Anniversary Countach for £85k !?!?
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Looks a lovely example and remember seeing it at the Lambo anniversary day in Brooklands, not sure what attracted more - the car, the plate or the owners shellsuit!
Thought they were worth £45k rather than £85k - have they appreciated that much or is the seller in cloudcuckooland? (Apologies if seller is a PHer - fire your stylist sir)
Advert goes on about meticulous maintenance but is 2x gaps of 3 years in servcing a worry - especially since one 3 year period included a lot of miles for a Lambo? Or is this now irrelevant given recent regular servicing?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1989-LAMBORGHIN
Thought they were worth £45k rather than £85k - have they appreciated that much or is the seller in cloudcuckooland? (Apologies if seller is a PHer - fire your stylist sir)
Advert goes on about meticulous maintenance but is 2x gaps of 3 years in servcing a worry - especially since one 3 year period included a lot of miles for a Lambo? Or is this now irrelevant given recent regular servicing?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1989-LAMBORGHIN
andysv said:
that's 50k tops, on a good day. hang on i'm just putting my diablo up for 125k were's my ebay account.
Sorry but yours is only worth £45 k. As the advert says "You can run into serious mechanical and financial problems with cars that havent been used properly". Much better to buy one with 40000 km, now that would be worh £125 k
Edited by lsb on Monday 8th January 15:06
I've been keeping my eye on the market as I want to buy a Countach or an early Diablo hopefully this year - depends whether I can sell my other toys first. Anyway, I saw the Countach for £85K and laughed out loud. Yep, £50K maximum, on a good day. He bangs on about being properly cared for and driven. So why the full strip and respray, gearbox rebuild, and partial engine rebuild he mentions. Everything I've read and been told is that the Countach is mechanically very strong if properly driven and maintained. I'd be happy with an Anniversary myself, although I prefer the pre-Anniversary QV. But there are more good Anniversarys out there for sensible money. If I had the budget right now there's a lovely red Anniversary with 11K miles, loads of recent service receipts, superb condition, and a nice history, for £51995. Makes the £85K a real joke. You could buy a good one around £45K with the same mileage, then spend £30K on it and still be quids in.
Adam B said:
1987 QV with rear wing best of all IMO (not the 1987.5 with the side strakes whcih spoil the curves)
actually thought the earlier cars were worth as much if not more than the driven-through-Halfords anniversary jobbies
actually thought the earlier cars were worth as much if not more than the driven-through-Halfords anniversary jobbies
I think a mint 74-78 LP400 would be the most expensive production Countach you could buy today barring limited editions, race cars and cars with special provenance. I'd have one
Edited by t1grm on Monday 8th January 16:20
When the Countach in question was just 'very bloody good indeed' back in 2002, I was asked to drive the car from West Sussex to the Midlands for a Top Gear feature with Jason Dawe, about 2,000,000 school kids and a number of other cars.
A Beeb researcher on the programme had organised the shoot at the primary schools she went to when she was a child. The children at the schools were asked to vote for their favourite car from a choice of a not-to-be-touched-by-them-at-all Ferrari 360, a Zonda S which just frightened the teachers, a Nissan Skyline GTR IV (? I think ?) and a fresh off the line, (possibly early production??) TVR Tuscan S that was driven down from Blackpool for the day - and the much noisier, far older and way-cooler Countach.
The day before, the Countach was suffering from a flat battery due to not having been driven for a while, and just a few minutes before I set off from Hayward's Heath, it's slightly gummy clutch meant it had to be started in gear.
The journey to a hotel near to Stourbridge was reasonable despite the car being unable to provide even a slight warmth to my tiny toes but it was able to do a cheerful (ahem)mph cruise and cause a policeman at Warwick services, (who was fitted with lots of pips on his shoulders), to ask me if he could sit in it, if it was possible, as he'd never seen a Countach close to before and he wasn't bothered at all about how he'd just seen me travelling a 'little swiftly'…
The following morning the car was covered in frost and one of the staff at the hotel I stayed at was only - just - prevented from dumping a pan full of hot water all over the windscreen! Once that potential trauma was avoided, the Countach was as good as gold for the entire day of stop-start filming and being surrounded by squealing and giggling bairns and teachers. It was also able to shrug off a thick coating of kiddy-snot and prove that at least seven or eight under-10's can fit in a Countach, if you squash the smaller ones well down into the footwells. It then went on to belting back down the M40 before spending the best part of 2 hours on the packed-solid west side of the M25 - with no movement above 'normal' position of any temp. gauge at all.
Since then, its gone to the current owner, who has had the car repainted from the glossy black it once was to it's new colour of very-very-very glossy black indeed, has acquired 'that' number plate and also received any of the work that a couple of years of proper use and ownership have required - and I'm almost certain that none of that work has been for mucus or other brat related issues, almost…
So, whilst he's asking a lot for the car, the owner doesn't really need to sell it and is trying to make a point about what he thinks the value of any Countach should be somehow, although whether it's the right thing to do remains to be seen. At any price, it's certainly about the best Countach 25 I've seen/driven, if that's any recommendation…
…and do you really need to ask which car the schoolkids thought was the best that day?
A Beeb researcher on the programme had organised the shoot at the primary schools she went to when she was a child. The children at the schools were asked to vote for their favourite car from a choice of a not-to-be-touched-by-them-at-all Ferrari 360, a Zonda S which just frightened the teachers, a Nissan Skyline GTR IV (? I think ?) and a fresh off the line, (possibly early production??) TVR Tuscan S that was driven down from Blackpool for the day - and the much noisier, far older and way-cooler Countach.
