This Fire-Wrecked Ferrari 512 Has Just Sold For About $40,000

With extensive damage to the rear of the car, a burned-out engine bay and an interior straight from the apocalypse, this Ferrari should be scrap... but someone clearly thinks otherwise
This Fire-Wrecked Ferrari 512 Has Just Sold For About $40,000

When buying a $40,000 used car it’s usual to insist that it has, oh, you know, an engine, or an interior you can sit in. At that price it would be fair enough to ask that it drove well, too.

However, this 1983 Ferrari 512 offers none of that. It has been pretty much obliterated from the front bulkhead backwards in a fire that must have started somewhere amidships. Despite that, it has just sold for, we believe, around the $40,000 mark after bids were recorded just hours ago at $39,750.

This Fire-Wrecked Ferrari 512 Has Just Sold For About $40,000

How this rusted, near-useless mess of barbecue charcoal could possibly be worth more than a brand new Honda Civic Type R (before infuriating dealer mark-ups, anyway) we can’t fathom.

The fire has gutted the interior; it’s now unquestionably useless to any living thing that doesn’t feed on oxidised metal. The engine might look okay at a glance, but judging by the destruction around it, the fire must have burned hot in the engine bay and we wouldn’t trust the key components not to be damaged.

This Fire-Wrecked Ferrari 512 Has Just Sold For About $40,000

The gearbox is probably trashed, too. The listing states it’s an automatic despite us being clearly able to see the gate of the manual gearbox in the pictures. We’d be amazed if it was unscathed, but if it was low enough to be out of the worst of the heat, you never know.

It’s the front end where perhaps some value still lies. It has only light damage, and if you already own a 512 with front end damage, perhaps this one will let you fix yours. Still, that’s a lot of cash just for some spares…

Source: CarScoops

Comments

Tomislav Celić

New profile pic Matt

Hard to get used to

11/27/2017 - 10:04 |
58 | 6
Matthew Henderson

Toasty! Poor thing, I hope the current owner will restore it.

11/27/2017 - 10:16 |
12 | 0

I don’t think that thing can be restorable

11/27/2017 - 10:23 |
26 | 0

I don’t believe you’d legally be allowed to. Not when it’s been issued with a certificate of destruction.

11/28/2017 - 01:35 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

When you are desperate to finish the race in GTA but it is w/weapons

11/27/2017 - 10:27 |
6 | 0
Anonymous

I remembered the 2guys 1car episode, where Alex explains that McLaren is better than a Ferrari, because it doesn’t catch fire all the time. I guess he was right.

11/27/2017 - 10:30 |
8 | 4
Zac1209

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Remember the P1 !

11/29/2017 - 02:04 |
4 | 0
Anonymous

craigslist be like “Ferrari 512 like new, very slight damage from temperature.”

11/27/2017 - 10:43 |
16 | 4
Anonymous

Wow. What idiot would buy a car that you cant drive for more than $5? I mean an actual car.

11/27/2017 - 12:19 |
0 | 2
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Maybe he wants to display it in glass?

11/27/2017 - 13:24 |
0 | 0
Lauge

what the…………

11/27/2017 - 13:17 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

This makes Tyler Hoover, from Hoovies Garage look better, I suppose…
I don’t think I’ve made a good impression on him, have I?

11/27/2017 - 14:27 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Project car is go!

11/27/2017 - 16:10 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Ferrari Games: Catching Fire

11/27/2017 - 19:45 |
6 | 0

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