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Was the smashed Enzo in Malibu in '07 ever rebuilt?

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  1. bitzman

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    I just ran across the original article today about the crash where the car broke in half but it doesn't say
    if the Enzo broken in half was ever rebuilt. I think it was in the country illegally, bought in the UK and transported across the pond without the car loan bank's permission.
    Just curious, not thinking of buying it.
     
  2. ApexOversteer

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    Dietrich... Is that you?
     
  3. Peloton25

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    Previous threads list the serial number as 135564.

    I don't recall it resurfacing - if it did there wasn't much fanfare, but quite a bit of the car was still intact and I'd expect it eventually got pieced back together.

    Earlier thread on a similar topic produced no real info, but did have the same first post. :D

    http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187036

    >8^)
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  4. yvesolution

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    strange, who/what is Dietrich?
     
  5. Peloton25

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    #5 Peloton25, Oct 17, 2012
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    "Dietrich" was the name Eriksson gave police as the driver of the Enzo at the start of their investigation. Wikipedia has a fairly concise version of the original story, though the price mentioned within seems rather optimistic:

    >8^)
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  6. BigTex

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    IIRC the note was with the Bank of Scotland, who returned the salvaged bits to Maranello.

    If the Utah car can return to the Salt Flats, I see no reason why not.

    This car due to news items might have gotten a new VIN.....
     
  7. bitzman

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    You can bet the CHP will be watching his wheels , whatever he's driving. Here's a story from the Malibu paper about the miscreant. I want to know the estimate on repairing the Enzo and who owns it now, just for idle curiosity sake.
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    Malibu Surfside News
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    Financial Woes Continue for Malibu Ferrari Crash Driver

    • More Creditors Seek Restitution from Swedish National Now Serving Time in State Prison

    BY ANNE SOBLE

    Last week, another British creditor joined the ranks of those asking in Los Angeles Superior Court for enforcement of a civil judgment against the imprisoned driver who crashed a rare red Enzo Ferrari in Malibu last year.
    BMW Financial Services Ltd. of Hook, England, filed the lawsuit against Bo Stefan Eriksson, asking for approximately $350,000, plus eight percent interest.
    Earlier the English bank holding the title to the demolished high performance car, whose battered image was relayed around the world, asked the court to enforce more than $1.3 million in civil judgments against the Swedish national, who turned 45 in prison last December.
    Eriksson crashed the Ferrari on Pacific Coast Highway on Feb. 21, 2006, while driving under the in*fluence at about 160 mph, according to a lengthy sheriff’s department investigation. Eriksson, in highly unusual circumstances, was not detained at the scene of the accident, which remains shrouded in relative mystery.
    According to the BMW lawsuit, the money is owed for a loan Eriksson signed in 2004, to buy a Rolls-Royce Phantom. A judgment was reportedly ob*tained by the company against Eriksson in England about a year ago, ac*cording to the paperwork.
    The week before, Capital Bank of Chester, England, filed its action, which states that its civil judgments stem from Eriksson’s alleged breach of a 2005 loan for the now infamous Enzo and similar violation of an agreement for the purchase of a black Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR by Eriksson’s former company, Gizmondo Eur*ope Ltd. The SLR, which had been re*ported stolen, was im*pounded with Eriks*son’s wife Nicole at the wheel.
    The Phantom, the red Enzo and the SLR were part of a stable of luxury and high performance cars, including a black Enzo, that were acquired by Eriks*son, a super car aficionado who has raced the course at LeMans. The Erikssons lived a lavish lifestyle in a gated Bel Air estate.
    Eriksson’s Los Angeles counsel on the restitution litigation, Tracy Green, a white-collar crime specialist, said the list of creditors seeking to attach Eriksson’s assets will probably grow. They’ll “be coming at him from all directions,” she said
    Green said her primary concern is to oversee the compilation of records and keep the requests to “hard costs,” because “there’s a lot of padding going on.”
    Court dates for the first of the restitution airings have not been scheduled because judges have ex*pressed the need for more information, Green added.
    Los Angeles Superior Court has jurisdiction over Eriksson, who is a Swedish national, because he lived in Los Angeles at the time of the alleged violations, according to the lawsuits.
    Green corroborated state*ments by Nicole Eriksson to the Swedish press that the couple “has nothing left” financially, but clarified it to mean that the couple’s assets “are all tied up.”
    The attorney also confirmed that Nicole Eriksson left the United States with her children and is now living with her parents in Germany and “trying to raise funds for the mounting legal costs.” She said she could offer no insight into the wife’s actions in*volving the SLR that may have compounded her husband’s legal problems.
    Following a trial with a changing cast of attorneys, Eriksson was sentenced last November to three years in state prison after pleading no contest to multiple counts of embezzlement re*lated to three of the cars and the charge of be*ing a felon in possession of a firearm.
    He is also serving a concurrent six-month jail term after pleading no contest in October to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving.
    He was transferred to the North Kern County State Prison in Delano for “in*mate reception,” and has now been as*signed to the California Mens Col*ony in San Luis Obispo.
    The CMC has in the past been described as a country club prison, but along with the rest of the state prison system, it is operating at close to double capacity.
    According to Lt. Mike Siebert, the public information officer at CMC, Eriksson is classified as a Level II minimum security in*mate. He is not in a cell, but is housed in a 90-man dormitory.
    Siebert said that the term minimum security nevertheless connotes a facility “with an armed perimeter whose inmates are constantly supervised.”
    He said that Eriksson, having just arrived at CMC, is still undergoing the classification process. As with all other able-bodied in*mates, he will be assigned to a work program with op*tions as di*verse as glove making, mill knitting, laundry, silk screening, and maintenance.
    In addition, he will be able to study auto mechanics, computer repair, data processing, electronics or landscaping. Classes in English as a second language, literacy proficiency and computer use are also available, as are personal growth seminars.
    Green said Eriksson’s release date is contingent on computation of time for good behavior. He is de*scribed as a model inmate.
    Release however will most likely be a prelude to deportation. Green said that United States Immigration and Customs En*force*ment—ICEis the in*vestigative branch of the re*vamped Department of Homeland Security—has begun to prepare charges that could encompass “a couple million dollars in penalties” for illegal entry into the United States
    Among the charges that ICE is expected to pursue are that Eriksson did not disclose a prior felony conviction and prison time in Sweden on an array of racketeering charges. Similar entry violations are ex*pected for the importation of the high performance cars he brought into the country in 2005.
    That Eriksson alleged ties to the Department of Home*land Security at the time of the Ferrari crash may be an added factor in the agency’s eagerness to press maximum charges.
    It was ICE that kept Eriksson from being able to post bond during the months of pre-trail incarceration because he was viewed as being a high risk to leave the country.
    On deportation, Green said definitively, “He will not be staying in the United States.”
    It’s a fascinating story. Per*haps one day Eriksson will tell why he, accompanied by a gun-toting Irish citizen who quickly and quietly left the country after the accident, was driving along Pacific Coast Highway in western Malibu one February morning when he gunned the Enzo accelerator, watched the tach spin, crashed and found himself in a spotlight that took him from a lavish international lifestyle to the confines of state prison.


