV, an LM002 and the only RHD blue QV. Bath time for a white 88..and G451TYU one of the set of 4 red anniversaries

[Robert W]

Behind the red anniversary is the only yellow QV - seen before as 666RU, but also 25ASM and C705BYX in its life - the latter in a car magazine up against a performance bike.

Miura SV in RHD in white (oops, sorry this is a Countach thread)

Finally red white and black Countachs. THE RED ONE I NEED HELP WITH: it is a RHD red with black Countach S (with S on the back, not 5000S) reg STK180. What car is this and what happened to it? Was it resprayed another colour or did it go abraod? Portman had it for nearly 2 years, but then it disappeared.

[Robert W]

Last of this heap - because the showroom was so small and narrow, there were big mirrors on the wall. As the cars were so crammed in, it was often easier to take photos in the mirror. Here are F925OYR (88 QV), F928OYR (4th Anniversary to come into the UK) and a backwards (but quite good, really) photo Harry Metcalf's QV again. When you take a photo in the mirror with the inside of the window in the background, the "portman lamborghini" reads the right way round. Maybe I spent too long in the showroom as a kid if I noticed these types of things....

A6GRD on a red 88 is F922OYR, yes.

I'll take a rest. I haven't even started on the track day, Historic festival, LCUk meet photos or anything.

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[alan witt]

Fantastic pics thanks for posting, brings back many memories. I have very similar photos from the same era floating around somewhere. Always wondered how they got the cars lengthwise along the window, they must have done an 18 point manoeuvre

[Robert W]

Post them here! I've discovered you can scan several together on a scanner and post them as one photo, which is much quicker and easier.

..all the times I went there, I never saw them manoervring the cars in the showroom, yet they changed them around regularly.

[carspath]

Robert w and martin 350 , thank you for the photos of F920OYR....hugely appreciated

snapper seven, please do see if you have any photos of this car in your collection

Robert w, you are correct , nigel Holland did indeed have 4 countaches in quick succession
if you know the DRON countach bible, the white car at the start of the book was nigels
there are photos of F920OYR in the book as well
nigel sold F920OYR to get an aston martin db7
nigel was in the tyre business I believe

I bought the car on 26 may 2001 from Lamborghini London , and went down to the factory for the 40 th anniversary do in ? October of the same year
I took a copy of the DRON book with me , and valentino signed the book on the page facing the full page photograph of F920OYR
(the other highlight of this trip was meeting stanzani and pagani)

just as I was leaving home to go on my summer hols this year, I grabbed a copy (one of about 6 that I have....well it does have a full page spread of F920OYR) of the dron book, as I felt that there was an outside chance that I might visit the lambo factory again
well it was my lucky summer, as valentino agreed to meet me at the factory museum, and after spending an hour with me and my wife at the museum , suggested that we go for lunch (all my Christmases in one day)
after lunch, I produced the dron book for valentino to sign , and turned to the appropriate page , only to find there was already a scribbled message dated 2001
purely by chance , I had picked up the same copy of the dron book that I had taken with me to the 40th do in 2001
valentino was amused to find that his hand writing had not changed much in the intervening 12 years
I have a photo of this on my I pad, and now only need to get some cleverness, so that I can send and attach it to this thread


Robert w ,I was going to ask for some photos of the portman lambo showroom , and you have already anticipated this request ,and posted these photos

as someone who was besotted by countaches from the very early 80's onwards, I feel that I have missed out in not visiting the portman showroom, and in not attending those car events of the 70's and 80's, when the countach was a contemporary car

these photos help fill that void

I can still very vividly remember seeing my first real life countach in a showroom in texas in 1984----it was a white car with a ?black interior , and seemed a totally unobtainable dream.....thank god for depreciation