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The Automobile Gallery – The New Lambo Field!
This month’s Steering Column features vehicles from our first CARes for the Community display. Paul and Zoi Belschner, owners of a gorgeous 1987 Lamborghini Countach and Josh and Amber Liesch and their modern missile 2016 Lamborghini Huracan are giving back to our community and giving you a chance to see their incredible automobiles!
Green Bay’s historic Lambeau Field has been home to two of the greatest passers in NFL history for an unprecedented 3 consecutive decades. As improbable and impressive as that is, just an 8-minute jaunt away, our team is hard at work building our own little “Lambo” field at The Automobile Gallery & Event Center. Legends Rodgers and Favre rank among the best in NFL history, but we have two pretty impressive passers of our own on display. In fact, there are few cars on the road that this pair of Lamborghinis can’t pass.
Separated by 29 years, the 199 mph Lamborghini Huracán is as sleek and gazelle-like as a modern Supercar could aspire to be.
In sharp, and I do mean sharp, contrast this 1987 Countach, 1 of just 66 fuel-injected Countachs ever built, looks like a 1980s’ econo box walked into a gym with flabby abs and came out carved up like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson prepping for his next action role. Uncharacteristically conceived in an era of dull design and suffocating EPA restrictions, the Countach grabbed everybody by the eyeballs and wouldn’t let loose. Designer Marcello Gandini defied the flowing lines and sensual curves of rival Ferrari and delivered a loud, proud, and powerful package of 1980s excess.
Scissor doors, shark gills, and a V-12 with the vocal cords of a locomotive were a shock to the senses. All those features made the Countach the first true Superstar among Supercars. Amazingly, only 2,049 Countachs were built during the entire 1974 – 1990 production run. Still, the Countach was everywhere…..but mostly it was on bedroom walls around the world. The Countach’s real competition wasn’t Ferrari, it was Christie Brinkley, Top Gun’s Tom Cruise, and Michael Jordan for wall space supremacy.
Unapologetically uninterested in auto racing, founder Ferruccio Lamborghini remained fixated on fashion not the finish line. How ironic then that a fictional Countach race car from the 1981 box office smash Cannonball Run would become one of the most famous cars in the world and just the 30th car selected for inclusion on the National Historic Vehicle Register at the United States Library of Congress. That honor speaks to just how ground-breaking the Countach was on the world stage.
Perhaps one reason the Lamborghini Countach is so forward thinking is because it is so difficult to go backwards! Backing up is best accomplished by committee. Jets at O’Hare need fewer spotters. The driver literally has to raise the scissor door and hang out of the car while trying to navigate the car into position. To me, that isn’t a flaw, that’s charm. If you’re ever lucky enough to drive a Countach who wants to go in reverse anyway?
The English translation of the Italian word Countach is "astonishment". I think you’ll share that sentiment when you see this automotive jewel in person at "our Lambo Field" at The Automobile Gallery & Event Center!
Have a very Happy Easter!
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