    ATTIRE CHANGE—Bo Stefan Eriksson has traded the Los Angeles County standard orange jumpsuit for the blue denim and chambray attire of the California Mens Colony in San Luis Obispo. He was recently transferred there from the state Department of Corrections inmate reception center in Delano. Depending on sentence reduction for good behavior, he is expected to serve the remainder of his three year term in the minimum security setting.
     
  8. Motob

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    The pieces of the car were sent back to Ferrari to be rebuilt into a new car. However, none of the the original pieces except for the serial number were used in creating the car. All of the used parts were scrapped. When Ferrari homologates a car to be built in the USA, they set aside a certain number of cars with the EPA/DOT that they will build. Once that number is reached, they cannot make any more. But they can create a new car using the old serial number of a crashed car.

    A number of new Enzos have been created this way. They quoted the owner 600k Euros to rebuild the car, but when he went to pick it up, the bill was 800k Euros. Didn't really matter, as he had it pre-sold for over a million anyway. It was repainted as one of only a few (Three?) black Enzos in the USA.
     
  9. Peloton25

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    Just so we are clear, you are suggesting that the car was rebuilt to US specifications even though it was originally a Euro car? Interesting factoid I guess.

    >8^)
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  10. 134282

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    Can you tell us a bit more about this, and a bit more about how come across this information?
     
  11. karlos23

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    Iceman bought "a brand new black one" in 2008 didn't he?
     
  12. BigTex

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    Sounds legit.

    Similar to Dahr's car, here.

    Check out where he works, Carbon.....
     
  13. BigTex

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    He was in the UK.

    I suspect a lot more of them were "kept in plastic" in Europe than we did here.

    Mr. G's P4/5 was the last "new" one in North America, IIRC
     
  14. Ferrari_Michael

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    There seems some confusion, to clarify...

    The 2008 'Black Enzo' was a rebuilt US spec car crashed and burned when the owner had a heart attack at the wheel, no part was reused and the mileage was set to that of the damaged car, it was NOT the Euro Spec car crashed on PCH. The 2008 black car was a US spec car, registered in the UK, everyone knows who owned it, I dont know where it currently is after it was reportedly seized.

    The car that was crashed on PCH by Steffan Errikson was a euro spec car, on british plates, so by that logic, KNOWING the car had a euro VIN, it couldn't have been rebuilt into a US spec car, I deeply suspect Motob is inaccurate in this instance, I guess he thinks the black 2008 Icemanbops car is the PCH car, well its not. All I know is Bank of Scotland took charge of the vehicle and it hasn't been seen since.


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  15. Ferrari_Michael

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    There's a few of them still in their shipping white plastic, I know of 2 in Switzerland, but they have been for sale for years at stupid priced, its silly as these cars have bad fluids in them, old tyres that have had the cars sitting on them for years, engines never turned, never serviced ect. The best cars are the used ones.
     
  16. Ferrari_Michael

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    Further Clarification:

    Crashed PCH, Euro Spec car unknown fate - 135564

    Black rebuilt from crashed and burned US Spec car to become Icenambops 2008 Enzo - 134952
     
  17. karlos23

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    thank you for the clarification,,,,,,,,,it was just a thought.
     
  18. Rifledriver

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    A friend was involved in the air transport of that car back to Ferrari Spa. The remains were purchased by Ferrari and it was expected to be rebuilt. It all took place just days before Monterey of that year.

    If it was rebuilt or where it went after I have no idea.
     
  19. thepinkumbrella

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  20. NürScud

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    Does this belonged to Jean Todt's son?
     
  21. amenasce

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    Yes
     
  22. NürScud

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    Thanks. That was one of the few special Enzos.
     
  23. Flash G

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    Could its legendary history add value?
     
  24. PAP 348

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    So Ferrari bought it, rebuilt it and I assume it was given to Jean Todt's son?

    Lol, crazy stuff! Glad to see it was rebuilt at least.
     
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