Equipment
4,754/375hp, 6×2 45DCOE Weber carburetors, 5-speed, telephone dial wheels, wing, driving lights, built-in Escort radar detector, manuals, tools, invoices.
Condition
Grey market import for first owner Ralph Lauren through Stan Nowak, thoroughly documented from new and only three owners. Not fresh but recently detailed and as good as it can be at its age and 17,413 km. No record of recent major service but appears to have been recently refreshed.
Market commentary
Bidding started at a modest $350K then quickly advanced, selling to a phone bidder at this price. This is a celebrity Countach, however, owned for two years by Ralph Lauren, whose taste in cars is recognized as exceptional. The fact that he owned it for only two years, however, and it has accumulated minimal mileage in his and subsequent owners’ hands suggests it was an opportunistic purchase that appealed less to his high standards than his many other great classic cars. In any event this is a HUGE price for a Countach LP5000S that otherwise, even as well-preserved as this example, would be a quarter-million dollars less without the glittering provenance. It is an expensive Polo pony.