Diablos are not sea-worthy...

Im from Regina, SK, CAN. I am in the US for school playing golf ... WHOS car is this ... post this in the CAN section.

 

I can see the eBay ads now...

"Pristine, show stopping stunner! New interior! Never seen rain!"

 

you forgot to mention the pressure washed and detailed undercarriage.

 

"Who's the U-boat Commendatore?"

 

Looks like a Florida Tag...

 

the water is high but it is hard to tell if it actually is above the bottom of the door...?
maybe none got it. plus all the engine electronics are on top of the engine. I bet it
starts right up once it dries out.

 

I would guess the engine would be ok but after submerging wouldnt you want to rebuild / repack the diffs and all the UV joints and the brakes as well. not to mention what the interior will need. What a bummer

 

The main engine electronics are bolted to the floor pan behind the passenger seat and that looks very close to being under water to me.

-mick

 

this is bringing tears to my eyes , that sux

 

It sure looks likes it's sitting in the middle of the street and not just parked next to the curb.

 

Agree. Also it's not moving. water in exhaust. And I suspect engine off... I suspect there would be enough exhaust flow to disturb the water even at idle...

 

Bummer. I know the car. We sold it out of our MotorCars International store about 2 1/2 years ago.

 

note taken. Thank you

 

damn!!!

i definitely recognize that car as being owned by a member.
I'm pretty sure that was the sole diablo in Regina a few years ago.

btw, those are Saskatchewan plates. not florida.
they use a very similar green.

if Saskatchewan insurance works the same was as MPI in Manitoba, that car will be promply written off and sold at auction with a salvage title.
As soon as you get water inside the interior, they classify it an instant total loss.
Basically that will need a FULL restoration. All interior carpets gotta go. all electrical. it looks like it was driven right into that water, not just sitting there, so there's a good chance the engine sucked up water also. That means rebuilt engine.
Not to mention, the water is backed up in the streets, so that means that the sewers couldn't keep up, therefore there's likely sewage in the streets (at least a little bit). I wouldn't even want that car back

Sad to say, but this is pretty much guaranteed to be a total loss.

 

I can almost guarantee you that's florida. Looks like that almost daily out here...

Fred

 

Dear Lamborghinisti,

OUCH.....a Diablo of all cars!


It looks like water has entered the cabin as the door line is below the upper line of the back of the rocker panel. I doubt it only has wet front carpets. Gday is right, the computers are just behind the passenger seat on the ground. They have non weather harness plugs. The front fuse box goes all the way to the floor pan in the front of the passenger footwell....so, that's probably waterlogged.

I doubt the drive shafts need rebuilding as they are weather proof for heavy rain. I also doubt the engine is hurt as the air intakes are just behind the rear quarter glass. Probably an "electronics" write-off....too bad.

Oh, I don't think the tags are Florida tags. Even though the tag has been blurred, the center symbol is long and narrow. We now have a 2 orange cluster with stem and orange blossoms as our center symbol. It would show up as a round blob...not a rectangle.


Shamile

Freeze...Miami Vice !

 

Does anyone even read the thread? Even the OP's link is to a Saskatchewan online paper.

 

I don't think the car was driven into the flood water, as some have suggested. The photo is not taken from the best angle for depth of view, but it appears to me as though the Diablo and the white Chevy truck are both parked on opposite sides of the same street.

 

Hey Randy!

Maybe you can buy it back and do a little razzle dazzle and wham like it never even happened!

You can say you had a tri-fecta!

 

Dude, seriously? C'mon and grow up already. No one wanted to hear your BS in your other thread and no one wants to hear it now....

 

The owner of the car posted in the Saskatchewan thread in the Canada forum and said the water was up to the top of the shifter tunnel. It was parked, and apparently in a new development where the last thing you would expect to occur is a sewer backup in the summertime.

 

bummer. but actually, in my city, that's exactly what i would expect.
I've witnessed 3 times the water in one of our newer developments reach 2 feet deep in the streets.