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F40 Overturns in the UK

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    “‘Good tires,” the tech mused, casually cleaning off his cell phone, “but certainly not great tires."
     
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    Likely a "former service technician" now.
     
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    YIKES!
     
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    cold slippy roads out there atm!
     
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    Ferrari F40 crashed by an EX service technician in the UK...

     
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    Last year in Germany, now the UK.
     
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    Perhaps goes without saying, that if you have a F40 (or similar) there seems a high likelihood someone will be filming you.
     
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    What a dumbass!
     
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    Sigh. What is this.. exotic car horror story #842?

    How many does it take before there needs to be explicit instructions with shop owners and test drives after work performed? At mininum with owner or a trusted agent present.

    Hard lesson for all involved.
     
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    So how old were those tires?
     
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    Suposedly one of the highest mileage F40s so it’s unlikely it had old tires just for the amount of use the car gets. Inexperienced moron driver and power from a turbo and rain will put you in a bad situation regardless of tires…
     
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    This is going to make me sound old, but there are now generations of people who have only ever driven cars, even massively powerful ones, that will correct things for you if you do what previously was considered stupid, like this guy did. Pedal to metal in the damp in a 800 hp 812, just get a little hip wiggle. Ferrari is also good at making you feel like you've corrected it, when you really haven't. Do the same in a F40, what actually happens, happens.

    What service shop let that tech drive in this weather without warning him?

    Or was it actually an older driver who was just really stupid, not just uninformed?

    There was also that tragic story of a F40, or was it a F50, being crashed by an auction warehouse guy killing the teenager he was giving a ride to, also here in the UK, when the same thing seems to have happened.
     
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    I wonder how many F-40s have been wrecked? I guess you would have to first divide the universe into cars that sit in controlled storage and those that are driven. Of the cars that are driven, which might be a minority, how many have been wrecked?
     
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    without traction control and huge electronic aids it would be nuts how many modern ferraris would be crashed, I remember chris harris saying the 488 pista + 296 are basically undrivable without
     
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    100 or more.

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    Wow. I know Ferrari made a lot of F40s, but many went straight into storage.
     
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    are you saying 100+ have been lost for ever ?
    or
    100+ have been crashed, seemingly completely destroyed, but were then built back with the only original item being the vin tag?

    how many of the original 1311 still exist, in any condition whatsoever, in your opinion?
     
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    i wonder how many non bb owners will understand your reference :)
     
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    I am saying that 100 or more have been damaged or even extensively damaged, NOT lost.

    Marcel Massini
     
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    another highly respected member of the international car community once jokingly answered me on that same question by saying
    'i am confident that all 1325 of the 1311 F40's ever created, are still on the road" :)
     
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    Did you know that out of the 36 250 GTO's built all 177 still exist?

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