Please note that this lot will need to be collected from Milan, Italy.

It would be fair to say that Lamborghini caused something akin to an automotive earthquake when it unveiled the production ready Countach LP400 in 1974.

Its impossibly wide wedge shape, cab forward body re-wrote the rules of supercar aesthetics and began a dynasty of design at Lamborghini that would go on to produce the Diablo, Murciélago and Aventador.

The man responsible for the feat was Marcello Gandini of Bertone, who had also masterminded the body its predecessor, the Miura.

However, where the Miura had been curvaceous and perhaps relatively conservative in its appearance, the Countach was outrageous, designed without the constraints of ergonomics or trivial concerns about user friendliness; the finest example of which was perhaps its scissor doors, themselves borrowed from Gandini’s 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo concept car.

‘LP’ or longitudinale posterior was a nod to another design first: unlike the Miura whic...