A 1976 Lamborghini Countach LP400 Periscopio has won Best of Show at the 2026 London Concours. The car took the event's top award on the opening day of the tenth-anniversary edition, held at the Honourable Artillery Company in central London.
The winning example belongs to the earliest production phase of the Countach. The LP400 entered production in 1974 and remained the version closest to Marcello Gandini's original Bertone design. Its Periscopio nickname refers to the distinctive roof channel associated with the rear-view arrangement used on the early cars.
Power comes from a naturally aspirated 3.9-litre V12 producing a quoted 375 bhp, while the organiser lists weight at approximately 1,065 kg. The significance of the LP400 is not simply its specification. Later Countach variants became wider and gained increasingly prominent aerodynamic additions, making the first production version the cleanest expression of the original shape.
The London winner was recently restored by Lamborghini. According to the concours organiser, its current owner continues to use the car on European road trips rather than keeping it solely as a static collection piece.
The field covered a broad range of machinery. Other recognised cars included the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50, Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 and Reventón, an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato Spider, along with reimagined classics and rally cars. The T.50 won the Hypercars class as well as the Chairman's Award.
The LP400's victory is particularly relevant to the collector market because early Countachs preserve the proportions and details of the first production design before the model evolved into the much more extrovert shape most closely associated with the 1980s. A concours award does not change that history, but it reinforces the status of the earliest cars as a distinct and increasingly important part of the Countach story.