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Roll up your jacket sleeves and grab those shoulder pads, as the white Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary from The Wolf of Wall Street could be yours.
No car underscores the lurid excesses of the 1980s ‘decade of decadence’ more than the final iteration of Marcello Gandini’s Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Edition (further styled by Horatio Pagani).
Built to celebrate the Italian marque’s quarter-century in 1988, the overstyled extensions fitted to the once elegant and exotic wedge were a perfect commentary on the period of time when more was best and greed was good.
Perhaps the most famous example of the ‘final’ Countach is the white-on-white example used in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 film, The Wolf of Wall Street, where it is driven by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in a particularly memorable scene.
In the production, two cars were used to cinematically represent the ‘before’ and ‘after’ effects of a night of severe substance abuse, and the pristne ‘before’ example is now being offered for sale. The damaged car, reportedly another genuine Countach, remains in its filmed-state for posterity.
The Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Edition features a 5.2-litre V12 with up to 335kW/700Nm output, depending on market.
Offered for auction by RM Sothbey’s is a 1989 example, one of just 12 ever built in white-on-white (Bianco Polo) for the North American market. This specification features a fuel-injected 309kW version of the V12, as well as the unfortunate ‘energy absorbing’ bumpers required by the US Department of Transport.
The auction release notes the celebrity Countach has an expected price range of $US1,500,000 to $2,000,000 ($AU2.3m to $3,000,000), essentially double the most recent record of $US775,000 or $AU1,1800,000 of a black example with just 248km on the clock sold by RM Sotheby’s in January this year.
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