The day before, the Countach was suffering from a flat battery due to not having been driven for a while, and just a few minutes before I set off from Hayward's Heath, it's slightly gummy clutch meant it had to be started in gear.
The journey to a hotel near to Stourbridge was reasonable despite the car being unable to provide even a slight warmth to my tiny toes but it was able to do a cheerful (ahem)mph cruise and cause a policeman at Warwick services, (who was fitted with lots of pips on his shoulders), to ask me if he could sit in it, if it was possible, as he'd never seen a Countach close to before and he wasn't bothered at all about how he'd just seen me travelling a 'little swiftly'…
The following morning the car was covered in frost and one of the staff at the hotel I stayed at was only - just - prevented from dumping a pan full of hot water all over the windscreen! Once that potential trauma was avoided, the Countach was as good as gold for the entire day of stop-start filming and being surrounded by squealing and giggling bairns and teachers. It was also able to shrug off a thick coating of kiddy-snot and prove that at least seven or eight under-10's can fit in a Countach, if you squash the smaller ones well down into the footwells. It then went on to belting back down the M40 before spending the best part of 2 hours on the packed-solid west side of the M25 - with no movement above 'normal' position of any temp. gauge at all.
Since then, its gone to the current owner, who has had the car repainted from the glossy black it once was to it's new colour of very-very-very glossy black indeed, has acquired 'that' number plate and also received any of the work that a couple of years of proper use and ownership have required - and I'm almost certain that none of that work has been for mucus or other brat related issues, almost…
So, whilst he's asking a lot for the car, the owner doesn't really need to sell it and is trying to make a point about what he thinks the value of any Countach should be somehow, although whether it's the right thing to do remains to be seen. At any price, it's certainly about the best Countach 25 I've seen/driven, if that's any recommendation…
…and do you really need to ask which car the schoolkids thought was the best that day?
Having just sold my own Countach Dave, which I don't think was too shabby, I have to say that I think Daniel is asking way too much for that car if he is indeed serious about selling it. I know that Countach prices generally in places like the States and Australia tend to be a bit higher than here in the UK, but I think even those markets would struggle to supply a buyer at £85k.
Dear Lisadell, (!)
I'm sure one day I saw your QV when it had some dusty marks on one of the front wings, so obviously it was only ever going to be worth about £78k… and that small lump of dried road sludge on the rear valence would have plunged that value even lower…
I think DM is just trying to do something for the market - yes, I know, you can get (good!!) Anniversary's for between £45k and £50k and in fact, as you know, you can get a good Countach 5000S for less than that but, the point DM's trying to make is, (I'm sure), that the cars should sell for more than they do so why not at least try and push the Lamborghini market somehow when a sale isn't exactly crucial?
To prove that point, my Jarama is hereby for sale for £39,999 although I KNOW it wouldn't sell for anything close to half that if I was actually selling as it stands but then, hey... cloud cuckoo land is actually quite warm and comforting at this time of year!
I'm sure one day I saw your QV when it had some dusty marks on one of the front wings, so obviously it was only ever going to be worth about £78k… and that small lump of dried road sludge on the rear valence would have plunged that value even lower…
I think DM is just trying to do something for the market - yes, I know, you can get (good!!) Anniversary's for between £45k and £50k and in fact, as you know, you can get a good Countach 5000S for less than that but, the point DM's trying to make is, (I'm sure), that the cars should sell for more than they do so why not at least try and push the Lamborghini market somehow when a sale isn't exactly crucial?
To prove that point, my Jarama is hereby for sale for £39,999 although I KNOW it wouldn't sell for anything close to half that if I was actually selling as it stands but then, hey... cloud cuckoo land is actually quite warm and comforting at this time of year!
thats for the tale XXIIV something, must have been a great drive
so this guy is not so much advertising as informing all buyers/sellers that the are wrong and he will single-handedly push back market forces in a King Canute kinda fashion. His shellsuit is going to get awfully soggy methinks
so this guy is not so much advertising as informing all buyers/sellers that the are wrong and he will single-handedly push back market forces in a King Canute kinda fashion. His shellsuit is going to get awfully soggy methinks
Adam - that ain't no shell suit he wears!! Neither is he entirely as far from anybody using titles like 'King' in front of their day-to-day name as the vast majority of us are and…
…well, yes, that was probably one of the best 'Lambo-days' out I had in'02 and the memory of a little ginger-headed, chubby grrrrrrrrl, (who was eventually seen on the telly!), sitting in the driver's seat of the Countach, gripping the steering wheel and turning to camera and shouting,"THIS CAR ROCKS!!" will be one for the very long-term scrapbook!
…well, yes, that was probably one of the best 'Lambo-days' out I had in'02 and the memory of a little ginger-headed, chubby grrrrrrrrl, (who was eventually seen on the telly!), sitting in the driver's seat of the Countach, gripping the steering wheel and turning to camera and shouting,"THIS CAR ROCKS!!" will be one for the very long-term scrapbook!
XXVIII said:
Adam - that ain't no shell suit he wears!!
please do explain... Balboni's original racesuit?
XXVIII said:
Neither is he entirely as far from anybody using titles like 'King' in front of their day-to-day name as the vast majority of us are and…
...if it is not a treasonable offence
Adam B said:
please do explain... Balboni's original racesuit?
more like Ghandi's I would have thought...
Adam B said:
...if it is not a treasonable offence
not exactly, more like one requiring transportation to the colonies, I think…
and this is a joke that's already far too thin, like Daniel himself is plus he's one of the good guy's really, whatever his title is and whatever he thinks his Countach might be worth!
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