A Lamborghini Countach transformed into a 2500hp dragster!

Avant-garde, futuristic, excessive, the Lamborghini Countach, revealed as a concept in 1971 and produced from 1974 to 1990, marked an entire generation. An icon whose posters covered many a bedroom in the 1980s. What we have here is an acceleration monster that takes up the look of the Countach LP400, which would then have been teleported into a manga. This delusion is in Australia, driven by Alf Sciacca and now his son Alf Sciacca Junior.

The car took shape at Thunder Race Cars in 2001, before Alf Senior purchased it in 2003. Originally painted in a devilish shade of black, the car received a visual touch-up of sorts, emerging in a typical '80s shade of white, like Miami Vice's Testarossa. Ella was later spotted in an orange hue that fits in well with the Lamborghini current.

"We bought the car in 2003," explains the father, who came to Australia from Sicily in the late 60's. "There's nothing Italian about the car today. In fact, the only thing Italian about it is me." And yes, as you might expect, in Dragster, it's not an atmospheric 4-liter Lamborghini V12 that's inside. But as Alf Sciacca explains, it's not an original Countach that's been stripped down and "desecrated", but a real Dragster in the "Supercharged outlaws" class, purpose-built with a tubular chassis and fiberglass body. 

The source of its sheer madness is a Sainty-built 500CI OHC V8 (Australia's acknowledged Top Fuel engine specialist) sitting up front, a recessed engine whose kick is provided by a massive Whipple supercharger, which would make the one in Mad Max's Falcon Interceptor look like a pocket hairdryer." The Whipple charger is actually the largest commercially available, and it produces 50 pounds of boost the moment you hit the gas. The word wild doesn't even begin to describe it." This diabolical combination delivers up to 2,500 hp, yet is powerful enough to record some very impressive runs. Alf Sciacca Junior set a personal best in the 400-meter standing start of 6.74 seconds at 329 km/h, a fraction slower than his father's 6.66 at 345 km/h.