Man Steals $729K Ferrari After Test Drive

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ferrari_heist_1

 

ARDMORE, Pa. - Where do you hide a $729,000 Ferrari during rush hour? That's what police in the Philadelphia suburbs want to know, after a con man drove off with a red Ferrari F50 during a test drive.

 

 

 

The Ferrari F50 — which can hit 60 mph in less than 4 seconds and tops out at 203 mph — hasn't been seen since.

 

 

Police theorize it was hustled into a trailer and quickly shipped overseas for sale on the black market.

 

 

The company made just 349 of the eye-popping Italian roadsters — described by one car-enthusiast Web site as "part Batmobile, part ballistic missile" — in 1995 to commemorate its 50th anniversary. It was designed to be a street version of a Formula One race car.

 

 

The thief, a nattily dressed man who claimed he had flown up from Atlanta and had a limo waiting nearby, took the test drive Sept. 16 without producing a license. The ID, he said, was in the wallet he had left at the airport.

 

 

The salesman from Algar Ferrari in Rosemont first took the prospective buyer for a spin, then let him get behind the wheel. During the test drive, the man — clean-cut and sporting a shirt, tie and apparent Rolex watch — pulled to the side of the road and asked the salesman to drive back to the dealership.

 

 

When the salesman got out, the thief sped off.

 

 

Police were summoned, but never spotted the vehicle. Now they're looking for the con man, described as a 6-foot, slender white male with reddish-brown hair and glasses.

 

 

Lower Merion detectives believe he had help.

 

 

"This took a lot of planning," said Det. Charles J. Craig, the lead investigator.

 

 

Police are also exploring whether the case is tied to similar Ferrari thefts in North Carolina and Long Island, N.Y. 

 

 

You know as much as I hate thieves after reading that all the guy did was dress in a nice suit and told the salesman that he left his ID at airport and then said salesman went ahead and still let him drive the FERRARI makes me say the dumbass salesman really had it coming.

 

Hell if I know I could get away with doing that like the thief did I'd ALMOST be willing to do it myself.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

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[Youth N Asia 0]

I heard about that a couple of days ago. Anyone with the balls to pull that one off deserves the car.

[Guest El Satanico]

eh...with proper planning you wouldn't really need to have that big of balls. As long as you've got level headed do it by the books guys pulling the con that is.

 

If you don't act like a jackass, it would be rather easy to disappear with a car, even a high profile car like this. Pull a trailer into a alley nearby...batta bing it's gone in mere seconds.

[Ced 0]

This reminds me of that scene from the Simpsons where Homer tests drives a car while trying to come off as a dignified gentlemen, floors it, stops, and gets away with the free spa resort tickets in the salesman's pocket...except this guy got away with the car.

[Guest Choken One]

if your going to steal car for yourself...don't steal one people will easily spot...

[Guest SweetNSexyDiva]

That is classic.

[Youth N Asia 0]

That car's probably long overseas by now

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

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