Today I moved my fourth car outside its garage, and took a photo of it to share with my friends on XWeb.
That's right -- I also own a yellow Lamborghini Countach LP400, with minimal alterations from Gandini's initial design, except that is has the extra air scoops, which I happen to think look cool, too! Without the air scoops the Countach actually looks a bit too plain, if you can believe it. The added air scoops reveal beauty born of necessity -- tastefully added to prevent the V-12 engine from overheating. I bought my Countach used, but in excellent like-new condition from a Japanese seller I met via eBay. (I have bought three of my cars on eBay -- only the '82 X was found via classified-ad instead.) Shipping the LP400 from Japan to California was surprisingly affordable! It's an extremely low-mileage car, and all the doors and hoods work properly, and the headlights pop up and down perfectly, too. The steering wheel moves the wheels perfectly, without any need for power assistance -- a trait it shares with its siblings, my two X1/9's. The only downgrade is the front trunk is not nearly as practical as the front trunk of the X1/9's, being mostly a place to store the spare tire. I guess with tires this fat they couldn't simply hide it behind the passenger anymore. Let me put it this way, I can haul quite a few computer towers in the front trunk of my X1/9's, but not a single one in the front trunk of my Countach. The good news is why would I want to? It's not my daily driver work car, like my '82 X was for a couple of decades, and my 500e is now.
Before I bought the LP400 it was expertly detailed by Kyosho, a Japanese company that specializes in that sort of work. Do I really have to say that my Countach is a 1:12 scale die-cast example? And that its
garage is a beautifully crafted and printed storage box within a sturdy outside shipping box? I hope not. I'm not sure how that would play out if I ever show this thread to a potential girlfriend. Still, I love my little affordable Countach almost as much as my three 1:1 cars!