Why are so many F40s being STOLEN?
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2023
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Carbon McCoy explains that Ferrari F40s are the most stolen Ferrari and shares some of the craziest stories of the stolen cars.
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"I have a database that tracks all Ferraris" sounds like something a supervillain would say
😂😂 most definitely
Or a "fast & furious" type of car thief.
Yeah, sounds like something a guy planning to steal Ferraris would say
You'd be surprised how much information you can obtain from a simple vin number search. You just simply have to know what to look for.
Ed has a Database that tracks all Lambo's... and he's definitely got the supervillain voice ....
I remember going into the Ferrari dealership in Beverly Hills in the mid 90's as a 21 year old kid. I was a parts runner for Maserati, they had a pristine F40 in the show room and it literally stopped me in my tracks as I admired it for 10 minutes, The salesman was cool as hell and we talked about it for awhile. He looked around as it was a slow day on a Tuesday and said "want to sit in it?" Yes please... He gave me a good 5 minutes to look at over and to this day the F40 will always be the greatest car I have ever seen, I can still remember the smell of the interior and a little hint of gasoline a true supercar
F40 still the best. That must have been a very amazing experience back then
@@PaulWashington.. facts man I can't even imagine this 🔥🔥
I was in Florence, Italy when Ferrari had a thing about it for some kind of car event/show in the Boboli gardens there and I got to see the F40 and a few other legends up close, I didn't dare to touch it more than just a little stroke with the tip of my finger. Ever since, I always had a thing for it, and the Testarossa which I have sat in and touched a bit more, a few years later. To this day those are the magic cars for me, and the EB110 which I have only seen pass us on the Autostrada once. I like the Countach and Diablo too, but not as much for some reason. I'm what you'd call a 'Ferrarista con cavallo rampante nel cuore' in Italy.
@@noth606 it was amazing to be in the seat, I didn’t pull any knobs or twist any dials, haha it was so spartan there wasn’t much to touch it was more taking it all in
I likely know the guy who bought that car
I wonder if you can prevent an F40 from being stolen by putting Pontiac badges on the engine and steering wheel hub so thieves will think it’s a Fiero with a fiberglass body kit.
Genius
As good as it sounds, it couldn’t pass for a number of reasons. One being that Ferrari themselves doesn’t like owners tampering with the badges and emblems of their cars, and two being that the F40 is a much bigger car than that of a Fiero. Also three being that it would be hard to shoehorn a Ferrari V8 engine into a Fiero engine bay, but that’s gonna be what’s powering the car.
@@toxicmasculinity7870 they do put V8’s in the back of Fieros, and a LS with Ferrari valve covers sounds like something a kit might have …
@@EdDale44135 Yeah, but to make an LS sound like a Ferrari V8 is the challenge. You could make an LS sound like a flatplane crank V8 with a proper set of 180 degree headers, but not a Ferrari V8.
@@toxicmasculinity7870 8-1 headers boi
I'd like a update on the F40 in Japan that was shipped to Canada, and then shipped to the US.. seems like that one was under investigation, then fell off the face of the earth.
FBI must have confiscated and then crashed it.
Answer: Ferrari sourced the security system from Hyundai.
Or hyundai sourced the security system from Ferrari
@@Mr-pn2eh or both sourced it from some no named vendor off alibaba.
I dont see why more people dont use the club tbh.
Hyundai would probably provide a way to bypass a club on a Hyundai tho...
There’s apparently another UK stolen F40, there is a very grainy video of one doing donuts in a UK intersection, allegedly stolen by the same gang who stole the 40RA Lotus Carlton
In Birmingham of all places 😂
Where’s the vid of the f40 ?? Them 40ra boys must be OAP’s by now nearly
As a teenager in the mid 1990s a man who lived on our street had a F40 and he would just cruise all over town and he became a celebrity just because he owned a very special supercar ,it all came crashing down once it came out the motor was branded Toyota ,word on the street was MR2 ,once this was cerified by a mechanic hes status as a celebrity divebombed to a regular person
Haha, the classic fiero / MR2 conversion
I was a kid standing on the passenger seat of my fathers brand new 1995 Toyota Cressida in Riyadh Saudi Arabia we were about to stop at Red signal light and from the right side just beside us I could reach my hand and touch it a Ferrari F40 drove by us and turn right and Floor it. It was the best thing I ever saw and heard in my life
I was driving to LA back in February 1997.....driving my '95 GT Probe(her car, really).....rolling down into death valley(I was taking the paths less traveled so no interstates on that trip), first thing in the cool early spring morning......i had the cruise control set on 97mph(why 97mph?? no idea, just was...) I had been cruising into death valley about 5 minutes and....just happened to glance in my left side mirror, saw a headlight... and........WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH---and my car shook hard.....an F40, going(best guess) 150mph-ish passed me like I was standing still......it was Cali license plate "FER F40"
My GF who was in the other seat just laughed......
