Lambo V8...chat/pics.....

[P300V8]

Craig said:

...I think this was probably the first RHD car with external fuel filler and round tailamps...

In my view probably also the first car outright ie RHD or LHD. ELA12014 can be disregarded since this vin was issued out of order.

[Ferruccio]

P300V8 said:

In my view probably also the first car outright ie RHD or LHD. ELA12014 can be disregarded since this vin was issued out of order.

How would 12068 get to be the first car?
Starting at 68 would be even more than usually Italian!?

[P300V8]

Ferruccio said:

How would 12068 get to be the first car?
Starting at 68 would be even more than usually Italian!?

Keep up class! I think that 12068 is the first car [irrespective of LHD/RHD] with external fuel filler and round tail lamps.

[P300V8]

Out and about on Tuesday. 40006 did 250 miles visiting 40032.

[slurpysi]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but there is a dark blue RHD Urraco at the very end of 'Minder' series 1 episode 8 - first aired in December 1979. "Come in T64, Your Time is Ticking Away".

Can see it on youtube;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wccME1rVMo

Any idea as to the car identity ? Doesn't look like mine

[P300V8]

Here are Lamborghinis by model in films...
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Lamborghini.htm...

[countachman]

Hi mate that is a great web site, so cool to see these cars on screen. Oh...I Missed out on the car we spoke about!!

[snapper seven]

Very much in love with this car. These are photos I took of it at the Silverstone Classic.

IMG_0027 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0028 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0030 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0031 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0032 by snapper seven, on Flickr

Just looking again at the above shot, it is amazing how much wheel intrusion there is into the cockpit. What a place to be though. After this you wonder how they got the interior so wrong on the Jalpa.

Cheers
SS

[rich888]

snapper seven said:

Very much in love with this car. These are photos I took of it at the Silverstone Classic.

IMG_0027 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0028 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0030 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0031 by snapper seven, on Flickr

IMG_0032 by snapper seven, on Flickr

Just looking again at the above shot, it is amazing how much wheel intrusion there is into the cockpit. What a place to be though. After this you wonder how they got the interior so wrong on the Jalpa.

Cheers
SS

Yup, the Silhouette looks just soooo right in my eyes especially in red, and the Campagnolo wheels before they were heavily machined for fitment to the Countach, do you remember when the Pirelli P7 tyres were originally used with the very unique tread pattern... thought I had died and gone to heaven.

[P300V8]

The first 50 Countach LP400S series 1 introduced in 1978, a full two years after the Silhouette, had similar Bravo style wheels. The wheels on 40052 you see above are replicas, a pragmatic solution in view of the potential vulnerability of the irreplaceable and priceless Campagnolo originals. The originals from 40006 below have a wavy surface and the exterior of the tele-dial holes have a flat surface facing the rim.

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[rich888]

Anyone else notice that this Silhouette is badged up as a Urraco 3000 which it clearly isn't.

Is very clever design work by Lamborghini because although the Silhouette is indeed based around the Urraco, it doesn't visually look remotely similar.

Just wish I had bought one a few years back

[snapper seven]

I'm pretty sure that is how some/all Silhouettes where badged from the factory.

The '77 brochure certainly has photos of a Silhouette with Urraco badging on the rear.

[P300V8]

The P118 was launched at Geneva 1976 as the Urraco Silhouette. By my reckoning 19 did not have the Urraco badge, the US bodied cars and the RHD cars except 40010.

[dinkel]

160 MPH convoy:

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/160mph-convoy-l...

[rich888]

snapper seven said:

IMG_0027 by snapper seven, on Flickr

Just noticed a passing resemblance to the Aventador in this frontal pic, I find it quite astonishing just how well the exterior of the Silhouette has aged compared to other cars from the same era, including the Uracco on which it was based on, and the Jalpa which replaced it.

Looking at the numberplate, YEL 379S I guess it was registered in 1978 or thereabouts.

Is absolutely beautiful.

[boxerTen]

Silhouette has always been one of my favourite looking cars - ever since the I read the, possibly most well known piece of motoring journalism ever, reprinted in the (from memory) Aussie Sports Car World mag.

[rich888]

dinkel said:

160 MPH convoy:

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/160mph-convoy-l...

Yes I remember reading that article by Mel Nichols in Car magazine (I think) when it was originally printed, and particularly remember reading about the poor old Jaguar XJS driver being overtaken whilst driving flat out at 155mph by not only one Lamborghini, but three of them in succession, how embarrassing for him!

Am sure I still have that 'Car' magazine somewhere, because back in the 1970s and 1980s the quality of 'Car' in those days was so much better than 'Motor' or 'Autocar', was just a brilliant read for a young petrol-head before all this nanny state safety camera parasitic tax revenue funded nonsense reared its ugly head.

[JonathanE]

Here is an entirely gratuitous shot of the very same Mel Nichols in the very same Silhouette pictured above (under its previous ownership, so with some slight differences in appearances) a few years ago.

Jonathan

[P300V8]

And an equally gratuitous shot of 40006 taken by David Watkinson

[dinkel]

Pretty bizarre V8 Lambos don't have the same desirability as period V8 Ferraris.