• Landmark Lamborghini model • First owned by a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family • Resident in Norway since 1987 • Present ownership since 2005 • Maintained to a high standard The legendary Miura was always going to be a hard act to follow, so the extent to which its successor eclipsed the greatest of 1960s supercars came as something of a shock to all.

The sensation of the 1971 Geneva Salon, the Countach was styled, like its predecessor, by Carrozzeria Bertone's Marcello Gandini.

It was nothing less than spectacular, looking like it had been conceived on another planet.

As Motor magazine observed: "few people gazing at the original Bertone Countach at Geneva in 1971 could have regarded it as anything but a 'show' car.

There were those fold-up doors for a start and the space-age cockpit with its abysmal rear visibility not to mention the strange engine/transmission configuration." Happily, Lamborghini disregarded criticism of the car's supposed lack of practicality and the ...