The opposite of Reventon airlift delivery: Countach ship-in-a-bottle extraction

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Remember the Reventon delivery that was hoisted down from helicopter airlift? That was pretty cool. Along comes a guy named Ken, a welder, machinist, mechanic and craftsman. He had an ongoing project of fully building a Lamborghini Countach from scratch. It was his basement project.

When it was completed, he had a problem. Fully-built, he had his yard dug out, foundation and basement wall knocked down and car pulled out. Not only is it a neat process to essentially finish a product for a great gearhead, it's also a very nice, accurate, lovingly-made Countach replica.

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Pretty cool if you ask me!!!
 
:lol: That's pretty hilarious, but I guess that the additional expense of having to get the thing out was a price worth paying... what a job on the car :eek:
 
So he opted for the basement for lack of a garage, and went through the effort of digging it out...if I were him I'd pave that slope and put a garage door over that hole. :lol: 👍
 
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So he opted for the basement for lack of a garage, and went through the effort of digging it out...if I were him I'd pave that slope and put a garage door over that hole. :lol: 👍
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Make the garage door like a trap door and you have the Bat cave!
 
Very nice. It reminds me of that thread at honda-tech where a guy built an engine in his basement and couldnt figure out how to get it out when it was done
 
Well done!!! I'm assuming it was his intention all along to dig the car out since it looks far to well done for an idiot :dopey: I can't tell what sort of engine it has though, any guesses?
 
That's awesome, then idiotic, then genius. Honestly, who can't see that far ahead that building a car in your basement is not going to make it up the stairs? Still, it's a good spot for a garage anyway.
 
NICE!

Thats never something I'd be able to do, but major kudos to him and other people who get down to doing things like this in their spare time. They are the true masters of engineering, plain and simple.
 
I want that car... NOW! I always dreamt of building a Countach from scratch using up to date parts. What a great colour scheme too.
 
Building the car was easy, the real work must have been convincing the wife for the home improvement project.

That room looks a lot like mine when I was 12: A veritable shrine to Count Ach of Sant'Agata.

Oh, and was it a Ford 351 or a Chevy 427 as the powerplant?
 
I think it’s a Hillborn-injected small-block Ford for the look of the valve covers, dang what a neat car, it looks pretty sinister. He could have used the turbo from the digger that made the hole and put it in the car.
 
Beautiful replica. He could not have chosen a better color, or rim combination. Gorgeous.




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He made his own Countach, but still didn't try to make it so you can actually see out of it? ;)
 
So this finally hit the online auto media...

100% hand crafted Countach out of aluminum and a space tube frame. All aluminum body formed on a wooden buck using an English wheel. My own design space frame with Corvette hubs and custom A-arms. Mated to a ZF-25 5 speed. S.S. 180 degree headers GT40 design "bundle of snakes" Boss 351 bored stroked to 377 515hp 48 IDA Webbers. One off TransAm BBS rim shells to my own center section wheels. Custom brake package to fit 16" wheels. Fuel cell, twin aluminum sprint car (Howe) radiators. All aluminum interior with leather dash, Momo seats and 5 point harness, on board halon fire bottle. quick release steering wheel. Low to the ground at 2700 lbs. 100% body correct by using a real Countach to measure from. Over 10 years in the making.
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Along with a whole bunch more photos over at Jalopnik.

http://jalopnik.com/5065896/hand+made-lamborghini-built-in-basement-finally-sees-light-of-day
 

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