9 miles!

[Chris A.]

Someone managed to total this car within 9 miles!!!!!! That’s got to be the worst case out there. Tragedy....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006...yZ116478QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Kayvan]

Check out this WSJ story in exotic wrecks

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118186544305536109-lMyQjAxMDE3ODExNTgxNjU1Wj.html

 

[SteveA]

Someone managed to total this car within 9 miles!!!!!! That’s got to be the worst case out there. Tragedy....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006...yZ116478QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It would be nice to see the before and not just the after pics.

 

[SYCO GT]

Well written, reasonably accurate article. Thanks for posting it, it was an enjoyable read.

Favorite excerpt:

"The car is like a wild animal"

 

[thegtguy]

Maybe

Found this on wrecked exotics. Minor frame damage on the front x brace?

 

[jj1987]

So this car was totaled before the supercharger even started to boost? lol

 

[Empty Pockets]

If this isn't the car that was smacked into a small concrete bridge bollard last summer (on a New England area golf coarse access road if I remember correctly) - it's a clone of same.

That car's front end hit the bollard at a point just to immediate left of the pass. side headlite. The bollard ended up aft of the radiator about where one would expect it would have come in contact with the chassis.

Pics of it were on the net. (THAT car had 9 miles on it.)

Well! I'll be darned!!!!! By the time I could actually get the computer to POST this - thegtguy had beaten me to it! THAT's the very car I had in mind!

 

[todd]

Rich that is the one I was thinking about also

 

[GTNJ]

Rich that is the one I was thinking about also

Here's the story:

Car:
2005 Ford GT
Description:
Owner of this supercar waited 2 years for the privelage of driving it. With only 9 miles on the odometer, he decided to see how fast it could go. Unfortunately, he lost control and hit a concrete pole near the 17th hole of Mission Hills Country Club.

Location:
Kansas City

 

[Empty Pockets]

We must be wrong because the car in the pics is supposedly an '05, and the one up for sale is an '06.

 

[Kayvan]

Well you can always ping the top 3 bidders. In watch collecting on ebay, folks had no problem doing this when a watch was a fake, flooded, or shilled etc.

Its against 100 ebay rules, but self policing happens

 

[SteveA]

Here's the story:

Car:
2005 Ford GT
Description:
Owner of this supercar waited 2 years for the privelage of driving it. With only 9 miles on the odometer, he decided to see how fast it could go. Unfortunately, he lost control and hit a concrete pole near the 17th hole of Mission Hills Country Club.

Location:
Kansas City



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I wonder if he yelled FORE!


Yes I know, very poor taste.

 

[GTNJ]

We must be wrong because the car in the pics is supposedly an '05, and the one up for sale is an '06.

True but .............. there are 12 cylinder 2007's with cruise control. :rofl

 

[ROCMAN]

140K for a salvage is WAY above what it should sell for. Normally a Salvage will knock down about 30-40% of the value. It should be around $100K. Someone make him an offer and see if it drives straight!:wink :biggrin

 

[GTNJ]

140K for a salvage is WAY above what it should sell for. Normally a Salvage will knock down about 30-40% of the value. It should be around $100K. Someone make him an offer and see if it drives straight!:wink :biggrin

Do you knock down about 30-40% off the value even if it's repaired?

 

[ENZO BTR]

Yes! A salvage title on a car is a MAJOR devaluation factor. That opening bid price is either:

A: Completely ridiculous
B: A reflection of the rising market on GTs

I suspect that today it's still "A" but someday (maybe even sooner than later) it could become "B"

 

[Empty Pockets]

Do you knock down about 30-40% off the value even if it's repaired?

Fixing a dented fender is "repaired". Dis car is waaaaay beyond "repaired". :cheers

 

[cobrajeff]

The car is an '06 (#149 for '06 IS a black/no center stripe car), and must be the same car as the Mission Hills car, as the temporary tag on it is the same one that was shown in some of the old photos of the wreck.

regards,

cobrajeff

 

[Empty Pockets]

The car is an '06 (#149 for '06 IS a black/no center stripe car), and must be the same car as the Mission Hills car, as the temporary tag on it is the same one that was shown in some of the old photos of the wreck.

regards,

cobrajeff

Then the origional reporting included with the web pics HAS to have stated "'05" in error. 'Sure wouldn't be the 1st time THAT ever happened. :lol

 

[fjpikul]

Unless I'm mistaken, it "happened " in '05 with a brand new '06 in KC.