While I got this topic started already I'm going to break form and ask a question. Did all the countach lp 500s have that hideous wing on the back or can I leave it off?
Edited by mnwildpunk, 04 March 2013 - 12:12 PM.
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21 yrs later! (not as quick as I thought it would be)
Started by mnwildpunk, Mar 04 2013 09:16 AM
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 09:16 AM
I dug out a kit I was sick of looking at I started it 21 yrs ago!!! It never was my style. Lambo Countach. So I thought I'd slap paint on it and qucikly build it. I had to fix a couple things I screwed up all those years ago because I was young and only had testors red tube glue. but I couldn't stop at that. Noooooo I had to fix sinkholes, ejector pin marks and what I thought would be a quick build is now going to be on my workbench with my other projects grrrrrrrrrr. So guys what is the story behind your longest stalled out project?
While I got this topic started already I'm going to break form and ask a question. Did all the countach lp 500s have that hideous wing on the back or can I leave it off?
While I got this topic started already I'm going to break form and ask a question. Did all the countach lp 500s have that hideous wing on the back or can I leave it off?
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 09:21 AM
You can indeed leave it off. It was optional. If I remember right, the wing actually made noise because it was so draggy, aerodynamically, and it made more drag than downforce. More styling than function.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 10:39 AM
Twenty one years?That's still new. In my stash is a Hubley '32 Chevy metal kit that I got for my birthday in 1967.I started to file the pieces and then put the kit away when I realized it was beyond the abilities I had at age thirteen.It's still not done and I don't know when I'll get to it again.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 12:09 PM
Oh good I thought I was going to have the record! Thank you bill once again for the info. Now if I could just find a picture of the underside of the car.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 01:16 PM
I have one from 1982, that i had started to scratch build a "better" front suspension. Discovered that I was in WAY over my head. I take it out every once in a while and think about starting to work on it again, but it ussually goes back in the box to be saved for another day. Maybe some day.......
As far as the Lambo goes, you can have it anyway you want. Its a model, and its yours, do what you want.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 01:30 PM
In my stash is a Hubley '32 Chevy metal kit that I got for my birthday in 1967.I started to file the pieces and then put the kit away when I realized it was beyond the abilities I had at age thirteen.It's still not done and I don't know when I'll get to it again.
Exactly ditto. Except 1974 and Xmas.
