Franco Sbarro, a Swiss based car designer modified a few Countach QV models into his very special Sbarro Special Countach. I have found several replica’s lately, but the real thing does exist. According to the Sbarro Design Studio’s, Franco built only eight cars, a bright red one and a white metallic Countach, both of them…
The German based Ferrari concession holder, Walter Koenig used to transform Ferrari’s Boxer into a real road-ready race car. After he did a few conversions on these Ferrari’s and on some Porsche Turbo’s, he tried something a little different and less extremely restyled, the 1983 Countach LP500 S on this page. The Candy Apple (r)…
Al Burtoni in the United States created a Countach based race car, based on a ‘normal’ Countach QuattroValvole with chassis # 112.1002, this 5.2 Litre engined car could go up to 202 Mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats race track. This speed was partly obtained due to the massive, deep front spoiler added by Mr…
No Lamborghini had ever officially raced under their name, several private parties had entered Lamborghini’s in races, but never with any success though. In 1985, David Jolliffe, the Lamborghini importer in Britain, which was Portman, decided to use a modified Countach LP5000S for racing in Group B, but the Countach wasn’t built in sufficient numbers…
During the 1986 production year, Giulio Alfieri received a new redesign for the legendary Countach. The QuattroValvole was in production, but Ferrari was closing the gap very fast, so Lamborghini had to come with something new. The R&D department at Automobili Lamborghini SpA was urged to modify the Countach to keep it at the top…
This is probably the strangest looking Countach ever, it looks as if it left the factory before it got painted or upholstered, this is the Evoluzione, a mobile test-bed for new ideas. The Evoluzione was designed and built in 1987 under the direction of Horacio Pagani, by the newly-formed ‘Composites Department’, they decided to change…
Concurrent with the introduction of the 5000 QV in 1985, a US specification model was produced by the factory in order to meet United States federal safety and emissions standards. Changes to the American specification models included bulkier and more robust safety bumpers as the vehicle did not meet the American safety crash standards, and…
In early 1976, the Lamborghini factory made two very special Countach LP400’s, one for Walter Wolf, this one is described on another page on this site, but the second they built had chassis nr. 1.120.222. This one was built the same way as the second Walter Wolf special, but didn’t use the 5.0 Liter engine…
This Canadian who owned his own Formula I racing team bought several Lamborghini’s, at on point he even considered to buy the factory completely to save it. His first Countach was a white LP400, a fairly standard model, but Walter Wolf became famous for his ‘special’ Countach, he had three of them made, all equipped…
In 1984, Giulio Alfieri decided to modify the Countach into something new, but not radically different, a kind of transition between the current Countach and its real heir. This car became known as the Restyling prototype, not to be confused with the Countach Evoluzione however. He remedied several disadvantages of the original Countach design, like its…
