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orangeLP400 said:
Car is still in the UK and in London area and the owner is not on here. I can say it is in lovely condition and well looked after and has been in the same ownership for a long time.
Many thanks, they look fantastic in any colour and can only dream of what it would be like to own one, being a dream I think orange is the colour I would go for!I mentioned the car to my brother, he came straight back with the registration plate 3 DUU so definitely the same car!
Edited by LDM on Wednesday 1st April 12:15
LDM said:
Many thanks, they look fantastic in any colour and can only dream of what it would be like to own one, being a dream I think orange is the colour I would go for!
I mentioned the car to my brother, he came straight back with the registration plate 3 DUU so definitely the same car!
It is indeed something of a privilege to own one and your choice of colour, which normally would be ill advised, is with this car in particularly good taste! As for arancio i can say i have seen variations of it in Miuras and countachs with the miura being more blood orange and the countach seemingly that way inclined but not quite and then my own car which seems to vary enormously with the light, more of an orange orange if there is such a thing. It was decades before i saw another orange car on the road and something of a disappointment when i eventually did, it being a fast ford focus, which spoilt it for me!I mentioned the car to my brother, he came straight back with the registration plate 3 DUU so definitely the same car!
Edited by LDM on Wednesday 1st April 12:15
112026 - My recollection is that the car as shown at the 1974 London Earls Court Motor Show in the second week was red( I attended the show as a then schoolboy)
I have studied the photographs taken at Stephen Victor's premises at Downers Cottages in Clapham by the late Peter Lazzaradi, and believe the orange colour rendition to be misleading.
It would be interesting to know if 112026 was actually invoiced by the Australian backed importer,Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini, or by the later formed Berlinetta Italia, as the car was first registered on 5 May 1975 , according to DVLA records.
Perhaps Mr Keen may add some comment.
I have studied the photographs taken at Stephen Victor's premises at Downers Cottages in Clapham by the late Peter Lazzaradi, and believe the orange colour rendition to be misleading.
It would be interesting to know if 112026 was actually invoiced by the Australian backed importer,Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini, or by the later formed Berlinetta Italia, as the car was first registered on 5 May 1975 , according to DVLA records.
Perhaps Mr Keen may add some comment.
Ian.C said:
112026 - My recollection is that the car as shown at the 1974 London Earls Court Motor Show in the second week was red( I attended the show as a then schoolboy)
I have studied the photographs taken at Stephen Victor's premises at Downers Cottages in Clapham by the late Peter Lazzaradi, and believe the orange colour rendition to be misleading.
It would be interesting to know if 112026 was actually invoiced by the Australian backed importer,Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini, or by the later formed Berlinetta Italia, as the car was first registered on 5 May 1975 , according to DVLA records.
Perhaps Mr Keen may add some comment.
I was told by Del Hopkins [one of the former bosses of Portman Lamborghini] that 1120026 was supplied into the UK to the Australians who had taken over the UK Concessionaire temporarily and Portman only supplied the cars after that.I have studied the photographs taken at Stephen Victor's premises at Downers Cottages in Clapham by the late Peter Lazzaradi, and believe the orange colour rendition to be misleading.
It would be interesting to know if 112026 was actually invoiced by the Australian backed importer,Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini, or by the later formed Berlinetta Italia, as the car was first registered on 5 May 1975 , according to DVLA records.
Perhaps Mr Keen may add some comment.
Ian.C said:
......112026 - My recollection is that the car as shown at the 1974 London Earls Court Motor Show in the second week was red......
What I had failed to notice is that the translation of "racing red" is "rosso corsa" which is half way between orange and red! So I asked my friend Kevin Crauwels in Belgium if he could help identify the other cars present at the show. The other cars, all rosso corsa, were almost certainly:Jarama GTS #10620 consigned 14/10/74 to UK
Espada S3 #9432 consigned 10/10/74 to UK
Urraco #15826 consigned 10/10/74 [to UK en route] to Al Mansour Saudi Arabia.
Interesting to see the 74 Motor Show Jarama proposed as 10620.
Accepting that chassis numbers did not necessarily follow in date order, I assumed 10620 to have been built 1975 - this based on seeing the lamborghini GB invoice for 10618 dated 9.12.75 and 10602 to have been first registered 12.02.1975.
