This Newly Restored Ferrari F40 Burned To The Ground On Its First Drive
Something truly terrible has happened. A recently restored Ferrari F40 – arguably the world’s most famous supercar – burned to the ground on its maiden appearance back on the road.
A post by a user in the Ferrari Chat forum showed several images of an F40 in the UK completely burned to a crisp, with pretty much the entire car being destroyed.
There isn’t much information about what happened but by the look of the damage, the fire could have started from the engine bay and spread to the rest of the car.
According to the poster, Paul5000, the car had just been completely restored and was on its first drive when it caught fire.
We don’t know if anyone was injured or how the incident started. But what we do know is the car has burned to the ground and will never be used again.
Later in the post thread, Paul5000 said if the car is classed as a “category B” salvage vehicle, it will have to be stripped and the chassis crushed .
Any parts that were not damaged can be taken off the car and removed, but it seems unlikely that much will be useable from this F40.
We’ll see what happens but it doesn’t look good for the crispy remains of this F40, which hits us right in the feels.
Comments
Who elses restores catch fire??
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The sad thing is rhat they will crush what reamins i think they should preserve what is left tho most of it is gone you could use it to display the chassis
Why did it burn to the ground? Because Ferrari.
…. my heart…..
See? It’s not only the Fieros
Am I the only one who is never suprised when a ferrari is on fire?
Sad to say, but newly restored Ferrari’s have burnt down on their maiden voyage before, namely a bright yellow 308 in America, though that was at a fuel station after static electricity from his finger zapped the pump and sparked the fuel
OMG SHUT UP AND TAKE MY…oh i forgot.i don’t have money
Who cares for rhd cars anyway?