For those of us born in the 1970s, it?s nigh impossible to imagine a world without the Lamborghini Countach in it. And as much as some of us might preen and trot out our purist credentials, saying we prefer Marcello Gandini?s unmolested LP400 shape, the Countach we all fell in love with was the beflared Lambo with the phone-dial wheels. Whether that was the 400S, the Walter Wolf 500S that came disassembled in the Tamiya box, or the later 5000 Quattrovalvole, it matters not; the car’s visuals didn?t change radically until the unfortunate-looking 25th Anniversary model, which added a grip of Testarossa-style strakes to aid in cooling. They also had the unfortunate side effect of making Lamborghini look like it was cribbing from Ferrari, and the Countach had always been anything but a Ferrari. So how does one properly bring a body style from the late ?70s into the late ?80s" Simple. Add gold. In the 1980s, silver-toned metallic finishes were out. Even the lowly Chevrolet Celebrity got up on the chrome-delete tip with the Eurosport variant. Gold, however, was way in. One might recall that our president first tasted national fame during the decade, and if you really wanted a Countach to pair correctly with your Omega Constellation Manhattan, well, it turns out Sant?Agata was willing to make that happen.

This, friends, is the shockingly rad result. It?s a 1987 5000 QV in white over white, with 14-karat-gold accents. One of two reportedly produced by the factory, this...