Lain Tyrrell's Best Yet, Ferruccio's Personal Countach

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Just been watching Iain's best video yet, 27 minutes of sheer pleasure,
Sure i had a tear in my eye,

Edited by rat rod on Friday 6th November 22:51

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Van Dessel said:

Help me: Iain or Lain? Or is my keyboard broken?

Sorry it's me not your keyboard ,I'm deslexic, thanks for pointing it out.

Tried to amend it but won't let me.

Edited by rat rod on Friday 6th November 22:26

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Larry5.2 said:

If it is that valuable a car, you'd think he would have checked it over first, changed all the fluids and maybe replaced the hoses before subjecting it to a road test...
Maybe he did, but pretended to diagnose it on the road to show how clever he is.

He probably did but he's got to make a video out of it,he's a You Tuber after all if in a smaller way to the regular shouty,shouty ones.
Don't think Iain has anything to prove because he is clever with more knowledge than most of us will ever have whether it be Super Cars or generally on just about any prestige car you care to mention,

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Ferruccio said:

That really made me smile.
We should have a white Countach get together!?

Your a greedy man Ferruccio,hording all those Lamborghini's away, don't know how you sleep at night.
Yes she's lovely especially with the silver wheels,
Iain should have given you a call, imagine 3 white Countach's on film.

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Van Dessel said:

rat rod said:

Sorry it's me not your keyboard ,I'm deslexic, thanks for pointing it out.

Tried to amend it but won't let me.

Edited by rat rod on Friday 6th November 22:26

Ah sorry, didn't know that. Didn't mean to pick on you. Not being born in the UK I thought maybe Iain and Lain were interchangeable.

He is very watchable in a way Clarkson and Harris/Flintoff simply are not. I'm early 40s and enjoy insights rather than hype & hyperbole...

No problem thanks ,Born deslexic so have had to live with it ,worse time when at school but gives you thick skin as you get older, The computer
has helped enormously but i always get the I and the L mixed up.

Iain video's are easy going to watch unlike the current younger You Tuber's ,I watch most of them sometimes through gritted teeth if the subject is of some interest to me .
Always look forward to Iain's video's but it's a shame he only post's only around one a month ,two would be nice but he does look a busy fellow.

Don't watch Top Gear any more,it's got to silly and not for proper car guys/girls any more, although i do like Chris Harris, a proper car nut
Should have Chris, Harry Metcalfe and Nicky Butler-Henderson or maybe Tiff to take over the show.

Edited by rat rod on Saturday 7th November 18:26

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HIS LM said:

Great story very entertaining thanks for the share

Would love to know more about the Italian job Miura find.

You've probably seen it already but Iain has a video on that to ,i think 2 of his best yet video's,
It's titled "The Italian Job Lamborghini Miura -Unearthing a Icon"

Don't know how to link it but sure someone on here will.

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cgt2 said:

This starts Thursday, looks more promising than the usual dross, Tiff presenting;

Lovecars: On the Road

Thursday, 8pm GMT
@ITV4
@ITVmotorsport


http://itv.com/hub/itv4

Looking forward to it, Only problem is that it clashes with Emmerdale Thanks for posting

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HIS LM said:

Why did it take Lamborghini 4 years to confirm it was the real deal ?

Haven't a clue,All depends in which period the factory were requested to confirm it was the Miura that was used in the film as they were always in financial turmoil with ownership changing hands on a regular basis until Audi took over.
I could only imagine the factory would have very little interest while this was going on. ,

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Ferruccio said:

And their old records are sketchy.

Sketchy,You are not kidding,tried to find out how many MK 3 400 S were made ,had to find out from another sourse, still don't know how
many R.H.D ones there are, not many i believe.
Less interesting but more recent i asked how many R.H.D manual Gallardo's were built but they were unable to tell me that either, so things
haven't changed much.

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carspath said:

Incredible isn’t it ...... all this palaver about a car that featured in a film , and the has been restored / changed/ altered / repainted such that even the experts have to debate amongst themselves about its true identity and provenance .

Yet , a car which is less famous but also unrestored , carries so much more history of the model and the marque within it , yet will be , relatively speaking , overlooked.

I am determined to do absolutely no cosmetic restoration on Chassis 12399 unless really necessary .Ditto mechanical work only as per factory schedule o for essential preservation of the drivetrain .

The chap who added power steering to his Countach should have just bought the earliest possible Diablo featuring power steering rather than butchering the life blood of an icon .

Ditto over restoring cars to Pebble Beach standards .

Far better , in my opinion , to drive the cars on carefully chosen occasions , and then let them show their scars with pride . Patina .

Ye,Can't be many left like yours, what's that saying,"It can only be original once" and all that, I think more enjoyable as well ,if a stone flicked up by the car/truck in front although unwanted won't be the end of the world ,just add them to the other chips accumulated through the
years,

Unless concours is your thing or preparing the car for resale is best left alone,I would rather buy a car with chips and marks
than fresh paint work as at least you can see what you are getting, Your decision if you want to paint it after.
There's even a survivor category at Pebble Beach now,