400-1=399 left ---------- MALIBU, Calif. — Authorities are investigating the circumstances behind a spectacular crash on Pacific Coast Highway that destroyed a rare Ferrari Enzo estimated to be worth more than $1 million. The red Ferrari was going at least 100 mph when the driver lost control and struck a power pole, investigators said. The car—one of only 400 made—shattered, with its engine coming to rest on the highway and its wreckage scattered. Sheriff's investigators identified the owner as Stefan Ericksson, 44, of Bel Air, who escaped the wreck with only a cut lip. "For $1 million, you get a very good passenger-safety system, and apparently in this case it did work," said Sgt. Philip Brooks of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Authorities said Ericksson told them he was a passenger and the driver was a German acquaintance he knew only as Dietrich, who he said ran into the nearby hills. A three-hour search failed to turn up anyone, and officials said they were skeptical of the account. Only the driver's side air bag deployed, Brooks said. "He destroyed one of the finest cars on earth, maybe the finest," said Ferrari owner Chris Banning, a Beverly Hills writer who is finishing a book on the cult of sports car racing along winding Mulholland Drive. "It's like taking a Van Gogh painting and burning it." http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa060222_wz_ferrari.5109e19f.html
It’s like when you hear a vintage WW2 plane crashes, the last one in the UK that I remember was a BF109 Black Six, lucky the pilot survived. Just as that guy in the Ferrari.
ah, what a shame it is to see idiots do these things.... *shakes head* i know a guy who has a friend that wrecked the front end of his aston martin DB6 i almost threw up, because it was such a beautiful car...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | 'Lucky' Ronaldo in Ferrari smash I was watching the Darts World Championship and there was a "humorous" slogan: " Can´t shoot, can´t drive..."
let's see, drawing and quartering is out. Public flogging is out. The pillory is out (too bad that), maybe all that can be done is pointing and laughing at this foolish person everytime he appears in public? All who believe in an unknown new aquaintence name "Dietrich", hold your hands high, so you can also be laughed at as well. I have had great friends I have known for years that I wouldn't let behind the wheel of my "good" cars. And they weren't a FERRARI by any stretch of the imagination. I was pretty proud of the little black exterior/red leather interior '72 Opel GT (baby 'vette) I re-built in the eighties, and while my wife was always a driver; I only let one other person drive it besides her. And Mike had helped me rebuild the engine and tranny! No "Dietrich" I just met, or anybody else I just met. Jeeze, as mentioned before; "fool and money, soon parted". Too bad it wasn't just money.
My 15 year old son will be getting his learner's permit in a couple of weeks . . . I hate reading stories like those featured in this thread. There is a long straight road outside of our subdivision and it is marked in far too many places with crosses and flowers to show where people have died, all too many of them because they felt the need for speed.
The Texas based Commemorative Air Force, which is an organization that rebuilds, maintains, and flies WW2 aircraft requires of it's members to have a written maintenance schedule to keep their planes in working order. There is no such known requirement for car clubs, or owners of vintage cars. It disheartens me when I see a classic vehicle turned into a freakish low rider, or destroyed in a movie. In the late 1970's, I read a story about a guy who owned a 1950's car. One day the car was stolen. Six months later the Police found the car and returned it to it's owner. The owner was surprised at what he saw. The owner later confessed that he used the car as a point A to point B car, and that he let the car maintenance suffer. The thief who had briefly owned the car had done a partial restoration and had it a much nicer car. The owner took the event as a clue and committed himself to keeping the car up.
