Wall-e wrote: We saw two of them over the summer. For some reason the wife wasn't nearly as excited as I was.

I had the Countach poster as a kid, and I still have a poster of a Diablo (with fantastic cheesy fake lightning background) up in my shop. I may have never seen one IRL, I had no idea they were so small. The in the pic of the one by the Cobra, it seems not a heck of a lot bigger. Is that just odd perspective or are they really that small?

Wall-e wrote:

That is the best one I have seen yet. Even better than this one...

ultraclyde wrote:

Wall-e wrote: We saw two of them over the summer. For some reason the wife wasn't nearly as excited as I was.

I had the Countach poster as a kid, and I still have a poster of a Diablo (with fantastic cheesy fake lightning background) up in my shop. I may have never seen one IRL, I had no idea they were so small. The in the pic of the one by the Cobra, it seems not a heck of a lot bigger. Is that just odd perspective or are they really that small?

Yes. Yes they really are that small. First one I saw in real life was in a Casino as a kid. Up on a turn table around slot machines (apparently some lucky person was really going to hit the jack pot).

Without wing and ground effects, I really don't car that much for the looks.....

To my Eye, there's just something missing with out the ground effects and big Wing. And the wheels make it look dated too. Just my opinion.

Flight Service wrote:

Wall-e wrote:

That is the best one I have seen yet. Even better than this one...

Seriously - no politics in the hotlink thread...seriously

Saw an original Countach at the auto show this year, and for me, Marcello Gandini's masterpiece is best in it's original form. This was 1974 and without concern for safety or aerodynamics, the form is pure. All of the 80's add-ons just detracted from the lines of the original.

The front-end lift at speed must have been incredible, and the lift at the rear was so bad that they had to offer the wing just to keep the wheel in contact with the road! This was a "periscopio" Countach, with an indent in the roof and a periscope providing a view out the rear. Later models just gave up altogether and offered no view out the back.

Which naturally requires an Isdera Imperator linked pic.