When the Lamborghini Miura burst onto the scene in 1966, it changed the face of high-performance motoring forever.

While that model gradually evolved through ever more powerful iterations, it was only fitting that its replacement, the Countach, would fully embrace its predecessor’s spirit of revolution.

Clean, crisp and angular, the Marcello Gandini-penned wedge caused a comparable commotion when the curtain first fell at the 1971 Geneva International Motor Show.

By the time drivers and journalists had experienced the Countach’s raw 375-horsepower performance, the torch had truly been passed.

Just like the Miura, the Countach was improved over time, and while the clean lines and purity of design of the ‘Periscopio’ will always hold great appeal to collectors, the LP400 S added a welcome injection of aggression on its debut in 1978.

Hitting the road four years after the LP400, the revised model featured even wider Pirelli rubber housed behind blistered wheel arches, with new suspen...