It seems all too often these days there are headlines of people with more money than driving skills wrecking some of the world’s rarest supercars. In March 2007 Redline star Eddie Griffin made such news when he wrecked a 2003 Ferrari Enzo, but luckily the story has come full circle with the damaged Enzo being nursed back to health.
According to Jalopnik, Texas’ Matt Groner has pieced the Enzo back together over the past several months and the car is now up for sale for a cool $1.3 million.
Although this particular Enzo’s journey could be up for the feel good exotic car story of the year, it almost never materialized. Groner – who typical buys wrecked top-end cars and sells them as is – had some problems prying the car from the hands of the previous owner and was on the fence about mending the once-great supercar. However, once Groner learned that the Enzo’s repairs were limited to bolt-on components, we went ahead with the project. $300,000 worth of parts and seven months later, the Enzo is once again road-worthy.
Groner notes that the $1.3 million price tag isn’t well below the asking price of most original Enzos, but added that his car has a story. “A pretty cool story though,” he said.
08/14, 1:25 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
New bolt-on parts cost $300,000? I’m suprised that he didn’t take the shell and make a one-off custom out of it. Of course who in their right mind would want to pay 1.3mil for a supercar wrecked by “undercover dumbfvck”?
I’ll never understand it.
08/14, 1:52 PM
posted by:
jonmiles
Yeah, I second that. I’ll be blown away if anyone actually sees value in that particular “history”
08/14, 1:56 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
This car has instant stardom history! It was written about in an article on LLN! And some of the world’s greatest dumb@$$’s including myself commented on it! So where does the bidding begin?
08/14, 1:57 PM
posted by:
jumpoffit
i’d buy that for a dollar!!
08/14, 1:58 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
^^^^ Isn’t that from the commercial in the movie Robocop?
08/14, 2:01 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
Man… that brings back memories… I haven’t seen Robocop in like 10 years.
08/14, 2:03 PM
posted by:
Mr. Piston
It’s probably has a inline four now.
08/14, 2:08 PM
posted by:
jumpoffit
hell ya it is Hemi
08/14, 2:15 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
I can’t believe the bad guy in that movie is the same guy from That 70’s Show. Everytime I see a commercial for that show and I see the dad, I think of him in Robocop with that wise @$$ new york accent busting caps and just acting like a bad @$$ in general.
08/14, 2:29 PM
posted by:
ktulu
which eddie griffin?
08/14, 2:39 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
The black dude that’s funny as hell.
08/14, 2:52 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
I didn’t know that there was more than 1 Eddie Griffin.
08/14, 3:01 PM
posted by:
mayer_ray_nagin
Hell, he isn’t far from Nuevo Laredo. He could have taken this thing down to Mexico and had some Virgin Mary’s and crosses and stuff airbrushed down the side to make it look a little tolerable.
But first he’d need to get that hideous red color scraped off and paint the body a nice shade of beige or champagne.
08/14, 3:08 PM
posted by:
Fletch
It will sell for about 1.1mil. First of all, there were not many Enzo’s produced, 2nd, there are not many for sale.
08/14, 3:17 PM
posted by:
MugenSentraKen
======>>Fletch, excellent point.
08/14, 3:22 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
Yes indeed Fletch… I do imagine it’ll fetch about a mil… then go sit in some enthusiast’s museum drained of all fluids… never to be touched again.
08/14, 3:29 PM
posted by:
Cobradreamer427
Eddie Griffin rot in hell and thank god this man saved such a great car.
08/14, 3:29 PM
posted by:
hbcbob3
I never knew there was a “funny” eddie griffin…
08/14, 3:31 PM
posted by:
Fletch
I did an autotrader search and there are 2 Enzo’s for sale in the US. They are asking 1.5 mil for one with 682 miles. The other price is unlisted.
08/14, 4:07 PM
posted by:
nitinsharma1000
Thats nice that this car lives to fight another day. Hate to see rare exotics destroyed. Spec old ones.
08/14, 4:21 PM
posted by:
tripleonefive
White she devil made him crash the car
08/14, 4:31 PM
posted by:
jumpoffit
i hate seeing exotics destroyed also, i visit wreckedexotics.com and cry myself to sleep
08/14, 5:57 PM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
That Enzo is nasty. Griffin should have demolished it beyond recognition.
08/14, 6:26 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Doesn’t change the fact the dude can’t drive for sh!t. Still, they should’ve left the Ferrari as it was. Nothing says “slow down” better than seeing a wrecked exotic car on the highway…
08/14, 7:38 PM
posted by:
Need4SSpeed
Yeah, it probably will go for close to a mill, so even though he payed $300,000 to repair it he could potentially make a $700,000 profit… Not too bad I must say…
08/14, 9:17 PM
posted by:
josh
Sweet news! Now it’s ready for take 2!Hmm, Wheres Eddie???
08/15, 1:24 PM
posted by:
injunraiv
That’s nothing. I have the Volare Peter Griffin wrecked…
08/15, 3:17 PM
posted by:
doublearon21
at least someones trying to save the enzos.
08/15, 10:09 PM
posted by:
sharpie
“A pretty cool story though” – Who are you joking? These days everything has a “cool story!” The Enzo is a cool car, but that story is definitely uncool and un-$1.3mill-worthy.
08/16, 2:16 AM
posted by:
deutschetouring1337
I wouldn’t touched a repaired Ferrari if it was given to me, you can “fix” carbon fibre. Whoever buys that piece of garbage is a moron, I’d just take the engine and brake system.
08/17, 7:10 PM
posted by:
nowei
Eddie Griffin really doesn’t deserve to bashed for crashing this car. Unlike most rich and/or famous idiots he wasn’t driving like an ass on public roads just to stroke his own ego. He was driving on a closed track for a film. And if you’ve seen the video of the crash one of the first things out of his mouth after the incident is “brother can’t drive”.
And is anybody really surprised the car got repaired? I’d be amazed to learn that any of the crashed Enzos were just left for scrap.
08/18, 10:52 AM
posted by:
DriveCritic
Definitely not a cool enough story for a prospective buyer! I don’t see the problem in finding a buyer for this Enzo but probably not at the asking price though.
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08/18, 4:13 PM
posted by:
Z06ified
Yeah, I dunno how cool of a story that is. Wrecking a supercar is not cool at all actually. Not to mention, why would I pay a premium for a car that’s been in a wreck? Griffin isn’t that much of a celebrity.