Never saw the car again....
Holy sheet, I remember that day well now you’ve brought it up. Flying through Death Valley in my F40, shades on thinking I’m THE man!! God I miss that car, I was devastated when it was stolen 😢
@@markrichards5928 ...what color was it...again>???
@@ssnerd583 Ferrari Racing Red, absolutely stunning. God I miss that car. Thieving bastards
@@markrichards5928 ....BZZZT!!!! guess again!!!
@@ssnerd583 ?? It was my car nerd, I know what colour it was
Fiero F40 is where it's really at.
I had the last year. Bought it used. The iron duke was a dog, but the suspension was good. Never tempted to F40 it! BTW, I hate the black line around the F40. Sorry, but it does look like a Fiero.
I was thinkin the same!!
@@jamesdellaneve9005 Typical GM. When they finally get something right, they immediately kill it. They finally allowed it to have the suspension it was designed for and then after sandbagging it for three years claimed that they couldn't justify continuing to build it. I've seen kits to V8 swap Fieros using one of GM's front-wheel-drive V8s with transaxle.
@@bwofficial1776 They put $32M into the suspension for the last year. It handled nicely. The plastic body was extremely cheap to redesign. It just hung on the space frame. They could have really improved it. The interior was typical GM crap. And that familiar crunch on the turn signal stalk. Felt and sounded like it was breaking every time you used it. It needed an engine for sure.
“Hey gotta an F40LM for sale!”
“Says here it’s stolen and not an LM”
“Mods can you please redact these comments and ban this guy?”
Kinda wild that message board drama can happen when the stakes are over seven figure sums.
I was once put in a position to steal an F40...
I didn't do it.
Biggest regret of my life! 😂
So if I steal an F40 this guy is going to be all over me like a bad rash?
Not if you do it properly my guy 😉
i mean, as long as you dont try to sell it at some point, youll be fine. keep it in the family lol
Pretty much 🤣🤣 he gonna be on you like a bad habit🤣🤣
I remember back in 2003/4,f40 still trades around 400kish usd,some collectors even brushed off f40 despite the last car under Enzo that thousands were produce hence, its not as strong or collectables as the f50 and the Enzo,ohhh boy....
Imagine if this guy put that much time into working , he’d have one!
Fucking LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FFS!!! 😂😂😂😂
Well so could you, and you don´t have one.
He explained very well, but definitely knows more just can’t say or else he’s in danger
I think he just wants to sound important
@@RumblesBettr exactly
😮😮😮😮….hmmmm
The F40 is the Halo car. Just for me. 😄What a sweet and timeless car. It will never age.
F40 is an insane car..... one of my relatives owns an F40... at the time I wasn't much of a car guy. I later found out it was the lowest mile car in the US many years later and probably the most valuable car I've ever been inside and experienced. I wish at the time I had a better understanding of truly how valuable snd historic a car it was! I have pictures in the car and with the car. My relatives son had bought it as an invest. I am not currently in touch w them anymore but man do I wonder what happened to that car.
I think at the time I was told he paid 700-800K for it. So at the least it was a very good investment.
Engineer Nicola Materazzi the father of the f40 had a previous Ferrari stolen, that's why you find in the f40 many locks around it.
Didn't help
I'd been wondering what Memphis Raines brother had been doing since gone in 60 seconds
Lets see you test Element fire extinguishers. I don't think they do any good after watching a few videos.
Southern Europe, basically anywhere near the Med’, is a hot bed for getting nice cars stolen, anything from a 3 series Bimmer on up. Always has been. Too close to some major ports to be quickly whisked away to another continent
An Element fire extenguisher sounds awesome! (Looked up a vide of it on RUclips since I had never heard of them.)
Ahhh. They don't actually work well at all. Awesome. Grease fire only made it worse after 30 seconds and the tiny wood fire that was less than a foot tall it couldn't extinguish. Wow.....
When will the VinWiki app be made available to the UK ed? Would be very useful and good to keep track of cars over here
2:25 Soestdijk is in the Netherlands. There was in april 2007 a huge meeting because of 60 years of Ferrari.
Looking at you Albania
Uday Hussein's Ferrari F40 has been totaled, it was not stolen it was being stored in the garage a few miles outside of Baghdad with a few of his other cars, the last time I seen that F40 it was being dragged down the highway back to the garage by a Humvee.
Engine,gearbox at least one of the axles three of the rims are blown.
The steering wheel was not an original, it was some cheap aftermarket thing and the seats were some kind of cheap aftermarket seats well.
I still have the pictures somewhere.
