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Old 02-29-2004, 10:27 AM
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Believe it or not..... That Ferrari is very fixable. Reinsuring it is going to be a bigger problem than repairing it. Rebuilding vehicles is a very lucrative business. I have a friend that make a **** of a living doing it. You study the way the vehicle was wrecked and rebuild from that point on out until every damaged body panel is repaired. You 'd be amazed at what can be repaired. The hardest to repair are front hits because of the engine damage that you can't see until breakdown. Exotic cars are easier to repair behind...Well! Most of the engine are aft mounted so it's just a matter of structure repair. Look at that ENZO real good! There's no apparent body twist at all just a clean frontal structure hit. But Da%$ that's going to be expensive!
It can't twist - CFRP doesn't bend like metal. And, while I'm sure your friend is very good at his job, ask him whether or not he can repair a vehicle made entirely of carbon fiber and glue. I bet he doesn't have an autoclave. That's not a dig, the equipment just costs tens of millions of dollars.

That's my point - very few people, besides Ferrari, are going to be able to repair this thing at all. I would guess that there isn't any place in the US that can do it.
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Look at it this way...

Anyone that wanted to drive a previously wrecked, not to mention 'totalled', $600,000+ car 200 mph would have to be nuts. May as well buy a VW based kit car (can you say "Countach kit car"?) With that kind of mentality one would be better off buying a fleet of P.T. Cruisers...
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Old 03-01-2004, 09:04 AM
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think you could shoehorn that enzo motor into the backseat of an svx?

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I found one for Rob there.
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Look like we have a third one totaled

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