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I don’t understand why the lp400 that Simon Furlonger has for sale , they state first registered LGF849N … when it was actually JYH928N ..
IAN C ,,, your right , it’s funny what things you remember from being a 13 yr old !!
When I win the lottery , I will definitely be buying my schoolboy dream car , which I went a ride in with the first owner . I sadly should have bought WYN820S ,, when it was offered to me for £30000 😩😩😩
IAN C ,,, your right , it’s funny what things you remember from being a 13 yr old !!
When I win the lottery , I will definitely be buying my schoolboy dream car , which I went a ride in with the first owner . I sadly should have bought WYN820S ,, when it was offered to me for £30000 😩😩😩
minster said:
I don’t understand why the lp400 that Simon Furlonger has for sale , they state first registered LGF849N … when it was actually JYH928N ..
IAN C ,,, your right , it’s funny what things you remember from being a 13 yr old !!
When I win the lottery , I will definitely be buying my schoolboy dream car , which I went a ride in with the first owner . I sadly should have bought WYN820S ,, when it was offered to me for £30000 ??????
Yes it's a shame they don't sell crystal balls on Amazon ,paid £38K for mine ,did very well when i sold it for the right reasons at the time IAN C ,,, your right , it’s funny what things you remember from being a 13 yr old !!
When I win the lottery , I will definitely be buying my schoolboy dream car , which I went a ride in with the first owner . I sadly should have bought WYN820S ,, when it was offered to me for £30000 ??????
9 years later managing me to sort the kids out and replaced it with other cars that on my wish list
but was probably apart from remarrying for the second time one of my worst decisions ,not just because of the increase in values i would be saying this
even if they had gone the other way and devalued but i miss the sense of occasion that no other car i've owned or driven since has got anywhere near .
Being a 400 most of my cars are faster and so much better to drive but lack the theatre of the Countach
Edited by ratrod 2 on Tuesday 21st November 22:58
P5BNij said:
They are small and gives them the impression that they are wide ,My Gallardo was probably wider ,Must admit to liking things original but the orange looks so much better than the previous blue ,
Mike Pullens black with black QV is now blue with beige i believe ,seems it matters less to do a colour
change on a classic Lambo than say a Ferrari or Porsche , mine had two colour changes from it's original gold.
Hello Minster,
I have found little on the early history of chassis 94 and likely records are sparse with the car for sale, so SF may have have limited jnfo.
Del Hopkins kindly confirmed the May 75 delivery documents to Dan Horrocks, but up to 88 I have not found anything.
In 88 the car appears to be advertised for sale as incorrectly the first RHD car .The ad refers to blue body and white trim with 3000 miles recorded, which appears to rule out the higher mileage chassis 26.
The add shows a car with Swiss CH plate,which may be relevant.
Later Classic Cars magazine Dec 96 reported on the car as owned by Mike Lake.
Do you recall the trim colour when you sat in Mr Horrocks car?
I have found little on the early history of chassis 94 and likely records are sparse with the car for sale, so SF may have have limited jnfo.
Del Hopkins kindly confirmed the May 75 delivery documents to Dan Horrocks, but up to 88 I have not found anything.
In 88 the car appears to be advertised for sale as incorrectly the first RHD car .The ad refers to blue body and white trim with 3000 miles recorded, which appears to rule out the higher mileage chassis 26.
The add shows a car with Swiss CH plate,which may be relevant.
Later Classic Cars magazine Dec 96 reported on the car as owned by Mike Lake.
Do you recall the trim colour when you sat in Mr Horrocks car?
minster said:
Hi Ian ..100% it was the beige colour ( senape) .. and the first owner kept it till about 1977 , when he purchased a yellow siliohuette ( KJO590S) .. also from Rodney Turner of Maltin Car Concessionaires in Henley .
