Rare Ferrari F40 Burns Down to a Crisp on the Hakone Turnpike in Japan

The final Ferrari to be accepted by the one and solely Commendatore, the F40 ought to have been produced in 400 models. As destiny would have it, the Prancing Horse manufactured a little bit greater than 1,300 copies by way of 1992 attributable to surprisingly excessive demand for the V8-engined supercar.

A yr after an F40 burned to a crisp in Monaco, one other instance of the breed went up in flames on the Hakone Turnpike in Japan. The uploader of the movies on the finish of this text – Twitter person Bambi – experiences that first responders have closed the site visitors in an effort to extinguish the flaming wreck.

Not a lot is understood about how the F40 caught hearth, and the authorities haven’t launched any details about the driving force’s situation both. Primarily based on the security cell, the automotive doesn’t look like crashed, which is all of the extra intriguing. Given the age of the automobile and complex service procedures, a free gas hose or return line might have leaked gasoline on the recent exhaust.

No matter occurred within the engine bay, the one phrase that may describe this occasion is tragedy. On the upside, there’s a likelihood this specific F40 could also be reconditioned to its former glory at nice expense for the proprietor, identical to the F40 that caught hearth in Monaco. One other instance comes within the guise of the crashed F40 purchased by the gearheads at Fuel Monkey Storage for $400,000.

That automotive was reconditioned for the tv sequence Quick N’ Loud a few years in the past, beginning with the teardown to the naked chassis and topping with aftermarket modifications that embody a Tubi exhaust, Kevlar clutch pack, aluminum flywheel, HRE wheels, and Penske Racing adjustable shocks. The automotive then offered at a Barrett-Jackson public sale in 2014 for a cool $742,500.

Why is that this carbonized F40 price restoring, you ask? Because it occurs, costs have gone up by way of the roof since 2014. Hagerty valuates a good-condition automotive within the ballpark of $1.2 million whereas a concours-condition F40 is price $1,650,000 in keeping with the collector and basic automotive insurance coverage firm.LATER EDIT
Yahoo! Japan experiences {that a} couple was within the Italian unique when smoke began popping out from the engine bay. Fortunately, they don’t seem to be injured.