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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 04:36 PM
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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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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 04:42 PM
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how the...? thats insane.

looks like he made himself a new little garage too
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 04:52 PM
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That's most excellent!!!
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by bkr300
how the...? thats insane.

looks like he made himself a new little garage too
I was thinking that myself. Pave that driveway, put a garage door in place of the wall, and put a drain in front and he'd have a perfect garage for that beautiful work of art he just built
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 05:06 PM
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holy crap.. he must be super skilled
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 05:07 PM
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That is the most amazing story!

He's clearly very talented and the man knows how to keep his eye on his goals.. Totally Awesome!!

So... who got the first drive?
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 05:36 PM
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Amazing work
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 05:58 PM
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wow
thats a lot of passion to knock down some walls of your house to get this out

so he painted the car in his basement too?
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 06:05 PM
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that is amazing great story, wonder how long it took him to built it
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 06:22 PM
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WHAT THE ****?
That is simply amazing. nothing more to say here, I still cant belive it.
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 06:58 PM
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that guy must be some kind of genius. did he paint the car in that little basement? until i saw the painted pics i thought it was a ugly replica.
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 07:03 PM
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how do you even get all the info to replicate it correctly?
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 07:03 PM
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what an amazing job.

i have to say the Countach is one of my favorite lamborhini's of all time
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 07:18 PM
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That's awesome!!!
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Old Oct 19, 2008 | 07:19 PM
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my ultimate dream car. does the guy have a web site or is he gonna build more to sell?
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