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Lamborghini\u00a0Celebrates\u00a0the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Countach LP 500.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

March 11, 2021, marks 50 years since the showstopping yellow Lamborghini\u00a0Countach\u00a0LP 500 made its debut at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show.\u00a0The exact time was 10 am that the prototype was unveiled within the\u00a0Carrozzeria\u00a0Bertone exhibition space at the show, not Lamborghini’s exhibition space.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The decision to launch the\u00a0Countach\u00a0LP 500 in\u00a0Carrozzeria\u00a0Bertone space was influenced by the fact that the Lamborghini\u2019s stand displayed the House of the Raging Bull’s latest arrival: the Miura SV<\/a>,\u00a0which was\u00a0perfected after being in production now for five years.\u00a0With the dual display, Lamborghini showed their capability in both production and innovation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The launch was so successful that Lamborghini raced against time to transform the futuristic show car into a production car to fulfill customers\u2019 requests.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The\u00a0Countach project\u00a0had an internal code number LP112, where the LP signified \u201cLongitudinale\u00a0Posteriore\u201d (Italian for the rear longitudinal position) of the 12-cylinder engine.\u00a0Ferruccio\u00a0Lamborghini maintained the engine’s position in a desire to preserve the image of the company as\u00a0the vanguard of technology and style following the Miura.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Leading the record-breaking achievement was engineer Paolo\u00a0Stanzani<\/a>\u00a0who had been with the company since 1963. In 1968 Stanzani became the General Manager and Technical Director and was mainly accountable for the\u00a0Countach\u2019s\u00a0mechanical component.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Carrozzeria\u00a0Bertone\u2019s Design Director Marcello Gandini<\/a> styled the beautiful, futuristic, and clean lines of the\u00a0Countach,\u00a0which is still appreciated after 50 years.\u00a0Gandini elected to use scissor doors, which have since distinguished the 12-cylinder models of Lamborghini.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The LP 500 was a very different car than the\u00a0Countach\u00a0that would go into production in 1974. Lamborghini gave it a platform frame instead of a tubular one, and it had a 12-cylinder 4971cc engine which was one of a kind. The engine air intakes were given a shark gill design and had sophisticated electronic instrumentation on the inside.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The origin of the Countach name can be found within the\u00a0dialect of the Piedmont region. Upon its final stages of assembly, Lamborghini decided to hide the car in a agricultural machinery shed on a farm close to\u00a0Grugliasco<\/a> (province of Turin)\u00a0to fend off the possibility of work stopping because of labor unrest.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When a\u00a0farmer \u201cdiscovered\u201d the vehicle, he exclaimed \u201cCountach!\u201d\u00a0in his excitement and amazement. It was\u00a0a word that expressed wonderment\u00a0in the Piedmontese dialect. When Marcello Gandini, who himself was from Piedmont, learned of the fact, he felt that the word had a strong communicative force and convinced\u00a0Ferruccio\u00a0Lamborghini, Nuccio Bertone<\/a>, and Paolo\u00a0Stanzani\u00a0of this.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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After the successful launch of the LP 500 at the Geneva Motor Show, Bob Wallace, Lamborghini\u2019s chief test driver, used the car, which had a more reliable 4-liter engine, for all kinds of road tests.\u00a0At the beginning of 1974, the car was then used for crash tests required for the homologation of the production car, and thereafter the LP 500 was eventually scrapped.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

From 1974-1990, a total of 1,999 Countach’s were built in 5 different\u00a0series. It was a model that influenced an entire generation while providing Lamborghini the ability to survive the most difficult years of the company\u2019s history and enter permanently into the halls of legend.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Lamborghini\u00a0Celebrates\u00a0the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Countach LP 500. 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