My old Lambo photos from the 90s

[Cindy Larson]

Philup said:

Here's a Miura I shot in 1969 when we were on holiday in Northern Italy. Note the parking ticket.

Amazing car!

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Edited by Cindy Larson on Thursday 15th September 08:25

[P300V8]

lazylobster said:

Amazing pictures. Compare Goodwood to then, to how it is today!
Rob

My father used to take me to Goodwood in the 50's and 60's. Everything was pretty rudimentary back then ...

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[George 500]

Robert W said:

"Lambo's from the 90s" - this neatly includes Diablos.

The first Diablo imported into the UK I'm sure was a red LHD Portman Lamborghini demonstrator.

Then they had two red RHD cars: H789YYM and H790YYM [this being the car on the Alpine stand at all the events].

Then they went through J991 CYR to J996 CYR - missing J994CYR - anyone any ideas? Photos from Portman Lambo in London, Lamborghini Reading and Silverstone Historic Festival.

Robert this is fascinating stuff- sorry for being slightly off topic but do you happen to have any info on what happened after the first batch?

Would love to know what came in later (91/92/93 2WD especially)

[Robert W]

Hi, sorry, no idea. My interest is Countachs, and I only came across the first Diablos in passing,

[snapper seven]

Hi,

Back again, having scanned a fair few more photos from the earliest supercar test days in 87 and 88.
These are pretty much all Countach photos by the way. I had put them all in a separate album when I was a kid so that they were all largely arranged by car.

Apologies for the image quality of some of these. I had an appalling old 110 (I think?) format camera which had a hopelessly small negative size. Anyway, perhaps it all adds to the nostalgia.

Yes this is me below as a Campari ski jacket sporting, Countach obsessed 14 year old.

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[snapper seven]

I love Mike Pullen's series one.

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It's great seeing the P7s on these cars. Sets them off perfectly.

[snapper seven]

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[snapper seven]

Do not adjust your sets. Yes this Countach is peach coloured

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[snapper seven]

US spec injection car. As I have stated on another thread, I think this was a hire car at the time, but may have just been a rumour.

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Always thought my photos never did justice to the pearl white cars. Was a lovely colour, although I recalled if parked next to a non-pearl white car they did look like they were a little dirty.

[snapper seven]

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How eighties! Countach, 911, Cosworth!

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[snapper seven]

Robert - here is a question for you if you are are reading this...

Is Steve Forster's old Countach below, the same one that Vic Sawyer (VFS 141) and Paul Dennis(?) (C416...) owned? I wonder, gven that the car had colour co-ordinated wing mirrors.

Thanks

SS

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[snapper seven]

Ok, here are a few action shots. As I say, never had a decent enough camera, didn't have an SLR at the time, so these shots were tricky and hadn't quite got the panning technique honed.

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Final two - I'm guessing this green Anni is the car that is with, or recernly passed through Amari's hands


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Right so that is 124 pictures just uploaded. Hope that keeps you going for a little bit.

What is to follow?
Well I have some snaps of other Lambos - Espadas and the like - from the Supercar test days and then after that I have plenty more Lambo ones from the 90s Silverstone Historic festivals.
Something for the new year.

Marry Christmas everyone!

Thanks
SS

[P5BNij]

Excellent - really enjoyed looking through those! More Espadas, Urracos, Miuras etc. please...

[Ferruccio]

Good stuff!

[thegreenhell]

I've just dug this out of a box in my parents' loft.



The good news is that there's also an old VCR to play it on, although it hasn't been used for many years. If that goes well the next mission will be to see if my old PC with the TV card works so we can get this thing digitised.

[snapper seven]

Wow, what a fantastic find that video is!!!

I'd love to see that. Hope your plan works.

If not, I have a dvd hard drive recorder which I can hook up to a VHS player and happy to help if push comes to shove.

Cheers
SS

[Jex]

snapper seven said:

Apologies for the image quality of some of these. I had an appalling old 110 (I think?) format camera which had a hopelessly small negative size. Anyway, perhaps it all adds to the nostalgia.

Was one of them really pink - or is that just the way the photo reproduced?
Fantastic set of photos - looking forward to the next installment.

[Craig]

Fantastic photos - thanks for sharing!