The video begins with the freshness of a pleasant journey on the French motorway. It is recorded by anyone sitting in the passenger seat. And he says that with the driver they go to a mechanic who will check it out the Ferrari F355 in which they transit is able to conclude a purchase and sale transaction. suddenly hell. The protagonist himself is already on the edge of the highway to record a scene from Dante: the super sports car engulfed in flames, consumed in a few seconds.
It is not fictionbut it really happened. The protagonist of the video is called Tarek Salah. He is an Egyptian living in the United States as well he had traveled from Los Angeles to Marseille buy an emblematic model of ferrari since the 90s. The F355 was born in 1994, remained in production until 1999 and was a success, so much so that 11,273 units were built. In fact it was one of the models of the C.creeping endorsement that he got Diego Maradona, albeit in the Spyder version. This wreck was a coupe.
Since the operation has not been performed, in case you need to confirm it. On his Instagram account, in which he has just over six thousand followers, the Egyptian defines himself as a world traveler, entrepreneur, Porsche specialist, lover of Ferrarista and Nutella. He was tasked with disclosing the incident on his social media network just two days ago.
The incredible Ferrari fire in France
In the video, Tarek Salah talks about the sensations that every traveler can experience in the south of France, with the Mediterranean nearby. It’s just a few seconds. “It has always been my dream to drive a 355 on the roads of France”says the Egyptian. Regarding her car, he describes it as “very well maintained” and that it looked like she was being looked after by a “very meticulous enthusiast” who had owned it for years.
It sounded like a call to Murphy’s law. In any case, the calm with which Salah keeps the recording is impressive and, in tone, he tells how the Ferrari begins to be devoured by fire. The flames started from the rear, leading to the deduction that started on the engineand quickly took the entire car until it was completely destroyed when firefighters arrived to put out the fire.
Ferrari was silver and it was one of the first to leave the Maranello production line, in 1994, making it of even more significant value for the collectors’ market. It also contributed to its price that it had carbon sports seats. Therefore, the loss seems even more painful. Of course much higher than $ 130,000 which is taken as the average reference of the value of an F355.
According to Salah’s account, when they were inside the cockpit they started to smell fuel, which at first he attributed to the fact that it was “rich in mixture”. Inside the car, in fact, they had not noticed that the Ferrari was on fire, but they were warned by another driver who joined them on the highway.
Designed by Pininfarinathe Ferrari F355 appeared in the mid-1990s to replace the 348. Those were the times when these more massive models of the brand coexisted with the exclusive F40 and F50. It features a 3.5-liter naturally aspirated V8 engine, capable of developing 380 horsepower and a top speed of 295 kilometers per hour.
Shaquille O’Neal had his gray F355, in Spyder versionbut the most important celebrity who drove this sports car was Maradona. Diego’s was red and he used it to go to Boca to train in his last phase at the club. From the outskirts of Diez they sold it at auction in 2006. And in December 2018 the Gendarmerie seized this Ferrari in a mega drug operation and another 25 vehicles that belonged to a gang of drug traffickers.
Source: Clarin
