RE: Time For Coffee? Countach!
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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.
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 ![yes](/inc/images/yes.gif)
don logan said:
cv01jw said:
"And two milk" :-)![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
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)
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.![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Cannonball 1 Intro
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Turn up the volume. Even the cheesy music can't spoil it.
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Cannonball 1 Intro
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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!![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Never forgot the feeling and sound of that car and the attention we got as we cruised the streets of Harrow!
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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.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.![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Cannonball 1 Intro
![cloud9](/inc/images/cloud9.gif)
I love the opening credit music to the film!!!Turn up the volume. Even the cheesy music can't spoil it.
![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Cannonball 1 Intro
![cloud9](/inc/images/cloud9.gif)
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.
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