THE COUNTESS A GRAND DAME
Whether it is parked in a shopping mall, a car park, or a service station forecourt, a Lamborghini Countach will always draw onlookers in a way that even other Lambos can’t match. Inevitably, cell phones will appear and photographs will be taken. The car has been on bedroom walls since its inception in the early ’70s, imprinting those timeless lines on more than one generation of car fans. It was produced for almost two decades, with just over 2000 examples leaving the factory. Reliability, comfort, and ease of use — or rather, the absence of those things — have relegated most of the survivors to either life in a museum or an air-conditioned garage, nurturing the owner’s investment. The disincentive of adding kilometres to the odometer makes these cars a rare sight on the road. Depending on the state of repair, prices for original cars vary from $500K to almost $2M for a good example.
The Lamborghini Countach has been my dream car since the day my