Incidentally ,, I was once informed that the LP400 had been involved in some sort of front end smash , and had been taken back to the factory for repairs .. maybe when it was restored there may have been evidence of such .Ian.C said:
Hello Minster,
I have found little on the early history of chassis 94 and likely records are sparse with the car for sale, so SF may have have limited jnfo.
Del Hopkins kindly confirmed the May 75 delivery documents to Dan Horrocks, but up to 88 I have not found anything.
In 88 the car appears to be advertised for sale as incorrectly the first RHD car .The ad refers to blue body and white trim with 3000 miles recorded, which appears to rule out the higher mileage chassis 26.
The add shows a car with Swiss CH plate,which may be relevant.
Later Classic Cars magazine Dec 96 reported on the car as owned by Mike Lake.
Do you recall the trim colour when you sat in Mr Horrocks car?
Hi Ian, ad you are referring to for LP400 RHD blue/white in 1988: could this be 1120070? It came back to the UK around that time. RobertI have found little on the early history of chassis 94 and likely records are sparse with the car for sale, so SF may have have limited jnfo.
Del Hopkins kindly confirmed the May 75 delivery documents to Dan Horrocks, but up to 88 I have not found anything.
In 88 the car appears to be advertised for sale as incorrectly the first RHD car .The ad refers to blue body and white trim with 3000 miles recorded, which appears to rule out the higher mileage chassis 26.
The add shows a car with Swiss CH plate,which may be relevant.
Later Classic Cars magazine Dec 96 reported on the car as owned by Mike Lake.
Do you recall the trim colour when you sat in Mr Horrocks car?
Robert W said:
Ian.C said:
Hello Minster,
I have found little on the early history of chassis 94 and likely records are sparse with the car for sale, so SF may have have limited jnfo.
Del Hopkins kindly confirmed the May 75 delivery documents to Dan Horrocks, but up to 88 I have not found anything.
In 88 the car appears to be advertised for sale as incorrectly the first RHD car .The ad refers to blue body and white trim with 3000 miles recorded, which appears to rule out the higher mileage chassis 26.
The add shows a car with Swiss CH plate,which may be relevant.
Later Classic Cars magazine Dec 96 reported on the car as owned by Mike Lake.
Do you recall the trim colour when you sat in Mr Horrocks car?
Hi Ian, ad you are referring to for LP400 RHD blue/white in 1988: could this be 1120070? It came back to the UK around that time. RobertI have found little on the early history of chassis 94 and likely records are sparse with the car for sale, so SF may have have limited jnfo.
Del Hopkins kindly confirmed the May 75 delivery documents to Dan Horrocks, but up to 88 I have not found anything.
In 88 the car appears to be advertised for sale as incorrectly the first RHD car .The ad refers to blue body and white trim with 3000 miles recorded, which appears to rule out the higher mileage chassis 26.
The add shows a car with Swiss CH plate,which may be relevant.
Later Classic Cars magazine Dec 96 reported on the car as owned by Mike Lake.
Do you recall the trim colour when you sat in Mr Horrocks car?
I never went out around the track with him but sat in it many times as at that time in my life that was as near to a Countach as i thought i would
get..
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your input .
I am sure you are correct, the add I have is chassis 70.
The mileage and colours would be consistent with other records as reported by Bonhamx sale in 2014, and first UK registration in 1990.
For some reason I was fixated on chassis 94, but looked for confirmation on the trim colour of 94 when new ( knowing it senape /tan later)
I had heard that John Pullicino had imported the car(70) into the UK from Malta, if correct, but the CH plate may say otherwise.
The 88 add was from John Pullicino's establishment Classico.
Thanks for your input .
I am sure you are correct, the add I have is chassis 70.
The mileage and colours would be consistent with other records as reported by Bonhamx sale in 2014, and first UK registration in 1990.
For some reason I was fixated on chassis 94, but looked for confirmation on the trim colour of 94 when new ( knowing it senape /tan later)
I had heard that John Pullicino had imported the car(70) into the UK from Malta, if correct, but the CH plate may say otherwise.
