Help in finding out about my Countach service history
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rdbrooksie said:
Oh wow! Looking at the photos I would say it is my one! I was told that the colour scheme is unique in that the first owner had a Bentley and he wanted his Countach to match it, hence the colour and the leather (Connolly leather) were sent from Bentley to Lambo to use, consequently the car whilst ordered in 1989 was put to near the end of the production in 1990 and then made. Well, thats what they told me when they sold it to me! Still, many many thanks for that!!
Forgot to say, I added the wing when I bought it![quote=XXVIII]... yep, that was Ken's car - he's not a member of LCUK these days but then, neither am I now.
I thought this Anniversary had vanished and I recall he brought this car to the first LCUK meeting I ever attended. At that meeting he took another new (female) member for a drive and said the colour was meant to be a Bentley Brewster green. The wheel nuts were gold plated at that time as well ...
Ken had an original spec. Diablo in gunmetal after this Anniversary and then a Ferrari 550 (or something like that?) after that before another Diablo / SE30 - he's almost certainly retired these days.
I too had a Diablo, but I kept the Countach too. At that time, the Countach stayed in UK and I bought the Diablo in Hong Kong. The Diablo was lousy, so sold it after less than a year (most of which it was off the road waiting for a ECU unit) and so I shipped the Countach to HK to play with. It is my pride and joy and is now back in the UK. Looking forward to some events to show the car off!
I have written a letter to Ken, not sure if he is still at the address I have. Trying to rebuild the history hopefully wont be too bad as aside from Ken, there was only one other owner. Hopefully with the "new" registration number I may be able to find out more......
I thought this Anniversary had vanished and I recall he brought this car to the first LCUK meeting I ever attended. At that meeting he took another new (female) member for a drive and said the colour was meant to be a Bentley Brewster green. The wheel nuts were gold plated at that time as well ...
Ken had an original spec. Diablo in gunmetal after this Anniversary and then a Ferrari 550 (or something like that?) after that before another Diablo / SE30 - he's almost certainly retired these days.
I too had a Diablo, but I kept the Countach too. At that time, the Countach stayed in UK and I bought the Diablo in Hong Kong. The Diablo was lousy, so sold it after less than a year (most of which it was off the road waiting for a ECU unit) and so I shipped the Countach to HK to play with. It is my pride and joy and is now back in the UK. Looking forward to some events to show the car off!
I have written a letter to Ken, not sure if he is still at the address I have. Trying to rebuild the history hopefully wont be too bad as aside from Ken, there was only one other owner. Hopefully with the "new" registration number I may be able to find out more......
rdbrooksie said:
Oh wow! Looking at the photos I would say it is my one! I was told that the colour scheme is unique in that the first owner had a Bentley and he wanted his Countach to match it, hence the colour and the leather (Connolly leather) were sent from Bentley to Lambo to use, consequently the car whilst ordered in 1989 was put to near the end of the production in 1990 and then made. Well, thats what they told me when they sold it to me! Still, many many thanks for that!!
No problem, glad I could help. Good luck with tracing the history.They're in one of my Photobucket albums (on page 3), so please help yourself:
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/s7paul/Goo...
Unfortunately they were taken about 20 years ago on a 35mm compact camera, so the quality isn't great.
I'll try scanning them in again in higher resolution to see if I can raise the quality a bit.
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/s7paul/Goo...
Unfortunately they were taken about 20 years ago on a 35mm compact camera, so the quality isn't great.
I'll try scanning them in again in higher resolution to see if I can raise the quality a bit.
Edited by S7Paul on Saturday 5th March 10:04
Exactly happened to me too. It was in Lamborghini UK in Reading towards the end of 1997. It is where I too sat in my first ever Lambo.....and ended up buying it! Two days later I flew back to HK and didn't see the car again for 18 months with the good chaps in Reading looking after it for me. The salesman was Nigel Bowen-Easley, he left shortly after I bought the car and set up a dealership in Monaco. Not sure if he is still there or not?
Emblem cars have said the car should be ready Monday after valeting. It looks a million dollars with its refurbished wheels and cosmetic works. Role on some Lambo events so I can join them........
Emblem cars have said the car should be ready Monday after valeting. It looks a million dollars with its refurbished wheels and cosmetic works. Role on some Lambo events so I can join them........
rdbrooksie said:
There is a yellow Countach for sale on PH Classifieds. Whilst I have emailed the owner some questions, anyone know anything about it? May be tempted if it is a genuine good car........
funnily enough I called the seller yesterday on it - a nice chapit will need £££'s spent on it but to be fair to the seller this is reflected in the price
he bought it in 1995 but has only had 3 services since - one in 1995, 1996 and the last in 2007
has basically hardly been used as only done 3000 miles in his ownership and will need a full recommissioning in my opinion
rdbrooksie said:
There is a yellow Countach for sale on PH Classifieds. Whilst I have emailed the owner some questions, anyone know anything about it? May be tempted if it is a genuine good car........
there was another PH thread a while ago where some people discussed the asking price and colour of that 5000S.I'd say that the price is as it should be for a good 5000S at the moment and also note that the colours are just period-perfect great
In that other thread, far too many people were insisting they would repaint the car red
because they have obviously had their minds warped by the likes of Jemimah Klaxxon and so believe that all Italian cars should be red. I blame too much media exposure over the last forty+ years years and too many years of watching old TG programmes again and again and again and again and again
There are a few Countach for sale at the moment that have jumped on the bandwagon of the original LP400 and 88.5 spec. rhd QV, price-wise but which have nothing like the provenance or quality of the original Countach or that rarest of QVs or, in the instance of one car, nothing like the integrity of any Lamborghini that hasn't been crashed but had been well cared for and properly used over the years.
