Italian Police Have Foiled A Plot To Steal Enzo Ferrari's Body

This has to be right up there with some of the strangest motoring stories we’ve seen in recent years. It’s emerged that Italian police have thwarted a gang’s plot to steal the body of none other than Enzo Ferrari, founder of Scuderia Ferrari and later the massively successful car company also bearing his name.

The gang had scoped out the family tomb in Modena, and had planned to flee to the Apennine Mountains after stealing the body, demanding a ransom from the Ferrari family shortly after.

The plot came to light amid extensive raids on an Italian gang based in Sardinia, as part of an operation involving 300 police officers and military personnel. The Enzo plot was revealed by the police at a press conference earlier this week.

Enzo - who died in 1988 at the age of 90 - founded Scuderia Ferrari in 1929, which ran Alfa Romeo’s Grand Prix racing efforts at the time. A road car effort was founded in 1939, with the company we know and love now officially established in 1947 - hence Ferrari celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year.