Strange Countach....

[andyh68]

Coys has an '84 Countach for auction in its January sale (http://www.coys.co.uk/auction.php?auctionID=19&itemID=1316) and among the pics on the website is this strange looking one:


Replica? '80s bodykit? Anyone know?

[El Capitano]

Koenig maybe? The kit looks the same but the spoiler is different. Not nice at all in my eyes, I much prefer the very early countach though.



(can anyone tell me how to hotlink pics?! - aha, figured it out, finally after how many years... haha)

Edited by El Capitano on Thursday 29th December 09:44

Edited by El Capitano on Thursday 29th December 09:46

[andyh68]

El Capitano said:

Koenig maybe? The kit looks the same but the spoiler is different. Not nice at all in my eyes, I much prefer the very early countach though.

Thanks - I think you may be right. Not to my taste either....

[AndrewW-G]

There seem to be two cars in the Coys picture section . . . . the one with the 80's kit and another with the standard extended wheel arches.

[cc8s]

AndrewW-G said:

There seem to be two cars in the Coys picture section . . . . the one with the 80's kit and another with the standard extended wheel arches.

Agreed - but there might actually be three cars pictured there.

The first picture has a kit no other picture has and also has no plate bracket on the front:


The second is Italian with silver wheels:


The third, forth and fifth appear to be the same car, with a British plate:




I found a few more adverts for the car in 2010 and it looked like this:




It seems rather daft to put in an image that is not even, as far as we can tell, associated with the car.

[cc8s]

I also think the confusing picture is of a Countach tuned by Sbarro (but I might be wrong):

[paulqv]

The first car pictures is an american car as you can tell from the side reflectors and the rear bumper

Will check it out and let people know if the top car is the same as the others. I recall seeing some pics of this first car before in the US

Not that many which are bodykitted

Paul

[BelfastBoy]

Whatever the provence of the vehicle in question, it's WAY to white for me! Pretty vulgar.

Talking of strange Countaches, what's with the odd front wing on the car in the frankly awesome title sequence for The Cannonball Run?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB6FfaNQ40

Possibly the largest / starriest cast listing ever fails to obscure the poster heaven that is the Countach! Cannonball Run 2 intro even has a white Lambo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDzfrjMdEp0

When I was younger and impressionable, it was stuff like this that made me desire a Countach, and I'm sure I'm not alone!

[AndrewW-G]

BelfastBoy said:

Talking of strange Countaches, what's with the odd front wing on the car in the frankly awesome title sequence for The Cannonball Run?

It was plonked on a few US cars to allow them to pass a minimum height / impact bumper law, I like them in a very retro early 80's way

[paulqv]

It certainly did it for me!!! I bought a white one!I
When I first saw the first film I was torn between Farah Facett_ Majors ( if that is how it spelt) and the car. Luckily I came back to my Italian roots and concluded that cars are more important than women!

Love those opening sequences. There were stories that the cars were replicas with V8 engines etc. Not true. although two cars used in no 2

Paul

[Justices]

Slightly off-topic of the auction car but still Countach related.. not enough pipes I say

[Martin350]

The Cannonball Run Countach also had twelve tail pipes;

[CountachQV85]

andyh68 said:

Coys has an '84 Countach for auction in its January sale (http://www.coys.co.uk/auction.php?auctionID=19&itemID=1316) and among the pics on the website is this strange looking one:


Replica? '80s bodykit? Anyone know?

the 1st picture appears to be a florida car sold or for sale on May 2011 with a changed ordometer.
i beleive it to be ZA9C000500ELA12696 bu8t i would need to see the back for sure. Has a mismatched gold logo

[diablo_pete]

Did anyone stay to see what this went for this lot at autosport? I missed it.

[FunBusMk2]

Bidding went to £100k but not enough so unsold.

[Redwing]

So how much did Eleanor fetch?

[FunBusMk2]

£85k on the hammer, then there is 20% VAT and 15% buyers premium so £114,750 all in.

[Redwing]

Is that all.....I thought a car as famous as that would have fetched much much more!

[FunBusMk2]

Estimate was £75-£100k. Bidding slowed from £75k and was hard work on the auctioneers behalf to get it to £85k. I thought hammer price could easily have gone over six-figures, especially when you consider the international interest it had (one of the phone bidders was in India).

I read somewhere else on here that this Eleanor was one of three. It was the only manual car used in the film and very much a total one-off.

ETA: There is a video on YouTube of the auctioning of Eleanor but is from a distance and the sound quality isn't the best.

Edited by FunBusMk2 on Monday 16th January 22:21