1986 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 Quattrovalvole

1986 Lamborghini Countach QV

  • Serial Number

    ZA9CA05A4GLA12987

  • Paint Color

    Red

  • Engine

    5.2L V12

  • Interior Color

    Tan Leather

  • Transmission

    5-Speed Manual

  • Mileage

    58,500 KM

  • Price

    $

    SOLD

At the 1966 Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini permanently altered the trajectory of the automobile by introducing what is widely agreed to be the first supercar ever: the Miura. Its technical specification was impossibly advanced and its styling was just as innovative. Low slung, achingly beautiful, and outrageously fast, the Miura showed what Automobili Lamborghini, then just three years old, was capable of.

When it came time to replace the Miura, Lamborghini was faced with a difficult question: how do you follow up such an impactful car? Somehow they managed to do so; the Miura’s replacement, the Countach, showed that lightning really can strike twice. Although the Countach was designed by the same man that designed the Miura, Bertone’s Marcello Gandini, it looked like it had come not just from another designer, but a different planet. Where the Miura was all curves, the Countach was concept car angular. 

The designs of both cars were hugely impactful, and this was backed up by the technical innovation that laid beneath the skin. The mid-engined layout was barely ten years old in the racing car world and as a result, the pace of development was high and the best practices for packaging a mid-mounted powertrain were still emerging. Thus, both cars used unconventional layouts: the Miura a transverse V12 with gearbox behind the engine, and the Countach a longitudinal arrangement with the gearbox mounted ahead of the engine.

The Countach appeared in concept form at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1971. Like the Miura before it, it seemed too outlandish to build as a production car, but by 1974, Lamborghini had finished cars rolling out of its factory. These early cars were simple wedges, devoid of spoilers, wings, or fender flares and delivered on the shocking looks of the 1971 concept car with very few changes. 

Meanwhile, on the corporate front, all was not well at Lamborghini. Just 11 years after founding the car company that bore his name, Ferruccio Lamborghini had sold all his shares. The company lurched from one financial crisis to another and passed through the hands of three more owners by the time the 1980s had ended. Fortunately, one of those owners was the Mimran brothers. The French businessmen were competent and enthusiastic, investing in product just in time for Lamborghini to field a perfectly outrageous model line during the conspicuous consumption craze of the 1980s. The centerpiece of this was of course the Countach, which despite appearing in 1971, was just right for the outlandish tastes of the 1980s with its new flared, bespoilered looks.

The 3.9 liter engine of the first Countaches gave way to a 4.8 liter engine in 1983, and for 1985, displacement grew to 5.2 liters in conjunction with the installation of four valve heads. This was doubtless inspired by Ferrari’s switch to four valve heads shortly before, and in both cases the cars gained the Quattrovalvole moniker. Power grew to more than 400hp, representing the final development of the Countach power plant.

This particular Quattrovalvole is a US specification fuel-injected example which has received a comprehensive restoration to extremely high standards. Part of a significant collection of Italian supercars, every aspect of the car was renewed, both mechanically and cosmetically.

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