The owner of that yellow 5000S is, apparently, very tall, so he struggles to fit in the car as well as he might if he were shorter - can't say I remember him being that tall really but I do remember the car!!
Hi, thanks for the reply. I actually like the colour......then again like my Anniversary, people ask me why I chose Green. Its unusual and if its the original colour, then why change it? Hopefully the owner will reply to my email so that it can help me decide whether to go look at it.
Wife has said she doesn't like the colour, but then she did say the same about the Anniversary (and the Aston, which is also Green!) but now she likes them both.
Only worry is the availability of parts, particularly tyres which seem impossible to get.
Wife has said she doesn't like the colour, but then she did say the same about the Anniversary (and the Aston, which is also Green!) but now she likes them both.
Only worry is the availability of parts, particularly tyres which seem impossible to get.
... Yokohama would make another set of tyres for any post-LP400 Countach, whoever you are, if you can get another 999 people interested in having them made and who would guarantee to buy them ...
Pirelli do make them sometimes but they have to be blackmailed or bullied or threatened with something to get them to do it - Craig knows that it usually involves making threats with incendiary devices and / or delivering boxes full of diamonds dripping with the blood of Naomi Campbell.
Michelin do make a modern-compound, original pattern XWX as fitted to the first Countach and many other cars from the Seventies - which might be the key here. Longstones (and others, I'm sure) bullied Michelin to do the XWX thing and also got Pirelli to do a similar trick in making sixties-spec Cinturatos again. Perhaps they could do something long-term - it's not that small a market, surely?
yes unfortunately Pirelli are not interested in the classic tyre scene unlike Michelin - if only they remade the P7!
I managed to get some P Zero fronts for the QV recently - they came from Turkey where Pirelli have a plant apparently
another option is the Micheline TB15 tyre - this would be my tyre of choice if I had to replace the rears
I managed to get some P Zero fronts for the QV recently - they came from Turkey where Pirelli have a plant apparently
another option is the Micheline TB15 tyre - this would be my tyre of choice if I had to replace the rears
rubystone said:
Interesting, which car?....
Good to hear someone else say that a lot of the cars out there are overpriced.
... erm, I value my baggy ol' skin and have very brittle bones so, no names and no pack drill, OK? ...Good to hear someone else say that a lot of the cars out there are overpriced.
A few years ago the magazines persisted in listing most Lamborghini values in a way that did not respect the true market value of the cars as they were being traded at that time both here in the UK and, crucially, in Europe and the USA.
Certainly, most Lamborghinis in the UK at that time were either selling very slowly because of the narrowness of the UK market or because they were being overpriced on the off-chance of attracting a buyer in California or Florida or, errrr, Germany.
In particular, the rarest Lamborghinis were dramatically undervalued in the media so, LCUK's main press contact was asked by a few magazines to verify the insistence of one QV owner's belief that his car was worth some 180% of one magazines valuation based on the amount he actually paid for the car...
One magazine in particular agreed to reformat all Lamborghini values based on discussion with the club, discussion with some trade elements in the UK and their need to feature older Lamborghinis more often than previously.
Some owners of some cars took that as the time to grossly overvalue their cars, appear to be selling them or, in one instance, generate a good ol' fashioned PH argument about the relative merits of different specifications of Countach.
One or two of the trade elements that were not contacted have since been attempting to load the values of some of the Lamborghini cars they have for sale. In some instances, this loading has been done in what can only be described as a parody of good practice which will not be good for anybody but then, these people only need one or two eyes-wide-shut buyers to fall into their net!
The chap who had the (slightly) overpriced QV went on to sell it overseas for what I presume was a healthy profit and you're reading the words of the club's (ex-) press contact who got the magazines to list Lamborghini values higher than they once were.
rdbrooksie said:
Exactly happened to me too. It was in Lamborghini UK in Reading towards the end of 1997. It is where I too sat in my first ever Lambo.....and ended up buying it! Two days later I flew back to HK and didn't see the car again for 18 months with the good chaps in Reading looking after it for me. The salesman was Nigel Bowen-Easley, he left shortly after I bought the car and set up a dealership in Monaco. Not sure if he is still there or not?
Emblem cars have said the car should be ready Monday after valeting. It looks a million dollars with its refurbished wheels and cosmetic works. Role on some Lambo events so I can join them........
ve Emblem cars have said the car should be ready Monday after valeting. It looks a million dollars with its refurbished wheels and cosmetic works. Role on some Lambo events so I can join them........
I bought my Diablo from them at about that time. I think I even have a copy of the advert for this car. I was also offered the car privately. I seem to recall that at was around the south coast and either the car or the owner went abroad for a while. Did it also have gold bolts on the wheels?
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I bought my Diablo from them at about that time. I think I even have a copy of the advert for this car. I was also offered the car privately. I seem to recall that at was around the south coast and either the car or the owner went abroad for a while. Did it also have gold bolts on the wheels?
Yup, it had gold bolts and gold wheel rims...... I went back to HK, the Lambo stayed in UK for 18 months or so, I then shipped it to HK. Now back in UK undergoing work / servicing at Emblem Car in Bournemouth. I bought my Diablo from them at about that time. I think I even have a copy of the advert for this car. I was also offered the car privately. I seem to recall that at was around the south coast and either the car or the owner went abroad for a while. Did it also have gold bolts on the wheels?
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