One of the greatest parts about modern automotive culture is that the internet allows everyone everywhere to share their passion projects. The gearhead community has definitely grown a ton since The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift stunned the world with an intro to Japanese tuning and modding. One YouTube channel that has done a solid job exploring international car culture is CB Media, where host Chad Bee shares his wild discoveries largely to do with vehicles throughout Southeast Asia. Last week, Bee shared an inside look at a fleet of Audi R8 racers, while the week before that included a glimpse of some wild and muddy tractor racing. Now, Bee's latest clip features a fun twin-turbo Lamborghini Countach done up in Marlboro livery—but that radical exterior hides a Hyundai secret beneath the skin.
Italy Meets Asia
The car itself is owned by Beam, whom Bee introduces as an actor and television host in Thailand. From the outside, the "Lambo" certainly looks the part of a Countach—albeit without the famously ugly impact bumpers that grace the front and rear end of many examples here in the States.
Big Time Mods
At the rear, dual air intakes feeding a pair of snails suggests that someone was actually bold enough to twin-turbocharge the Countach's high-maintenance, mid-mounted V12. But Beam isn't trying to fool anyone, really, since this Countach is V8-powered and isn't a Countach at all. The exterior and engine are mounted on a front-wheel-drive Hyundai chassis, which has been welded and stretched to house the twin-turbo V8.
Power And Performance
The engine of choice was a Toyota UZ, which powered the Lexus LS400 here in the US. But the build doesn't stop there, with a Subaru stick shift routing power to the rear wheels and a suspension system donated by an R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R. That suspension suffered some damage in the first go-round for Beam and Bee in this wild car—watch the video to see how it fared against a (not even very large) speed bump.
Sources: youtube.com and drifted.com.