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Old 10-19-2008, 05:26 PM
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Default Homemade Countach Stuck in Basement

I found this from another forum...

I love this story... seems like an urban myth, but is a legendary true story. I know the guy personally. If you have an early rls Intercooler w/ the aluminum bracket, it was built by Ken!

Ken is a craftsman... an aluminum worker and TIG welder as well as a great machinist. Years ago, he decided to build a Lamborghini Countach from scratch... almost every part was hand fabricated by Ken.

He built the car in his basement, knowing that one day he would need to extract the car from his house. It was, until last week, a ship in a bottle.

Ken hired a contractor to knock out one of the basement walls, excavate a whole bunch of dirt and form a ramp in order to remove the car form its residential womb.

Here are the very first photos of the car in progress and the newly freed car.








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Although its not a real Lamborghini, you got to respect that its all made by one person...
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Wow...that seems like a lot of work and fabrication and personally I think that he deserves a lot more respect for building his own instead of buying one and restoring it or using a fiero bodykit thing. Tell him to enjoy his ride, he deserves it
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Love the color
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I hate replicas, but this time I will make an exception, though the 8 cyl block really p***** me off. Nice job. But please buy the original sin!
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I hate replicas, but this time I will make an exception, though the 8 cyl block really p***** me off. Nice job. But please buy the original sin!
I dont like replicas much either, but I agree that this one is very special...
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The body work and frame on this is phenomenal, but the engine gives it all away. I would hear that sound and expect to see a big muscle car coming around the bend. good work nonetheless.
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Wow, amazing work! Too bad he didn't put a V12 in it though. And now he has a nice new garage door and driveway.
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If I'm not mistaking, we're having two threads on the same subject.
Well, has happened before.
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The work he did needs to be commended, however he did such a good job on the exterior why didn't he do a better job on the interior. And I agree, he should have put in a v12.
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