Trucker Allegedly Performed PIT Maneuver
There are few things scarier than losing control of your car unexpectedly, and when it happens in a car that is notoriously tricky to drive, on a busy highway, it’s downright terrifying. It’s an ordeal that well-known (but anonymous) Utah-based car collector @supercar_ron reportedly underwent on Saturday, June 28, at around 9:58 PM, while driving his Ferrari F40 LM. In a post on Instagram (embedded at the bottom of this article), he claims that a dark-colored semi-truck pulling a large tanker “essentially performed a PIT maneuver” on him. “I was focused on controlling the car and staying alive,” he wrote. “As a result, I wasn’t able to get the name of the company on the side of the truck.”
Very Little To Go On
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His posts reveal that the carbon-fiber-and-Kevlar body has been ripped on the driver’s side, from roughly halfway down the door and side skirt, all the way to the tail of the car. Parts of the rear bumper have been torn away, but the most severe damage to the drivability of the car is at the left-rear wheel, which has been heavily mangled inside the blown tire.
There does not appear to be any obvious paint transfer from the offending vehicle, and all we know is that ‘Ron’ was traveling “southbound on I-15 near 1600 North on the border of Orem and Lindon.” With no other details available, @supercar_ron is offering a reward for information leading to the identification of the truck and its driver.
It’s Certainly Worth Fixing This Rare Supercar
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Whatever figure the insurance company gets, the costly repairs will certainly be worth carrying out for an icon of this significance. While a ‘regular’ Ferrari F40 is worth anything from $1.4 million to over $3 million, depending on condition, mileage, and provenance, the rarest and most revered F40 LM can fetch as much as $6 million. This particular example won’t have been worth that much, but even at half the value, it’s an always appreciating classic that will doubtless be sent to Ferrari’s Classiche department at some point. More importantly, ‘Ron’ loves driving his cars and sharing them with people – “It’s gonna rust, it’s gonna fade, but the memories you make are gonna last forever,” he says – so he’s definitely going to want to get back behind the wheel again soon.
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