00:00I was a kid when the movie came out, and I saw it, and especially that first four minutes of that car on the screen,
00:04it was just amazing to me, and it was just so futuristic.
00:08I mean, even now, today, nearly 50 years later, it still looks amazing. It still looks incredible.
00:14The sound of the car, and how it looked, and I remember the opening scene where the car was coming at the camera,
00:20and it looked so low and so flat, and so sinister and black.
00:24And then the sound of it. I've loved this car since the very first time I saw it.
00:29And, I mean, it's a 1979 Lamborghini, so it's an older car.
00:33It doesn't have the creature comforts that you would, say, of a new car, or even a new Lamborghini.
00:37But it has all that raw power and sound to it, and it is an incredible experience.
00:43It's not just driving a car. It's a whole experience with this car.
00:47Well, to me, it's always been an important car.
00:49And I think everybody in my age group had a picture of the Countach, a poster of the Countach, on their wall growing up.
00:57So, it's iconic. And the car was inducted as the 30th car in history onto the National Historic Vehicle Registry.
01:04So, what that means is that Congress of the United States has determined or deemed that this car is important to American history.
01:11So, one of 30.
01:13And I think that says it all about how important this car is to American culture.
01:18And, you know, what it meant to a whole generation of people.
01:21I never get used to owning it. I still walk into my garage after nearly two decades, and I get chills.
01:26Sometimes I just touch the car to prove to myself it's actually real. It's amazing.
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