You are most welcome, sir. I love the Countach stuff and sharing some of what I know.

Another Countach is in my master plan, but it will have to wait a while. I don't want to eat cat food all during my retirement so first things first. That video, the Cannonball Run entro and the 60 Minutes Countach video make it awfully hard to wait though!
I recently read an old road test where Derek Daly went on and on about what a surprisingly good track car it was. Very underrated there as all the buzz was about style back in the day.

Watching the assembly scenes show how hand built the were, and how the door from one likely won't fit another! And look at the birdcage frame shots, can you imagine a body shop and insurance company trying to figure out how to fix one of those?

My 308 might run with one right now, but there is no other car that defines "exotic car" to me better than a lightweight Dallara suspension LP400s with Bravo wheels. I have the exact one picked out, it's chassis #1121068, one of 16 built in the bankrupt year 1978. Minor detail, Fred ain't selling it. Someday, someday.

Hey Dan, THE actual Cannonball Run car is for sale right now. Why don't you add that one to your garage?
Look up the 'tube video of it in action. That would make a great COTM.

This is a fantastic find. Looks to be from 87-88 as the Countach engines are QV down drafts, and some of them have side skirts. Also watch the Muria tach whip past 10K!

The only guy who can understand the audio will be Yuki, but the video is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaipuvONN7I&feature=r...

Actually you are more correct than you know. Chrysler bought Lamborghini in the spring of 1987, therefore, the current Diablo was a Chrysler too! Imagine Lee Iacoca's corduroy jackets being synonomous with the legendary Diablo. Now THAT's some heritage right there, I don't care who ya are...

Happy New Year! Mrs SMS out for a spin today:

I know the current model is gone, thus I called this dead one a "program".

Oh, and is it 2005 already?!? Man time flies.

Bad News for the local NSX guy's..... Honda's Fukui in crisis mode, cuts outlookTOKYO -- Honda President Takeo Fukui shifted into crisis mode today, slashing sales and profit forecasts, delaying plant openings, cutting executive pay and axing the NSX sports car program to rein in costs. Fukui now expects operating profit to tumble 81.1 percent to ¥180.0 billion ($2 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31. The revision came less than two months after an earlier downgrade in which Honda Motor Co. said operating profit would fall 67.3 percent.The U.S. meltdown is largely to blame. Honda now sees North American sales dropping 14.1 percent to 1.59 million units in the fiscal year. It had predicted an 8.4 percent drop. "We had no choice but to take various actions in a very short time," Fukui said at a year-end press conference.

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It's sad to see an enthusiast targeted program get the axe. Cutting development programs might prove to be shortsighted. We shall see.

Pretty nice video:

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Those pics are great. More proof however to not even believe what you "see" these days!

I like the effort you guys put into your photography, it really shows.

Those are really nice photos!