Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.

This past October, Ken Imhoff — the guy who spent 17 years building the ultimate Lamborghini Countach replica in his basement — told us he wanted to sell it. Now, it's on eBay, and the bidding just topped $75,000.

Okay, so this Countach owner crashed within yards of running his car at Brooklands, but HEY AT LEAST HE TRIED. Good job. Good effort.

Twenty-two years ago, Ken Imhoff started building a Lamborghini Countach, by hand, in his basement. Seventeen years later he was done, and the world watched as he smashed a hole in his house to get it out.

The Lamborghini Countach is too low, too wild to be built today. For an owner, though, is it too much to live with?

It decorated the walls of a generation car lovers and defined an era of supercar excess. Several decades later the once cutting edge design is certainly dated but is certainly still the stuff of exotic car dreams for many car lovers. Anyone with the means to make their aging supercar dreams a reality would be hard…

Back in the 1980s, there was no symbol of Wall Street excess quite like the Lamborghini Countach. And yet, the 1980s were nothing compared to the excess that would come later. But a fake Lambo at a protest over fake profits? Now that's symbolism.

The golden age of supercars were heady days in the West, where there were actual people who could comprehend and buy them. But what was it like to look at the Ferrari 512 and the Lamborghini Countach in a world of planned economies and Trabant futures? An ongoing project explores the automotive dreams of Communist…

Oh hello, Swedish steel frame-Lamborghini with a Boeing 553 gas turbine converted to jet propulsion. How's it going? Oh, you were at Orsa Speed Weekend? Sorry things didn't work out. We'll be rooting for you next year.

When Marcello Gandini inoculated fantasy spaceship design into cars, he had bigger things to worry about than rear visibility. Like scissor doors. This window looks straight into an air intake. Like we care. It's a Countach! Photo: Axel Griesinger