VCR Report post Posted December 15, 2016 Anyone have any lead on how many (in road-legal condition) are left? Best guesstimate perhaps? Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan-Herbie Report post Posted December 16, 2016 Tough one to estimate.. 2,042 total cars... what do you base loss at? 10%? 20%? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan-Herbie Report post Posted December 16, 2016 http://www.wreckedexotics.com/lamborghini/countach Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VCR Report post Posted December 16, 2016 Tough one to estimate.. 2,042 total cars... what do you base loss at? 10%? 20%? Tough for sure. I am hoping there are experts here who can chime in. Hard to quantify as well. Take for instance the yellow LP400 on the top right hand side from your link, we saw that car got wrecked at the beginning of the Grande Giro. It looks quite bad but it really wasn't too bad; definitely drivable. The owner was an extremely good sport as he continued on and finished the entire journey. So while looking bad, it surely wasn't written off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilio Report post Posted December 16, 2016 VERY hard to tell i think 5-10% lost maximum many wreked ones being rebuilt in last years when values went up expecially Lp400 i think only 5 of 150 LP may be lost so 3% of LP 400 i am sure some more in the later cars also i do believe only 1997/2000 cars built and i am sure SOME were built and rebuilt with different VIN at factory in the 70's and early 80's so already less than 2000 from the start Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Report post Posted December 16, 2016 Tough one to estimate.. 2,042 total cars... what do you base loss at? 10%? 20%? Id guess on the high side of that... *25+ year old car... *Sports car- easily exceeds average drivers abilities. *Lots imported to the US as "grey market" with notorious consequences for reliability and longevity... *Mid engine = higher fire hazard... *serious decline in market value in the late 90s. *Tubular space frame/parts tough to come by- super expensive to fix... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redlambo Report post Posted December 16, 2016 I would imagine that after at 28 years to 43 years of age if you count the very first cars sold in 1974 you could probably count on a 10% total loss. The other question is what percentage of the cars are sitting in a state of disrepair. My guess is that this percentage is probably closer to 15% to 20% of the remaining cars. Based on that, the percentage would be closer to 75% in various conditions of drive ability. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildegroot Report post Posted December 22, 2016 Dayum. If anyone has a wrecked Countach, we might buy it for winter project. How bad does it have to get to be unrepairable? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilio Report post Posted December 22, 2016 Dayum. If anyone has a wrecked Countach, we might buy it for winter project. How bad does it have to get to be unrepairable? I know of one big project in Europe, if you are interested please PM me is a QV not sure if carbed or FI Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinnsella Report post Posted December 22, 2016 The other question is what percentage of the cars are sitting in a state of disrepair. My guess is that this percentage is probably closer to 15% to 20% of the remaining cars. I would think it is less and less as values rise, what didn't make financial sense to repair or restore 10 or 15 years ago does today. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew R. Report post Posted December 24, 2016 My estimate is that 15% have been lost. Sitting is disrepair? Another 15-25%. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
porter Report post Posted December 24, 2016 Good question, wonder why Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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