A rare Lamborghini Countach LP500S once owned by Quiet Riot guitarist Carlos Cavazo is being offered for sale by Gooding & Company for $785,000.
has been unearthed from a storage facility where it had been sitting for two decades.
The 1982 Countach LP500S is billed as the first example of the new model and was showcased at the Geneva Motor Show that year.The LP500S is an update of the mid-engine Countach that added a new 4.8-liter V12 engine, fender flares and other body updates that made it an icon of the 1980s.The show car was purchased in Italy and spent its first few years in Germany before being sent to the United States in 1985.and federalized with the installation of a BMW fuel injection system.
It had been disassembled shortly before that for a restoration, but the work never got done, so it was put back together and sold to its current owner.The car has 41,000 miles on the odometer and is now beingThe interior shows more than four decades of wear and fading. It's largely original, except for the carburetors that were replaced with the fuel injection and were lost along the way, and comes with its factory tool kit.
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