Send them to vinwiki and he might have you on the show? Bet there's a good story in there if you can back it up
@@7eis don't want to go unto it like that,picts with blurred people is as far as I would go.
"My recommendation to uh f40 owners....."
Woah buddy hold on, where's your F40? Lol
I had the opportunity to take a yellow F40 out for a quick spin in Brooklyn New York car was bought as a salvage and repaired ironically the owner of the car owned a salvage car lot in Brooklyn and he was arrested a few years later for switching vins on stolen cars I remember walking into one of his enclosed lots and I would see a completely totaled wrecked burnt cars and a clean one right next to it. Ferrari Lamborghini, Mercedes high-end cars I put two into together lol
There were a total of 1:03 around 1311-1315 made according to most experts and 213 included in that figure for the USA I had no idea there 1454 total made. Very strange
Maths be hard 🤷♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah Math is strange isn’t it? I am a student of old math lol. I thought actual production numbers were actually actual numbers. Go figure
@@thegtguy9215 Ferrari is known for building or rebuilding cars with the data plate from an original car that got damaged. Besides, the Italian carmakers have always been a bit lax about their bookkeeping.
@@bwofficial1776I think the F40 production numbers are very well known and the point I was making is that the actual production is 1311 not 1454. If there were 1454 I would love to know where those extra 143 cars are because they would be worth a ton of money. Or perhaps they were stolen. Or perhaps they are with the Sultan of Brunei 😂
Save yourself 8 mins: he doesnt know
Tell us you're a car stalker...😂
I would think stealing an F40 would be like stealing a painting from a museum.
It was a poster car for me as a child in the 80's, now in my mid 40's and I've seen 6 of them in the wild, and always take a picture. I even got to sit in one of them 😊
They cost 300k in Dupont magazines 😅 now our homes cost 300k 😅fml f40 crazy high prices
Bad advice on the club. Not saying back in the day me and my buddies stole cars but lets say Joy rides were the proper phrase. We would bypass clubs by sawing through the steering wheels as most were hollow tubes of aluminum wrapped in leather. Took 30 seconds with a hack saw. Do not buy a club, install an ignition switch that's hidden and one for the fuel pump if it's electric.
I just love the F40 with a solid helping of brake dust on those solid 5 spokes.
I feel like stealing an f40 in kuwait is not a good idea consequence-wise
Which of the Ferrari supercars is your favorite?
599 GTO all the way
SF Stradale
None of the above.
Testarossa
F50, for sure
Not sure if you were serious about "The Club" as a deterrent. Most decent thieves (if there is such a thing) would just cut the steering wheel and pop it off, and drive away.
I had always heard that it aids the thief in breaking the roll-pin to free up the steering and then they cut the steering wheel. Still love the F40!
@@rugu6869 you’ve been talking to someone that knows exactly what they are doing!!
Funny! - I was thinking of the Club just a second before it was mentioned. Hahaha !
How do I contact this guy? I’ve always heard rumors of an f40 burning in a fire local to me but wanted to find out for sure.
Fun fact: F40s used the same ignition locks as mid-90's Toyota Camrys
Does Mr McCoy have all the vin numbers for the 599 GTO? There were rumors of one with a special ordered manual gearbox built strictly for it, but the only piece of evidence involving said car is a fuzzy picture and it being Rosso
Few yrs back there is a F40 was stolen from a garage in Japan. Thief might found F40 location via Google Street View.
Thief didn't care other Ferrari they just steal F40. Unfortunately the F40 never found.
It's an old car of value, and old cars are easy to steal.
Got to grow up with one of these for 25 years. My dad is still the original owner of a 1991.
If I were lucky enough to own something like this I think for sure it would be an appropriate thing to install a multi layer Killswitch. Doing something like that would not affect the value at all and yet would stymie a number of potential car thieves.
Something like having two or three different mechanisms you have to trip before the car will crank. Maybe even a physical battery /fuel disconnect in a non-standard location that you remove when the car is going to be parked for a long period of time.
I would imagine that a stolen F40 would be extremely hard to find being driven around since they are so common and seen everywhere, NOT!
If you own a stolen F40 how do you source parts for it? Would you have to have access to a legit F40 and claim any parts are for it?
You can't get a replacement tail light at AutoZone and some random calling up Ferrari and wanting a replacement part would raise some questions.
You own a stolen F40 and need parts, where do you get them from………you steel another F40 and round and round we go.
Duplicated Vins,this isnt that unusual.Two same cars afterwards,but different places on earth,thats how it works and also get the stolen one legally registrated
Kia boys said, "Hold my beer."
There were twelve F40's stolen in my street just last week!
Yeah, the bastards took mine
Why are they being left out?
