RE: Time For Coffee? Countach!
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Love the fact that this Countach is a pure, non US spec QV without the hideous side marker lights and dreadful bumpers. How does the owner get around this in California? Good on him for having it how it should be.
Saw a white Countach QV going around Piccadilly Circus late one Friday night in the 80's when I was a teenager and it stopped me in my tracks. The driver had on his tux and bow-tie and his passenger was blonde and coiffed. I imagined what an exotic lifestyle they must have (?) and that image stayed with me.
I still have that copy of Car magazine (in the loft) with the white Countach on the front. I read it time and time again. The same issue, if I remember correctly, also had a feature on the Jalpa (a silver one) and I wanted one of those so badly as well. Can't say that the Gallardo or Murcielago or Aventador has the same allure to me.
I did sit in a red QV at Auto Italia at Brooklands about 14 years ago and I have to say, the thought of driving it filled me with dread. Wouldn't mind having a go though.
Saw a white Countach QV going around Piccadilly Circus late one Friday night in the 80's when I was a teenager and it stopped me in my tracks. The driver had on his tux and bow-tie and his passenger was blonde and coiffed. I imagined what an exotic lifestyle they must have (?) and that image stayed with me.
I still have that copy of Car magazine (in the loft) with the white Countach on the front. I read it time and time again. The same issue, if I remember correctly, also had a feature on the Jalpa (a silver one) and I wanted one of those so badly as well. Can't say that the Gallardo or Murcielago or Aventador has the same allure to me.
I did sit in a red QV at Auto Italia at Brooklands about 14 years ago and I have to say, the thought of driving it filled me with dread. Wouldn't mind having a go though.
Really fantastic video. Too many reviews/features on the Countach just focus on how impractical and generally rubbish it was as a car - as if that's a surprise to anybody - but this chap relishes that. He loves it because of its flaws, not in spite of them. It's the purest form of love, and a really compelling, beautifully-shot video. History will forever remember the Countach and its era of bonkers supercars with fondness, a time when resources were plenty, technology was advancing fast and we hadn't yet become too concerned about scarcity, safety or any of the other modern deities currently turning modern cars into glorified white goods.
A couple more great Countach videos:
http://www.streetfire.net/video/history-of-lamborg...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzcS51jr-g&fea... (From about 1m47s)
http://www.streetfire.net/video/history-of-lamborg...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzcS51jr-g&fea... (From about 1m47s)
legalknievel said:
The guy who posted the Countach vid on vimeo has also done a collection of 1970s Ring crashes at Adenauer Forst. It's pretty awesome. Not one driver is wearing a helmet. Most do a full flip!
Without spoiling the best bit, keep your eyes open at 1:50 for the funniest crash you've ever seen.
http://vimeo.com/50711165
Classic!Without spoiling the best bit, keep your eyes open at 1:50 for the funniest crash you've ever seen.
http://vimeo.com/50711165
UK952 said:
legalknievel said:
The guy who posted the Countach vid on vimeo has also done a collection of 1970s Ring crashes at Adenauer Forst. It's pretty awesome. Not one driver is wearing a helmet. Most do a full flip!
Without spoiling the best bit, keep your eyes open at 1:50 for the funniest crash you've ever seen.
http://vimeo.com/50711165
Classic!Without spoiling the best bit, keep your eyes open at 1:50 for the funniest crash you've ever seen.
http://vimeo.com/50711165
Dave Hedgehog said:
don logan said:
cv01jw said:
y2blade said:
I blame the CannonBall Run films 
Fantastic films, and loved the black countach with the front spoiler. Although my favourite car for some reason was always this:
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)
B17NNS said:
Gruffy said:
Cannonball Run 2 opening sequence
This four minutes of film was where my whole petrolhead fascination began. A red Countach found a home on my wall.
Same here. That noise. This four minutes of film was where my whole petrolhead fascination began. A red Countach found a home on my wall.
robm3 said:
UK952 said:
legalknievel said:
The guy who posted the Countach vid on vimeo has also done a collection of 1970s Ring crashes at Adenauer Forst. It's pretty awesome. Not one driver is wearing a helmet. Most do a full flip!
Without spoiling the best bit, keep your eyes open at 1:50 for the funniest crash you've ever seen.
http://vimeo.com/50711165
Classic!Without spoiling the best bit, keep your eyes open at 1:50 for the funniest crash you've ever seen.
http://vimeo.com/50711165
F40 and Countach would be #1 and #2 in my dream garage.
Yep, I was one of those 80's kid with a massive supercar poster on the bedroom wall.
I can trace my Countach adoration back with these photos of me take when I was around 8 yrs old in Abu Dhabi (UAE) around 1987 ish.
And me in a childrens version! Probably belonged to a Sheikh's kid.
steve
Yep, I was one of those 80's kid with a massive supercar poster on the bedroom wall.
I can trace my Countach adoration back with these photos of me take when I was around 8 yrs old in Abu Dhabi (UAE) around 1987 ish.
And me in a childrens version! Probably belonged to a Sheikh's kid.
steve
I've posted this previously, but fits well with this thread.
P.s. She drives significantly better than I expected after all the negatives you read. Really is fun to hustle on country lanes and through the alps.
P.s. She drives significantly better than I expected after all the negatives you read. Really is fun to hustle on country lanes and through the alps.
NEFOC said:
Hi all, thought I'd add some pics of my girl. We travelled 3500 miles around Europe in summer 2011 visiting Le Mans, Florence, Factories and Alps. Quite a lot of work for the old girl so she is now having a new clutch fitted.
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V8S said:
Another Cannonballer here - I was already into cars but films like that, Smokey and the Bandit and Hooper and all the 80s shows like A-Team, Street Hawk, etc, etc, etc really put the petrol in my veins. I can still hear the sound of that Countach in CB in my head.
P.s. I'm clearly a 70s child as i was well into cannonball run. Actually chose a 308 and dressed as a priest (as per Dean Martin) for Gumball in 05 and chose Burt in 08 with a 79 bandit trans-am in the states. Shows how much of an impression these things have on you as a kid.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff