Should rare cars be rebuilt after a fatal crash?

Tough call.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-cars-rebuilt-fatal-crash-161500722.html

 

Should houses be razed when someone dies within? Murdered within?
Death is a normal part of life. Why are we so hung up on it?

 

yep.

This case is particularly sad, but the car can be fixed, it's not nearly totaled. Owner might sell it post repair, I think I would, but that doesn't mean you toss it on the scrap heap.

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I think the owner would want it to be reborn. I know I would.

We are only temporary custodians of these machines. Why should the future be denied?

 

Let the market decide. If there is a buyer that says it all.

So many race drivers died in 50s through 70s yet those cars seem to be disired...perhaps at a discount but still people buy em.

 

That is one selfish article.

A 13-year old boy is dead, and all they can think about is rebuilding the Ferrari?

 

Copy n pasting a post that has been deleted/censored isn't a moral issue but rebuilding a car is




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Um... because there was a child involved.

 

I see no issues with rebuilding the car.

 

Why punish the car?

 

What a stupid article. Just trying to capitalize on that awful accident.

It's up to the owner to do whatever he wants with the car.

 

So what is the acceptable age of a victim for the car to be rebuilt?

 

+1
F50s enough, eurospares will take it

 

Gosh........are not so rare cars rebuilt after a fatal accident?

 

I think there was a precedent for rare ferrari rebuilt after occupant's death
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2725715/Classic-Ferrari-involved-fatal-accident-expensive-car-selling-38-1MILLION.html

 

If you are against a rebuild, do you salvage the parts? Where do you draw the line?

 

Fixed it for you.

It's tragic for sure but I agree with others that just because someone died somewhere you don't scrap it. If that were the case we'd have to build new hospitals daily.

 

I watched a friend of mine die in a motorcycle crash in 1979 when we were both riding our bikes from south San Jose to the beaches of Santa Cruz on highway 9 in northern California (not NorCal) before dawn. He was following me and went off the road into a pumpkin patch. I saw him in my rear view mirror. The bike was a 1200cc 4-cylinder and was twisted at the frame. The tank was also crushed. His out-of-state family asked us to sell it locally. When buyers came to enquire they kept asking more and more questions that normally would have been OK. However, they just didn't get the fact that this was not a normal sale and a good friend had died on it. I did not like to look at the bike and couldn't wait to get rid of it. Don't care if vehicles like that are restored, I just would never own one. Bad Juju for sure.

 

While I understand the emotional reaction to it, the fact is that there is a demand for certain vehicles. And I understand its not just vehicles, it can extend to motorcycles, houses, and a host of other items. My question to others is where do you draw the line?



PDG

 

Life is for the living, rebuild the car and enjoy it.

 

I have no issue with rebuilding the car. That should be up to the owner, current or subsequent. I might have an issue with owning it, would have to think about that.

For me, the lesson is to always decline a quick ride in a supercar if you don't know the driver very very well, and perhaps even if you do (thinking of Paul Walker and two guys who died in a Carrera GT a few years ago on a track day in California).

 

Nothing wrong with rebuilding it as many race cars where driver was killed can even command high prices.

But based on the circumstances and loss of a child in such a way I personally would not want it nor even want to ride/drive it.

 

Here we have yet another driver in "someone else's car"

Of course it will rebuilt, and the driver, should he live, sued into bankruptcy!

I m glad to get me avatar back.
She only jumped in, "for a short ride"...ad a few miles later lay dead, burned to death , in the fire foam.

Stupid is, as stupid does....

Everyone PLEASE keep it in mind.
I share my car all the time, but you keep your head out of your own azz......

 

Build it. It will carry the stigma for as long as people want to remember. The market will decide if the car has value when it is restored. A very sad story and the death is most likely due to negligence. It's hard to imagine a circumstance where the driver was not at fault under what sounded like a controlled situation. Speed? Maybe. What if a sheep strayed across the road? Something on the car broke? Could be. Or just maybe the driver was hooning around for the kid and messed up.

 

I guess it depends on your belief in paranormal things like souls, ghosts, karma, curses, luck etc.