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It’s secure to say that some automobiles simply began out as dream automobiles, automobiles that adorned many bed room partitions on large posters, often supercars and unique automotive artwork you simply don’t see on daily basis on the open street (relying on the place you reside naturally), and the Lamborghini Countach is a kind of final motors desires are product of, particularly again within the late Seventies when Lamborghini got here up with an excellent wilder model of their Countach LP400, the very automotive that launched the now-famous ‘Lamborghini doorways’, the upward opening ‘scissor’ doorways which have been used on each V12 flagship from Sant’Agata ever since they first confirmed up on the 1974 Countach LP400.
After 4 years of manufacturing of the Countach LP400, Lamborghini revealed the LP400 S, now adorned with huge fenders, even wider wheels with huge 345mm huge tires from Pirelli on the rear, a deep entrance chin spoiler and as an unofficial choice, the by now well-known rear wing, it didn’t have any aerodynamic function, in truth, it even slowed down the Countach, however many shoppers had it fitted to their Countach anyway, a automotive with an MSRP of US$85,000 again in 1978, today you possibly can nearly add one other zero on the rear as values have sky-rocketed for nearly any mannequin within the Countach vary, with the narrow-body LP400 going effectively into the seven-figure roams these days.
Whereas a Lamborghini Countach is a legendary automotive at this time, again within the late Seventies they weren’t actually sought-after in the USA, a market that was a good distance from Sant’Agata in Italy at the moment, however that was about to vary dramatically … because of a film. Let’s take a more in-depth take a look at chassis quantity 112.1112, a automotive that left the manufacturing facility gates in Sant’Agata in a shocking mixture of Nero over Senape, or black on darkish tan or mild brown in English, initially this particular Raging Bull was delivered to a neighborhood shopper in Italy, however this magnificence would discover her method into the USA on the finish of 1979 or in early 1980 … to turn out to be a film star in because the legendary Cannonball Run Countach.
As a substitute of boring you with the fairly intensive checklist of modifications and updates, like an extra wing on the entrance, not two, not 4, however twelve exhaust pipes on the rear, and fairly modern for 1980, a cellphone within the inside, I’m going to let all of it be defined on this wonderful video from the Hagerty Drivers Basis of their wonderful, 79-minutes documentary discovered on their YouTube channel on this distinctive film automotive, “The Cannonball Run Countach: Supercar Legend” brings you the whole story about this automotive and what it meant for The Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Sprint! Kick-started by famed auto journalist Brock Yates as a rebel towards American pace limits and automotive laws of the Nineteen Seventies:
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