Another Zonda crash!

[cc8s]

Another Zonda crash...and a bad one. I believe it is Peter Saywell's old car, now in Hong Kong?

Edited by cc8s on Thursday 26th January 11:45

[CIE560]

Ouch! Looks nasty, but even these rare cars can be replaced. I hope nobody was badly injured.

[iandc]

CIE560 said:

Ouch! Looks nasty, but even these rare cars can be replaced. I hope nobody was badly injured.

looks nasty but the crash zone seems to have done its job as driver cell looks intact. Shame to see that car so badly damaged. If it was Peter's car it looked immaculate when in his care.

[Nedzilla]

Thats fked.

[iandc]

Nedzilla said:

Thats fked.

Is that your in-depth technical opinion!!!

[mlj]

iandc said:

Nedzilla said:

Thats fked.

Is that your in-depth technical opinion!!!

Would be mine too

[Doshy]

Estimated speed in that built up area.....?

[andrew]

Doshy said:

Estimated speed in that built up area.....?

it looks like downtown kowloon : quite tricky to build-up any kind of speed there

[TomCooper]

iandc said:

looks nasty but the crash zone seems to have done its job as driver cell looks intact.

The cells seem to be bulletproof!
The one below crashed at nearly 200mph and the cell remained intact. Both driver and passenger walked away




Hope the occupants of this car did too!

[70proof]

Nedzilla said:

Thats fked.

nah, should polish out...

[Cooldudeoli]

Would be interesting to find out what happened. Agreed with the above post, the cells seem to remain intact which is excellent considering that crash at 200mph 5* NCAP right there

[Streetrod]

Judging but what I have been offered recently that looks reparable. The Zonda has steel round tube sub frames on the back and front of the central carbon fibre tub, these form part of the crash structure. If the central tub is relatively un-touched the car can and will be rebuilt

[heebeegeetee]

Not good to see one smashed up in a built-up area.

[Dr G]

Streetrod said:

Judging but what I have been offered recently that looks reparable. The Zonda has steel round tube sub frames on the back and front of the central carbon fibre tub, these form part of the crash structure. If the central tub is relatively un-touched the car can and will be rebuilt

Almost certainly fixable; ultra high value cars like this would need considerable chassis, fire or water damage to write off.

[will_]

Dr G said:

Streetrod said:

Judging but what I have been offered recently that looks reparable. The Zonda has steel round tube sub frames on the back and front of the central carbon fibre tub, these form part of the crash structure. If the central tub is relatively un-touched the car can and will be rebuilt

Almost certainly fixable; ultra high value cars like this would need considerable chassis, fire or water damage to write off.

The last Zonda to have a big crash in HK (an F coupe IIRC) was being rebuilt from the chassis up when I visited Pagani. In comparison, this one doesn't look too bad.

[Streetrod]

Zonda's are massively strong cars that seem to be able to bounce back from almost any accident. As I said in another thread Bob Forstner offered me a deal on this car to be rebuilt at a minimum cost of £1 million for the finished car. Apparently Pagani are insisting that the rebuilt car be sold for no less than that. After I stopped laughing I had to ask Bob if he was serious, apparently he was. What also annoyed me was the fact that they are advertising this car as your last chance to have a custom car built as they are willing to change the chassis numbers to disguise the cars origins. Now I am a massive fan of Pagani but I think this is taking the mick considering two RHD F's are currently available for far less. And those have not been crashed or burned to a crisp.

Here is the add by the way and and please note the price quoted does not include VAT

http://www.jameslist.com/advert/225017/for-sale-pa...

Edited by Streetrod on Thursday 26th January 14:23

[humpbackmaniac]

That couldnt be a lurking disguised Harry Metcalf in the pic above?

[AL001]

Streetrod said:

Zonda's are massively strong cars that seem to be able to bounce back from almost any accident. As I said in another thread Bob Forstner offered me a deal on this car to be rebuilt at a minimum cost of £1 million for the finished car. Apparently Pagani are insisting that the rebuilt car be sold for no less than that. After I stopped laughing I had to ask Bob if he was serious, apparently he was. What also annoyed me was the fact that they are advertising this car as your last chance to have a custom car built as they are willing to change the chassis numbers to disguise the cars origins. Now I am a massive fan of Pagani but I think this is taking the mick considering two RHD F's are currently available for far less. And those have not been crashed or burned to a crisp.

You must have some nice cars tucked away but I don't recall seeing any photos, other than the modern Ford Mustang and Ferrari 250 SWB in your profile.

Is the 250 SWB yours?

[Streetrod]

I would love to say "Yes it is" but that would be a fib. Due to a number of long term relationships I have been very lucky in having had access to a number of very desirable classic cars and can also count as friends certain people within some of my favourite manufactures. This has allowed me a lot of wheel time in some very nice motors. I have also been involved in helping friends to source certain high profile classic cars which again has been very satisfying but as you can imagine very confidential which is why I have never published pics.

The dream garage is being worked on, hopefully news soon

[birdcage]

I dont think it's that bad. The bits that were supposed to break and fall off did and the tub stayed intact.