Club-Locks are useless to prevent your car from being stolen. My car was stolen in 1997 while having a club fitted to the steering wheel. They are not going to protect your car from thieves, they easily are snapped in half.
6:22 - "And today on the LockPickingLawyer..."
I was at the Ferrari dealership in the late 80s just to get a look at a brand new f40 on the showroom floor the window sticker was $399,000 salesman told me it was sold for 1.3 million dollars the gentleman was waiting for his living room rotisserie to be done so he could drive the f40 into his living room and have it rotate in circles.
“I have a database that tracks all Ferraris” sounds like you’re our prime suspect.
"I was VINdicated."
I see what you did there.
A hacksaw renders The Club useless when you can saw through pretty much any steering wheel in less than 10 seconds or less than 2 seconds with a cordless sawzall...
What color is your f40?
Great article but a crow bar will beat a club lock.
Interesting but how do you have so much time on your hands to make such a database
Decades of work
Try getting parts… it’s a nice motive
Take a shot every time he says "F40"
Ed, I'd like to ask nicely for you to try and convince Erik/Peloton25 to come talk about the McLaren F1🙂
A Club steering lock? Better off leaving the keys on the sunvisor.
The club? ever seen a hack saw used on a steering wheel?
If the insurance company agrees it was stolen, then it was stolen. U-huh. Italy.
Ed is the type of guy trying to buy a mclaren f1 but thinks about f40 lol ed😂😂😂
Lol Ed 😆
I thought type of guy comments are reserved for Doug Demuro.
Not just for doug
How does anyone own one without any tracker installed?!
Trackers can be traced and removed in minutes,most are stuck behind the dash because it's easy access to the wiring loom,and the installers are lazy,and given that most high end cars are stolen overnight from a garage the owner might not realise its gone for a few days,even weeks.
the F40 is the best looking car ever made!
I'm not a super car guy. At all. However, the F40 is a sight to behold. I dare say it's perfect. A true drivers car. Low tech. As it should be.
Dudes gatekeeping stolen Ferrari in for from 07 😂
I would think that is obvious why , they are valuable and desirable , and in short supply , perfect target for theft.
Great stories !!!!
I remember a Ferrari that was shot up when we were Iraqi. That car plus a few others were on our FOB. The seats even got put into a Hummvee. Supposedly, it was a Hussein owned vehicle. To add insult to injury a few other classic and collectibles were there and was used on the range for weapons qualification.
Best way to make an F40 disappear……start a Ferrari database and fiddle with all numbers??
Ok so the "club" is useless. A pair of bolt cutters takes care of the club.
Please don’t ever use the club, it’s key lock is extremely easy to manipulate
Just can’t picture an F40 with a Club on the steering wheel, how sad.
Nic cage and his mob stole one too
Now, I'm not one for conspiracies, but I haven't even watched the video, and I'm gonna say insurance fraud.
They must have had a trailer because you would break down before you get away with a F40
The Club?? A cross-eyed baby can get past The Club. There are multiple ways to vanquish The Club.
Very important database that cannot be shared with the world 😂
I’d like to go for a drink with this fella, he’s switched on. 🍻
Is there some kind of mafia in Italy stealing valuable things? If you have to ask you’ll never understand the answer.
What is more expensive now, F40 or F50?
F40 owners need to put a kill switch or if they don’t want to cut up they harness take out the battery
That’s 3%, my guy.
Mine is safe. Just bought a 1988 and its safe and sound inside my house. Under a light behind glass right next to a gto and my testarossa next to my TV.
Where is it that you live my brother? Asking for a friend
Did anyone else read the title in Ed’s voice by default
I wonder what the percentage of Escort and Sierra cosworths stolen in the UK
99.89%
At the time being there are 6 F40th for sale in Europe, 5 in Germany and 1 in Italy, yet only 2 of the 6 advertisements are trustwerthy. F40th may be rare, yet they over proportional often for sale (in % of its manufactured numbers). Overproportional often stolen and overproportional often for sale? You might call it a coincidens. I do not like it to call accidentially.
Sounds like someone needs to check Gru’s garage
Get carboom to tell us about the 355 spider that he crashed back in 2006
Hey there, Hutch
Quick question: is an F40 that has been stolen at any point less valuable?
Duh, same as any other theft recovery car
Depends on the "story".
An interesting history, good or bad, can add value.
Really?....the Club?......you cut the steering wheel and voila.......it's useless!
It’s a deterrent. Thieves are lazy by nature, they’ll just go on to an easier target.
My favorite Ferrari. There are Ferraris that are faster, but none of them are like THIS.
this guys beard is the most interesting thing about him.
Ed next car, Stolen F40 found in South America owned by former drug lord
Never meet your heroes… But damn I always told on these and the 355 F1