A lot has been written about the Countach SS, a Lamborghini with a removable roof section making it the only available ‘convertible’ Raging Bull in the Eighties that was built by Al Mardikian, so it wasn’t a factory built car to be honest, but it still looked really amazing anyway, do note that the factory…
During the Eighties we had all kinds of tuners that created bespoke cars for wealthy customers, mostly adding massively wide extensions, deep front spoilers, big rear wings, and the widest wheels and tires available and then we had the Lamborghini Countach S, which came with wheel arch extensions straight from the factory, rolling on 345mm…
The Lamborghini you can admire on this page started life as a regular Countach QuattroValvole during the Eighties, when it was delivered to her lucky owner … however later on this Bull was modified into a very special looking, totally custom Countach I encountered during a Lamborghini Meeting in Germany. Not much of the original…
While Automobili Lamborghini SpA had their new Diablo on their stand during the 1991 Geneva Auto Show a tuner from Japan, Art & Tech, unveiled something really different in Switzerland … the Sogna, intended to become a limited edition production model, the Art & Tech Sogna boasted some very round styling and was in fact…
This bright red Lamborghini Countach Quattrovalvole was sold back in 1986 by Sterca in Belgium, however later on chassis number GLA12026 ended up in the hands of a Dutch enthusiast … along the way this V12 Bull received some transformations. From the front this Lamborghini might look like any other factory original Quattrovalvole finished in…
The Lamborghini Countach has entered the automotive history as a true classic by now, being built until 1989 in various evolutions from the classic, narrow body LP400 model over the wild looking LP400 S, LP500 S and finally Quattrovalvole and 25th Anniversary edition … the Countach was the model that introduced the by now trademark…
On the 1971 Geneva Auto Show Lamborghini introduced the mind-blowing Countach, the full denomination was LP 500 Countach, where the LP stood for Longitudinale Posteriore 5000 cc, and the 5-Liter engine was put longitudinally in the back. This new 5-Liter engine, which was built using a lot of magnesium even for the gearbox and differential,…
The Lamborghini Countach became a legend in its own time, but Automobili Lamborghini took this masterpiece one-step further. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Automobili Lamborghini SpA they designed and built what would become the ultimate Countach. This ‘celebration’ model was intended to be sold in limited numbers only, but it turned out…
The first ‘new’ Countach was the LP500S; Ferrari had unveiled their Boxer, which was faster than the Countach LP400S, so Lamborghini had to do something. They tried a turbo-charged version of the 4.0-Liter engine, but because of cooling problems, this project as abandoned in an early stage. Another option was tried out, but in the…
Paolo Stanzani was asked to prepare two special cars in 1976, with engine revisions up to 400 Bhp, and using the then new Pirelli P7 tires. The first car (nr.188) was finished in a bright red, with a black interior and was delivered to an Italian customer, but the second, finished in a brilliant Bugatti…
A lot of work still had to be done before the Countach could go into even limited production. The show car was only a prototype and the engine that was installed into it blew up on the first tests, the car could be saved but the engine needed too much work to be made reliable…
Max Bobnar, an authorized Automobili Lamborghini SpA dealer for Switzerland had his personal Countach LP5000 S modified by Franz Albert, an Austria based engineer who installed two small turbo’s on the 5.0 Liter V-12 engine. These turbo pumped up the horsepower to a healthy 520 Bhp at 6500 rpm, with this engine installed the Countach…
