Anyone think there could be some missing supercars somewhere?

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A thought just crossed my mind... You know how post/mail sometimes gets lost right? Or someone just leaves SOMETHING somewhere... and eventually everyone forgets about it... well what's the chance of there being some shipping crate, you know one of those trailer things, somewhere in the world, holding a few f40's and an f50 or something, or maybe a 787b, or a couple formula one cars that people just forgot about? :p i mean, by laws of statistics, surely that's happened at SOME point?

Who will join me on a quest for this missing mega-crate? :sly:
 
You ever heard of cars being found in barns. I believe one of the shelby datona coupes was recovered from one. I also think I've heard of an xjss (whatever the roadgoing version of the d-type was) being found in a barn. "The" Silver Ghost sat in a garage of a former RR employee unrepaired, for many years, until he died.
 
This is hiding away in a barn somewhere in the UK. There are/were THREE in existence.

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Any guesses?
 
No clue.

I've heard of an owner buying an old Dino Ferrari model, and while the car was being shipped, he passed away, and the sale went 👎 .

So the car was left at the docks. From what I heard, it only sat there for 2 months until a Ferrari worker picking up another Ferrari saw it.
 
That's one third of them then. What is it, anyway?
I remember reading something about somebody finding a very rare car sealed up behind a wall in California somewhere. That's about all I remember though.
 
yeah i have that episode of topgear. im guessing that is the one they were looking at. someone else probably restored it but it could be one of the other 2/3. looks like the area from the topgear episode <8-\ what movie was that car in anyways? i want to see that thing in action.
 
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It's that car from A Clockwork Orange--and I think it's well known where the car is located, it was featured on Top Gear.
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Great movie, I thought the car looked better in the movie though.....

Was the car in the movie white?
 
GameBoyFX
we are missing This
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i don't believe $200k was invested in it, but it certainly looks beautiful. not sure about those wheels, but at 194mph, the only thing u care about the wheels is if they still have your tyres wrapped around them 👍
 
lol i dunno if there were any supercars, but a while ago a container ship sunk with loads of brand new cars on board. also near where i live used to be a warehouse full of american muscle cars but some damn chav kids got in and destroyed the lot 🤬
 
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lol i dunno if there were any supercars, but a while ago a container ship sunk with loads of brand new cars on board. also near where i live used to be a warehouse full of american muscle cars but some damn chav kids got in and destroyed the lot 🤬
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it was full of bmw's right? i heard there were some m5's on that ship...
 
In Kirksville Missouri, the owner of several hardware stores has an Original 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 sitting in a warehouse with only 6500 miles on it, AND a spare 427 side-oiler in the crate right next to it because he didn't want to have to look for parts if anything went wrong.


At the Marceline Missouri bodyshop, there's a lime green 1970 Chevelle SS396 with a bench seat and several odd options for a supersport model basically being used as a shelf for discarded auto parts.

Hey, the chrysler Norseman concept car is still on the andrea doria.... (if it hasn't corroded away)
 
There should be plenty of unused Porsche 959's in a warehouse in America someware.

Quoted from a 959 website:

The United States Department of Transportation and the US Enviormental Protection Agency refuse to legalize the Porsche 959. Reason being: Porsche AG will not provide up to 4 959s for crash testing. We all know the car is a street car, but without the mandatory testing, no 959 will ever be legalized.

Porsche built about 30 'US Spec' Sport 959s for US sale in 1987. The first 8 of them were shipped to Al Holbert's in Pennsylvania, where the EPA and DOT struck down hard and refused to let them in. 7 of the 8 were sent back to Germany with the other 22 to be held for the US owner to come drive in Europe. Most of the owners just put them up for sale in Germany.

The one 959 that remained in the US was legally imported. It belongs to Porsche aficionado Otis Chandler, who brought it in under a special US import clause that stated the 959 is for "Display Purposes Only" and cannot be driven on a track or on the street. It can only be displayed in Chandler's car museum in California.

Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft, has a 959, as does his partner Paul Allen. Supposedly those 959s are stuck in Customs somewhere in the US, although some people 'report' seeing him driving it around Seattle. Gates and Allen's are Comfort models which means they are not part of the 30 originally designated for the US market.* Those 2, along with 2 more were brought in by Bruce Canepa, who claims (but has yet to) certify them.

The three "legal" ones were located and the owners fined $50,000.00 (approx) and the cars are impounded and/or off the road.* There are NO US legal 959s.**Porsche AG has personally gone to court to keep the cars off of US roads.* The four cars sold Gates are still impounded.

- what a waste!
 
Porsche 959s are legal in the US under the "Rare and unique cars" law with minor modification to pass EPA rules. They are no longer in a warehouse.
 
I remember an autoweek article about a shut in millionaire who collected ferrari's only to let them sit in a wasrehouse. The only reason they found them was that recently the warehouse caught on fire. I don't believe any were damaged. I couldn't find the article.
 
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I remember an autoweek article about a shut in millionaire who collected ferrari's only to let them sit in a wasrehouse. The only reason they found them was that recently the warehouse caught on fire. I don't believe any were damaged. I couldn't find the article.
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The warehouse was destoyed in one of the Florida hurricanes. He was a real estate millionaire who had gotten into legal trouble and lost most of his money, but hid his rare Ferraris (as well as some old IndyCars and such) so that they wouldn't be collected by the state.
 

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