f40 wreck on oak/49th
 

on oak around 49th i saw a northbound wreck involving a ferrari f40. it was totalled! almost cried.
anyone else know anything about it? happened around 6pm

havent ever seen an F40 in person and the only one i saw was smashed, front corner had some damage and the rear was pretty totalled.

http://www.revscene.net/forums/67340...weekend-2.html

Breaks my heart to see one go like that.

http://www.revscene.net/forums/67340...weekend-2.html

has been alerted by fellow members already, sad day :(

Edit: beat me to it

2nd place!

2nd is only the first loser.

there was an accident at that intersection yesterday too. around 6 as well

be careful when you drive there guys. i'm always around there and i've seen probably 10+ accidents all in that intersection. people just love rushing the yellow and left turners always think they'll stop.

omfg, my favorite supercar of all time too...='( RIP, hope the driver was okay though

MY CHILDHOOD DREAM! NOOO

There was a 250 GTO that crashed at a race a couple years ago. The funny thing is that the car is worth so much, the damage wouldn't have even affected the value much, if at all. The F40 is obviously very rare and pricey as well, I wonder if the situation is similar to some extent.

I wonder how much icbc will pay him

I don't think ICBC covers most high end cars in the 100k range, much less an F40. Cars like this are usually covered by private insurance companies.

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For newer cars: ICBC | Own-damage coverage for luxury vehicles

Anyone knows the story behind the accident?

But IIRC it has collector plates. Wonder how thats gonna work out.

Yes, it's badly damaged, but to say it's 'totaled' is a huge stretch.

Any car with any amount of damage can be repaired, whether or not it makes financial sense is the mitigating factor; the value of an F40 makes a write-off very unlikely.

Case in point: a F40 with more severe damage, fully repaired and back on the road.
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I wonder if the factory can rebuild it?

did it hit a tree or something? from the video it looks very repairable

$500,000 Ferrari F40 Crashed After Someone Foolishly Drives It In The Rain

it made it's way onto Jalopnik apparently

With the fresh rain after a dry spell, all the power and turbo lag, no electronic safety features and sport tires, I give the driver the benefit on the doubt that he wasn't doing anything too remotely stupid when he crashed.

Just read that he was coming home from the car show, so it wasn't like he took it out purposefully in the rain.

:okay:

I get a kick out of the author telling the F40 owner what he should or shouldn't be doing with his car.

Yeah it's a rare car, but it's HIS rare car and he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it.

yeah basically just that, "what an idiot" attitude that usually spawns from jealousy.

It'll most likely be sent back for Ferrari for repairs. It definitely looks very repairable.

I think the attitude comes from the fact that the guy destroyed a super rare classic car. He's not important. But the car is a piece of history. The car had meaning and history, which is now tainted.

I'm not jealous of the guy. But I do think he's an idiot for destroying a classic supercar because of a little wetness on the road. It's fucking Vancouver, based in a Pacific rain forest. It's not LA where the rain is a surprise.