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FEBRUARY 2017 WWW.PNWR.ORG 49 new bodywork. As with Condition 8, there could be value in the identity of the car. The current practice for high value cars at this stage is to save the bodywork or chassis that has been replaced as part of the provenance. The "barn find" 917, chassis 024, would also be an example in part because that car had no engine (see the October 2014 Spiel for the full story). Condition 8 At this level, a car would be considered a total wreck, needing everything to repair and probably unrepairable. It would likely have many important parts missing. A mass-produced car at Condition 8 would certainly be scrapped and any usable parts taken off to be used on other projects. As we have seen with some barn finds, particularly in Europe, a car in hopeless condition might still be valuable if it is rare and desirable enough. There might actually be value in the identity (a chassis number, a few frame rails, perhaps an engine block). In these rare cases, it might make sense to re-create the car around a few existing pieces and carrying the chassis number. This has happened occasionally with racing cars that were completely destroyed, but re-appear with a chassis number and one or two original items. We may see an example of this in 2017 if the Porsche 917 ch005 re-appears. Chassis 005 was destroyed and the owner/driver, John Woolfe, was killed in it at Le Mans in 1969. There is a project going on in England to re-create the car with a few remaining original pieces. These kinds of projects are more accurately considered recreations than restorations in our opinion. Another condition 7/8 example would be the infamous Ferrari Enzo (#ZFFCZ56B000135564) of Stefan Eriksson that was famously crashed on a California Highway with the supposed "driver" fleeing the scene. The car was broken in half and it's fair to say that any normal car in such a state would have been sent to the crusher. This Enzo was eventually sent back to Ferrari, reconstructed (reimagined in some ways) and sold for just under $1.8m at auction in February 2016. Still another interesting example was the Bugatti Type 22 in Lake Geneva (won by Swiss Playboy Adalbert Bode in a poker game). It was disposed of in the lake by Swiss authorities when Bode could not pay the import duties. Recovered from the lake in July 2009, the Mullin museum paid approximately $350,000 for the car at auction in 2010. continued on next page Ferrari 3589GT Barn Find. Photo provided by carbuildindex.com Ferrari Enzo of Stefan Eriksson. Photo provided by latimesblog.latimes.com Porsche 917 – Chassis 024. Photo provided by Gooding & Company.

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