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insured for $3.000,000
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insured for $3.000,000

"a car on fire with the door open"

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TimD Report This Comment
Date: November 27, 2011 05:36PM

If that's the McLaren F1 that burned in Southern California, I actually delivered and drove that car twelve miles to a friend of the owner in Oregon back in late 2007. What a great car it was...
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: November 27, 2011 05:41PM

ouch
TimD Report This Comment
Date: November 27, 2011 06:03PM

We picked this car up at the auto port in Oxnard, CA along with six Coopers, believe it or not that were going to a car show at Quest Field in Seattle. We had to go to some "special" part of the BMW building (BMW makes the engine in the F1) and they made a mechanic watch us load it. As I was driving it up the ramp of our enclosed transport trailer the guy kept begging me to be careful because they had just installed a new $12,000 clutch and they are only good for a few thousand miles. I think the owner bought the F1 for $1.6 million with something like 12,000 miles. I have pics of the inside of the car and of it in our trailer. Maybe I could post them if there are any F1 fans here.

Anyway, we delivered the car to a guy just south of Portland who said he was just holding it for a friend of his attorney. We couldn’t get our 18-wheeler to the guy’s house so he had me drive the F1 behind him at a race car pace the 12 miles to his house. It was absolutely the chance of a lifetime to drive that car at 100+ mph on a winding Oregon and it was the best tip I ever got.
TimD Report This Comment
Date: November 27, 2011 06:24PM

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 27/11/2011 06:40PM by TimD.