Oh No !!!!!

my brother spotted this at a breakers yard near bolton , uk , he sent me the pic via his phone , anyone know anything about this F40 ?? not much left of it ............
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He spotted this recently?? How depressing...

 

Ouch, looks like fire damage for sure.

 

+1

 

lets hope its a kit car

 

Mirrors, wheels, trunk latch...looks pretty real to me.

 

Can't really tell from the grainy pic, but it looks like it's been there a while.

I wonder if it's one of the fire pics from years back?

 

No, not another one.

 

+1.

 

i know that there was a fire at a ferrari dealer in holland, maybe this is the same car.....but i don't think it is, just a thought.

 

No its not. There have been several burnt F40's.

It is a real F40, not a kit.

 

Andy, can you let me know what breakers it is?

 

Surely at least that front wheel is salvagable if not more.
It would not be left sitting on that pile......would it??

 

+1--Looks like a Porsche under it..

 

I almost cant believe this would be a real one. Even in this state, it looks like quiet some parts are still oke. The wheels alone cost some serious money.

 

Looks like it is on some kind of a ledge that each car is sitting on.

 

right then , i have contacted my brother , it is a real F40 spotted in early march this year at a breakers called douglas valley breakers , just found there website , www.douglasvalley.co.uk , its for sale for £40.000 ,look under car parts , it is listed as engine and interior fire damage , 4 more pics on there website , dont look if you get upset easily !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

sorry to tell you jason but it was spotted this month !!!!!!! he took the picture on his sony phone (that takes great pictures) just before it was going dark , another one bites the dust .

 

This guy has quite a few Ferraris.......here are the F40 pictures. Could be an interesting project.
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The "expensive" parts look pretty well "heat treated". Not much to save here.

 

Yeh, I'll bet even the parts that look undamaged are damaged to some extent. My experience with breakers is they dont take care of the cars. Use forklifts to lift them etc. one of my old cars I crashed I later bought back therefore had to collect it from the breakers. It was definitelt more damaged after the breakers than before, Massive deep scuffs on undamaged arches etc.

With this F40, there are some parts people will buy though, no doubt about that, even if its just for souvenirs! I bought a mint XJ220 rear wheel to use as a brolley stand for instance.

 

Isn't just the VIN no. of some use?

 

There was nothing left of those cars, took some pics from the 'scrap'.

http://peter.terpnet.nl/munsterhuis.html

 

I can't believe they ask 40.000 pounds for this.
There is not much left..

 

The VIN and Title is worth the money. Since there is still no law against the dealing with the paperwork, this "business" will go on and on and on and on ...

How it works: Get f.e. a stolen F40 and the paperwork of this car, replace the VIN and you get a "legal" car. In eastern europe its pretty common to do this and there are lots of customers who don't care if the price is right. The paperwork is needed to get a registration and in case for a export.