The 88 add was from John Pullicino's establishment Classico.
This is such a special car for me in that I am from Bolton and saw this car there about mid late 1970s, and is THE car that started by fandom of Lambos and
these cars. It was off the bridge nr the Bolton fire station and a mile from where is would have lived. This car I should own because it created the life long love and lust for the machine. Another link is that my old mate Mike Lake took me round Goodwood in it in the early 1980s, when Mike had a 'F' Datona or so they are called...a red one or something, anyway back to Lamborghini Ha. I guess even though I never owned this one it did take me 25 years from being a student to owning a 500S LHD, Red/White/Gold Wheels/Wing....now a triple white car and in Israel! I still keep in touch with Mike Lake and Pullen, and still love the cars going in a friends QV often. This car though is imprinted into my head as a WOW from the 70s and still is a WOW now.
these cars. It was off the bridge nr the Bolton fire station and a mile from where is would have lived. This car I should own because it created the life long love and lust for the machine. Another link is that my old mate Mike Lake took me round Goodwood in it in the early 1980s, when Mike had a 'F' Datona or so they are called...a red one or something, anyway back to Lamborghini Ha. I guess even though I never owned this one it did take me 25 years from being a student to owning a 500S LHD, Red/White/Gold Wheels/Wing....now a triple white car and in Israel! I still keep in touch with Mike Lake and Pullen, and still love the cars going in a friends QV often. This car though is imprinted into my head as a WOW from the 70s and still is a WOW now.
Martin350 said:
Mike Lake told me about thirty years ago that he'd never sell his Daytona.
Does he still have it..?
I arrived at Mike Pullens just a hour or so after Mike Lakes old Countach had been collected after it's restoration was completedDoes he still have it..?
and the conversation turned to Mike Lake, Mike Pullen said he had visited the workshop around a year previously
up til then he hadn't seen him for some years, i asked the same question about the Daytona and he believed it had been sold some years previously.
countachman said:
The cars I think are long gone now. I met up with him 3 years ago for a chat. I still have the old article from GQ magazine back in the 80s!! maybe with him in it.
Have mentioned this sometime ago,There is a video somewhere on "You Tube " with the two Mikes racing the Orient Expressfrom London to Venice, Mike pullen in his low body Countach and Mike Lake in his Daytona,
It's on the" yasminlebondotnet channel"
Title "Orient Express London to Venice racing challenge 1991"
Mike Lake looking like something out of a heavy metal rock band and Mike Pullen doing his best impression of the Mario Brothers
with his crazy moustache. Worth a look for those who remember Mikes Carrera Sport track days with fond memories.
Adam. said:
Thanks ,was hoping someone would link it.Still in the stone age regarding tech stuff
At the time of that event I was a teenager and worked a saturday job at a local Ferrari specialist.
I washed Mike Lake's Daytona after that event (I seem to remember it came in for a service both before and after that event) and I've never seen a more bug-splatted car before or since, haha!
Those guys must have driven the cars very hard and had a lot of fun!
I don't know why but I feel kind of sad that he doesn't still have it after telling me how he loved the car so much...
I hope he's well. He was always very nice to me and seemed a real gentleman.
He took me round Brands Hatch in his LP400 around that time, which was my first ride in any Lamborghini, and an experience which I will always remember very fondly.
I washed Mike Lake's Daytona after that event (I seem to remember it came in for a service both before and after that event) and I've never seen a more bug-splatted car before or since, haha!
Those guys must have driven the cars very hard and had a lot of fun!
I don't know why but I feel kind of sad that he doesn't still have it after telling me how he loved the car so much...
I hope he's well. He was always very nice to me and seemed a real gentleman.
He took me round Brands Hatch in his LP400 around that time, which was my first ride in any Lamborghini, and an experience which I will always remember very fondly.
Edited by Martin350 on Wednesday 28th February 01:41
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