RE: Time For Coffee? Countach!

[Alfanatic]

As a child of the '80s, that is the definitive supercar for me. I kept pausing the video just to take in all the detail on the fantastic angles the filmer kept finding, and the Countach does have a lot of fantastic angles. To me the Countach looks like a vehicle built simply to get the most out of a massive, powerful and hungry engine. Brutally functional, but pretend functional in a Star Wars, Judge Dredd or Mad Max way, not in an "actually this really is properly functional" way.

[y2blade]

Alfanatic said:

As a child of the '80s, that is the definitive supercar for me. I kept pausing the video just to take in all the detail on the fantastic angles the filmer kept finding, and the Countach does have a lot of fantastic angles. To me the Countach looks like a vehicle built simply to get the most out of a massive, powerful and hungry engine. Brutally functional, but pretend functional in a Star Wars, Judge Dredd or Mad Max way, not in an "actually this really is properly functional" way.

Agreed

[Dave Hedgehog]

don logan said:

cv01jw said:

y2blade said:

I blame the CannonBall Run films

Fantastic films, and loved the black countach with the front spoiler. Although my favourite car for some reason was always this:

"And two milk" :-)

lol this was on telly a couple of days ago, i had forgotten how funny it was


as for the lambo, its pure automotive emotion and a true supercar, it looks outrageously brilliant and it sounds fantastic

who cares how it drives, 99.99 of us will never get to drive one (although i have sat in the drivers seat of one)

[Jonny TVR]

when i was in my early teens a neighbour used to work for a car dealers and used to bring home various exotic cars but the one I remember was the countach. It looked out of this world in our little piece of suburbia... never did get that ride in it!

[Wehrner]

The iconic image everyone has of the Countach, however I actually prefer the original design, less vents, less fins and less fibreglass wheel arches. It has a nice purity.

Prototype (girls not included)



LP400

[Limpet]

It was the first Cannonball film intro that made me fall in love with these cars:

Turn up the volume. Even the cheesy music can't spoil it.

Cannonball 1 Intro

[Evo]

Thank-you for posting the "right" Cannonball clip. The Lambo was a fake in the second??

How to make me stand on the spot, put an F40 on one side and a Countach on the other and ask me to pick one. Doh.

[Gruffy]

zebedee said:

Gumball Rally was better I reckon.

The original Trophy Dash can't really be compared to the plastic mockeries for the MTV generation that followed.

[sorrel]

Love the Countach! When I was a kid in the early 70s I had the pleasure of riding in one of the first Countachs in the UK, brought over from Geneva by a friend's father who had a supercar showroom.

Never forgot the feeling and sound of that car and the attention we got as we cruised the streets of Harrow!

[dinkel]

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...



And what a ride!

[Gruffy]

Evo said:

Thank-you for posting the "right" Cannonball clip. The Lambo was a fake in the second??

…unlike the frame-rate in the first? The magic of film-making. By most accounts the reality of the Countach falls far short of the fantasy. Fortunately reality isn't all that important when it comes to petrolhead fantasies.

[clarki]

Yup, Countach > all other cars...still.

[sorrel]

Wehrner said:

The iconic image everyone has of the Countach, however I actually prefer the original design, less vents, less fins and less fibreglass wheel arches. It has a nice purity.

Prototype (girls not included)



LP400

Agreed! The LP400 in yellow was exactly as the car I rode in. Magic!

[garypotter]

great little footage and also to see someone enjoying their car, ps is that his own persoanl collection?

F40 for me still but a great car and preferred the lambo with the vents and rear spoiler as per vid.

[LeighW]

Gruffy said:

By most accounts the reality of the Countach falls far short of the fantasy.

I don't care. It'd still be first in my lotto winning garage.

[stephen300o]

Thanks, lovely footage of probably still the greatest supercar in her best clothes.

[y2blade]

LeighW said:

Gruffy said:

By most accounts the reality of the Countach falls far short of the fantasy.

I don't care. It'd still be first in my lotto winning garage.

Same.

[B.J.W]

Limpet said:

It was the first Cannonball film intro that made me fall in love with these cars:

Turn up the volume. Even the cheesy music can't spoil it.

Cannonball 1 Intro

I love the opening credit music to the film!!!

I had the Athena Black Countach poster on my bedroom wall - it took pride of place along with an Athena 512 BB and a 930 (flatnose) Turbo. It did eventually make way for my all-time favourite car - a 288 GTO, but there is something mystical about a Countach..... to the extent that I hope I never get the chance to drive one.

[Carnnoisseur]

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y2blade said:

Agreed

Also agreed. I had this exact model in the white on my room also. Can't believe the credentials for comfort, 5ft 8, check, size 9 shoe or under, check. A bespoke Lamborghini, where do I sign......

Awesome clip, completely made my day!!!

[Jellymonster]

Evo said:

Thank-you for posting the "right" Cannonball clip. The Lambo was a fake in the second??

How to make me stand on the spot, put an F40 on one side and a Countach on the other and ask me to pick one. Doh.

The white/red lambo in CBR 2 was a fake??????