Meet the car that turned its single film role into a million bedroom and dorm room posters: the 1979 Lamborghini Countach LP 400 S from the 1981 movie"The Cannonball Run." Back when Lamborghini was making around 50 cars per year and there were only about five regular TV channels, the only way for most people to see a Lamborghini was in a bookstore.
We recommend checking out the opening scene as an historical artifact if nothing else, a totem that not only hypnotized hordes of young boys into being car enthusiasts , but that inspired the cult of modern amateur Cannonballers continues to this day : Lamborghini celebrated the 45th anniversary of the hero car by reuniting the actresses who drove it for the first time since they worked on the film: Adrienne Barbeau who played Marcie Thatcher, and Tara Buckman who played Jill Rivers. Barbeau said,"I had never realized how successful the movie was until when people started to ask me for my autograph," and that she still gets requests to sign Countach model cars.
According to the automaker, the Nero over Senape coupe left the lines in Sant'Agata for a dealership in Rome, where it got put on a boat for a buyer in Florida. Cannonball director Hal Needham apparently knew the buyer, which is how the Countach ended up being borrowed for the film.
The original buyer left the coupe in movie spec, minus the phone and fake gauges. Florida resident Jeff Ippoliti said he saw the car in 2007, and after 18 months of negotiations, bought it in 2009. While he's owned it, the Library of Congress added the Countach to the National Historic Vehicle Register in 2021 for the movie's 40th anniversary, the 30th car to earn such recognition.
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