How to make a grown man cry ...

[J.O.]

Wrecked Exotics

[Kip Powick]

Actually Jeff, to hell with the cars, I'm in love again. Check out the Left Hand Screen saver ...oh sorry ..you are a pilot and that is probably why you were on the page anyway.

Thanks for the link

PS.. I must clarify...I went back to the page and the page had changed, lots of adverts), so perhaps you didn't see the other exotic creature(s)

[Mitch Cronin]

On the upside.... that's just the kind of thing that can make a real beaut available to one who could never afford it otherwise... it takes some coin to replace plastic and leather bits... wiring and paint... but you end up with a machine worth oodles more than what you have to invest.

I know a guy who did that with a big Mercedes a while back... bought one that had been in a fire, and wound up with a car he could easily sell for twice what he'd put into it. He instead sold it to his father for just what it had cost him.

[Croc Dundee]

Imagine losing this car.........apparently, before the incident, Mercedes promoted this car as un-stealable.

DC boss's R6,4m car stolen

BERLIN - Thieves have stolen the 800000-euro (about R6,4 million) car driven by DaimlerChrysler boss Juergen Schrempp, and investigators say the chances of finding it are slim, Germany's Bild daily reported yesterday.

The bullet-proof Class S 600 Mercedes was stolen within 20 minutes of it being parked outside a building in Stuttgart three weeks ago, the newspaper reported.

An investigator said the vehicle, which has reinforced panels and weighs about 3,5 tons, was probably stolen with a tow truck. Despite being equipped with a satellite global positioning system, it could not be located.

"The limousine was most likely an order from the Russian mafia and was probably taken abroad a long time ago," the investigator said.

[J.O.]

Kip:

Whatever do you mean? My high-end pop-up blocker doesn't allow me to see such things!

Mitch:

I have a friend who works as a mechanic at a Porsche dealership in California, and he told me that Porsche forced a European dealer to crush new 17 cars that were damaged in a similar incident, thus preventing any such renovations. At the car show last year, I was chatting with a gal at the Volvo display (we were discussing the quality of her... um... I mean... the Volvo's headlights). I asked her what they do with the cars at the end of the show, and she said that they are scrapped! I asked why, and she said that the doors, seats and other interior fixtures take 12 years worth of abuse during a typical 1 week car show, therefore, they're treated as junk!