250 TR crash at the Monterey Historics

Very nice photo work, though,...... man, those are SHARP!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That's a shame, but David has raced that car for a long time. He drives it, doesn't just ride around. Glad to see he's ok. The car can be fixed.

 

Looks like it could have been a lot worse, this can be fixed.

 

+1

"It'll buff right out!"

Seriously, I was expecting much worse - I'd say he dodged a bullet there in fact (fortunately!)

Cheers,
Ian

 

those are amazing photographs

 

+1, thank goodness for tire walls....that could have been REALLY bad. Glad he's OK.

 

There's a panel-beater out there who'll be busy for a while.

 

I guess if you can play that game you can also humpty dumpty that thing together again.

 

This is not sad, these cars were meant to be driven, they were not meant to spend their life in the garage.

And yeah its also an old race car, they were humpty-dumpty pieced together from day one, its a racecars life, to be crashed and put back together.

Of course I can say that, its not my car and not my pocketbook but I would rather see a old car like that crash out of existence doing what it was designed to do, then die out of public sight in some air conditioned garage never to be seen except by the privileged few.

 

Yikes!

 

No Biggie, these cars are indestructable as long as you have the VIN you can rebuild it from just the number plate

This is just some bent aluminum

Chances are good the engine and trans are replicas as lots of these guys keep the originals safely locked up

 

Given the frames just lend themselves to it, I took the liberty of
making a movie of them. You can view it at the link below - it will
take about a minute to load - let it buffer fully then hit play again
to see it run. File was too big to upload here. It's in WMV format....

Movie link: http://tinyurl.com/r347z8

Jedi

 

Only 2 frames were transposed, but don't detract from fact the Short film is beautiful in it's sadness.

 

Ouch! I give him credit (I think?) for driving something that valuable on a track! Important thing is driver is OK, which cannot be said about the car...


http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/17/monterey-2009-ferrari-250-tr-gets-airborn-makes-friends-with-t/

 

The driver is fortunate the car didn't flip over. I don't think that roll bar would have done any good. So luckily it's only damaged metal and pride, but still a shame.

 

0754's body is no longer original, anyway. Crashed at least once, in period. HEAVILY. Arguably, every panel on that car is not original. So, I don't know why everyone makes such a stink about it.

Here's a link...http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/DavidLove3.html

CW

 

A minor shunt in a vintage race car often costs less to repair than the total loss of an uninsured modern street car suffering the same track incident. In other words, if it was a 599 at an open track event, it might be total financial loss and headed to the crusher.

How's that for a rationalization to race vintage cars!?

 

I think Stirling Moss said it best [and I'm paraphrasing here] "if it's worth restoring, it's worth repairing"

 

+1

 

David's owned it since 1964 and been racing it nearly that whole time. Kudos to him. From CW's site reference...

"Love raced the car from 1965 to 1968 against mid-engined competition in SCCA events. In 1974, Love won at the first Monterey Historics and has campaigned the car ever since in historic racing."

 

And, good on him for doing it! Bumps, dents and scrapes be damned!

CW

 

The "Old Man," would be proud! The "Old Man," being Enzo Ferrari, it's creator.

That's the life of a warrior.

Ciao...Paolo

 

And, all of our lives are much more interesting because people actually do put these things on tracks and run them hard.

I just can't WAIT for the smart car races to commence!

CW

 

Great skill to catch all those views of the TR in action. Other cars have suffered much worse and have been returned in fine form after repairs.
CH