Ferrari Faux Pas
October 29, 2008 by Matt Brogan
How do you make a Ferrari multiply? With the help of one of Adelaide’s infamous Stobie poles of course. A driver and his passenger somehow survived a crash which literally split a five-year-old 360 Modena almost in two when it hit the thick steel pole at alleged high speeds yesterday.
The two were being treated at Royal Adelaide Hospital for minor injuries, the same can’t be said for the expensive set of wheels, which is estimated to be worth $250,000. According to witnesses and reports in ‘The Advertiser’, the Ferrari was heard “zinging” down Walkerville streets before it came to a crashing halt just before noon.
The male driver in his 30s and his passenger walked from the car which met its fate on Lansdowne Avenue after the Stobie became the third front seat passenger. A local business owner said it was like the driver had “turned the streets into a racetrack”.
As far as write-offs go, this pole dancing Ferrari is at the thicker end of the scale, we only hope he had a good insurance policy and for that matter it was his car, imagine having to explain that to your mate!
Print it: 
Lucky for them the pole hit right in the middle, so the two occupants were saved.
I would take the engine and put it somewhere usefull (maybe in the R8?). I wonder if the gearbox can also be salvaged.
There are rumours that this car was on carsales, and this might have happened on a test drive.
Someone will be bleeding $$$ over this, and it won’t be an insurance company (this will be the easiest decline claim assessment job of the year :) )
Oh yeah,
Massa was driving and wanted to put the car on pole..
You should have the way they split the car during the divorce…
FRUGAL_ONE,
South Australians in general have the highest rate of road rage and single vehicle accidents.
Seattle down mate you are to wound up, relax. People are allowed to have opinions that differ from yours.
Crash investigators have just recovered the black box voice recorder (aren’t they fitted to all expensive cars). The last words spoken before impact were “Hey check this out Bro”.
Well there’s one Ferrari driver who ain’t ‘The Stig’.
“They where speeding, the insurance policy should be void.”
F-O, firstly can you use a spell/grammar checker ?
Secondly, if you actually read a insurance policy you would see that speeding doesn’t automatically mean your claim won’t be paid…
F-O – the self righteous git speaks again
Sad I missed yet another installment of F-Zero stupidity. Thats the one thing he’s not frugal with. Maybe he should re-tag himself Frugal with the Braincells.
As for the dead Faz, all the ones I see are being poonced about in by guys with perms, and/or Advanced Hair member cards. I’ve never in all my life seen a Ferrari driven hard apart from Simon Lingford’s 328 back in the day.
Jash
I am amazed that Adelaide is the only state with stobie poles. Yet another unique thing about this city.
Jash, just because you’ve seen someone with a bad head of hair driving a Ferrari doesn’t mean all Ferrari drivers are pooncers. Perhaps we should stereotype all Datsun GT-R drivers as well… pimply, cap backwards, can’t drive for Sh!te, wet dreamers with questionable methods of funding their purchases? Does seem a bit harsh to categorize everyone based on their car choice doesn’t it?
Gents,
I lived in Adelaide for 8 years and observed a lot of ordinary driving. For example, many of the drivers don’t understand how to indicate when changing lanes.
Here in Melbourne, the drivers are similar.
I think that we need to educate drivers and attend to apathy. Yes, apathy.
In relation to the Ferrari incident, it could be a combination of mid-life crisis and declining manhood. Sorry, only Harley riders suffer from this! (Well, one less in Geelong thanks to the Rebels)
Cheers,
Stephen
Dlr1,
Just commenting on my personal experience. Lingo was the only one with the nuts and skills to take one by the scruff of the neck and beat up on it. I see Faz out the front of the Casino and rolling through Northbridge on a Friday night, not being used in competition. They are boulevardiers here, which is a travesty. Because lets face it, if you have the money to HP one, you should have the money to fix it.
Datto’s – at least on this side of the country get used in competition rather than lapping Chapel St.
Jash
imagine having to explain that to your mate!
Imagine having to explain that to daddy!
awwwww Poor little rich Indian Boy did a boo boo to ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME CARS ON THE PLANET…uuiuuu preeeeekkkkkkkk.. (spelt wrong for kindness ok)
Not much screech marks, Did he even TRY to avoid the pole..boy o boy..
imagine how much its gonna be worth for parts. probably make more from it then what was paid for…. I have the seats thanks and put em in my datto 120y….
hahah…
so long slick Ferrari, we shall miss you…
Well atleast this car died with its throttle wide open, not suffering a long lonely death under the dust covers in someones garage until it was too old and fragile to drive like so many great cars do.
Now that’s what I call a “POLE POSITION”
Apparently the owner said after he got out to inspect the damage….”Oh My God where’s my engine,……..I think it disintegrated on impact with the pole”.
Some people have more money than brains, or in this case Driving Skills.
The Salesman, opinions are one thing, facts are another. No state has a monopoly on bad driving or bad drivers, but as a general rule the most arrogant, incompetant and law breaking drivers all live in qld.
If this was being test driven then I feel sorry for the owner, if the owner was “hooning” then he/she got all they deserve (apart from their injuries). Now do you agree speed isn’t the cause of accident.
Sad end of a nice car though.
What a tool…………..I think he was wearing his hat back the front Jash………..
I know you’ll be doing laps in the new GT-R if it ever arrives, round a track though!You so owe me after that last text I sent you baby……..hehehe
Hope Ferrari have banned the guy from ordering another one.
UM,
whats a “Stobie” pole??
Nice angle park there mate.. :P