2023-12-05 06:30:35
Do you want a Lamborghini Countach? That’s good, a “25th Anniversary” will be the highlight of the RM Sotheby’s sale in New York on December 8. And not just any one: the one that was used in the filming of Loup de Wall StreetScorcese’s 2013 film.
Or more precisely one of the two used by the production to convey (as best it can…) Leonardo di Caprio in the role of the trader-fraud Jordan Belfort. Enough to add a line of choice to the pedigree of the car, estimated between 1.5 and 2 million dollars.
It didn’t really need it: only 657 examples of this 25th Anniversary rolled off the line between 1988 and 1990 to end the long career of the Countach, which began in 1974. Its style is certainly less pure than on the first 100% Gandini , but this loaded body kit is the work of a certain Horacio Pagani, in the wake of his Countach Evoluzione prototype, so… Too bad all the same for the ignoble American bumper at the front.
To complete the Eighties atmosphere, know that this example is also one of the twelve American Countach 25th Anniversary painted in full white. Don’t forget Queen, Michael Jackson and Toto on the playlist you have recorded on your audio cassette, even if the 455 hp 4.7 liter V12 is reputed to be sufficient in itself (and the car radio does not seem not original).
Apart from its fifteen minutes of fame in front of Scorcese’s lens and under Leo’s butt, this Countach spent most of its existence cruising along the East Coast of the United States. And don’t worry, it’s the other one (and not a replica, sniff) that was used for the unbearable scene where Belfort takes the wheel in the middle of a bad trip. Knowing that the real Jordan Belfort has since confided that it was a Mercedes that he had massacred, and not a Countach (even if he did own one). Sniff once more.
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