Were all the four show cars RHD? - I cannot recall from my attendance at the time and the Autocar magazine and Peter lazzari pictures only appear to confirm RHD for the Countach.
Accepting that chassis numbers did not necessarily follow in date order, I assumed 10620 to have been built 1975 - this based on seeing the lamborghini GB invoice for 10618 dated 9.12.75 and 10602 to have been first registered 12.02.1975.
Were all the four show cars RHD? - I cannot recall from my attendance at the time and the Autocar magazine and Peter lazzari pictures only appear to confirm RHD for the Countach.
New rear hoops arrived today. Very good service and fab price from Oponeo. Ordered on Tuesday, delivered today.
I brought some fronts from Longstones couple weeks ago. these were dated from 2012. The rears, one is 3813 and the other 0314! I thought the last batch made was 2012, but looks like the factory is still churning these out.
R
I brought some fronts from Longstones couple weeks ago. these were dated from 2012. The rears, one is 3813 and the other 0314! I thought the last batch made was 2012, but looks like the factory is still churning these out.
R
LDM said:
Robert W said:
Hi
If it was the late 70s and in the UK, I'd guess it was the car pictured below. There was only one UK RHD orange Countach LP400 (there was a second one new to South Africa, but it was still over there in the 70s now in the UK and owned by orangeLP400 above). Only other UK RHD Orange Countach was an Anniversary, but not manufactured until 1989/1990 so not this car.
If it was UK and RHD, it'd be this car....
Hi,If it was the late 70s and in the UK, I'd guess it was the car pictured below. There was only one UK RHD orange Countach LP400 (there was a second one new to South Africa, but it was still over there in the 70s now in the UK and owned by orangeLP400 above). Only other UK RHD Orange Countach was an Anniversary, but not manufactured until 1989/1990 so not this car.
If it was UK and RHD, it'd be this car....
Thanks for this and (all the other replies).
My memory of the car are fairly vague despite walking past it on a regular basis and always watching in awe when it drove past.
So is the car still in the uk and is the owner on here?
Martin350 said:
May 1990, Brands Hatch.
Mike t'Lake's (at the time), only days after he'd bought it.
I'd met Mr. Lake several times before this so we did talk about this car.
He was very kind to me (I was a spotty, scruffy, 15 year old), a really nice guy, and when I politely asked, he took me out on track in it. As he did many other people that day.
I'm not saying how many revs he was using, but it was a lot!
At the time, this was the best day of my life so far!
As a spectator the car sounded, and looked, absolutely fantastic out on track.
I distinctly remember watching it going through Surtees and that it sounded very much like a Group C racer, the exhaust was not standard and it made a great racket!
My 7 in the background. KHPC as it was then. These were happy days, I'll dig out some pics and of CS Goodwood too. Mike t'Lake's (at the time), only days after he'd bought it.
I'd met Mr. Lake several times before this so we did talk about this car.
He was very kind to me (I was a spotty, scruffy, 15 year old), a really nice guy, and when I politely asked, he took me out on track in it. As he did many other people that day.
I'm not saying how many revs he was using, but it was a lot!
At the time, this was the best day of my life so far!
As a spectator the car sounded, and looked, absolutely fantastic out on track.
I distinctly remember watching it going through Surtees and that it sounded very much like a Group C racer, the exhaust was not standard and it made a great racket!
Countach featuring heavily in this 80's revival number - also features Hasselhoff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY&fe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY&fe...
DH01 said:
My 7 in the background. KHPC as it was then. These were happy days, I'll dig out some pics and of CS Goodwood too.
I'd love to see more pics from that era! At the time I took that photo I was at school and was Saturday boy at KHPC, washing cars, making tea, hoovering the showroom etc.
Much better than a paper round!
I worked there later on when it was The Ferrari Centre too.
Happy days!
After 30 years, FINALLY I have seen the 500 mile from new Countach LP5000S, which is at ddclassics in London after being purchased as part of a 27 car collection with Talacrest, and after being for sale for many years at Amari Supercars. Thank you to all the guys at ddclassics - they offered to take a photo of me with the car, and I thought why not, and felt like a little boy again!! The photo maybe makes me look like one of the headless horsemen of the apocalypse, but the car looks great, and was sitting near to a RHD Testarossa with 1300m on the clock! Nice. 
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