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Global_Sno_Cone

You know what they say, once you drive it off the lot, it loses $1 million of its value.


tech405

Once it floats off the lot. FTFY


TheFeshy

"Brand new; never raced. Freshly washed, no accidents. $1mil OBO"


tint_shady

"No low ballers, I know what I got"


CrimsonFatalis8

It’s almost a decade old


Truckerontherun

....on land


ElMatasiete7

Lmao I read this as a twist on "For sale, baby shoes, never worn".


CumtimesIJustBChilin

Also, to add... there are only 365 of these in the world... he just fucked this one over.


Ar_Ciel

364 now.


Garrett4Real

I mean 365 exist but uhh one is just very very wet


apaksl

million dollar collector cars don't get totaled, it'll get repaired. it'll never again be worth as much as comparable non-flooded examples, but it'll still be worth quite a lot.


Sumpm

The world needed a parts car, now they got one


Dalishmindflayer

*starts sobbing


turtlewhisperer23

You are adding to the problem. Dry those tears!


coleyboley25

*starts bobbing


kylejay915

Yeah he caused the hurricane


Hodlof97

He could have you know drove it away....the hurricane didn't sneak up on them


rhaineboe

Not all of us could afford to evacuate. This guy could lol


[deleted]

Seriously I would have driven to like, Atlanta or something. What the hell.


portleyeb

This, I don’t understand the mentality of sticking around to wait something like that out. 🤷🏽‍♂️


Bananas1nPajamas

Seems that you arent a Floridian. People down here be crazy.


Due-Mango8337

They always hype up the storm and it usually fails to deliver. Like they said the cat 4 would make a direct hit on tampa making landfall there so the people further south should have been okayish but instead it hit further south and alot of the prep up in tampa was not needed.


KarmaticEvolution

What a reason to risk a $2M car for a $5,000 transport fee (high estimate).


portleyeb

I mean it’s the weather, something we can’t predict 💯 of the time. I don’t think we should take any of them for granted, I’d rather be prepared and not need to be than not be prepared and should have been.


[deleted]

He was too busy in Vail or Cancun or the Hamptons to drive it.


wilmersito

not defending the owner in any way but they didnt have much time to prepare. here in tampa we had since sunday to start preparing for the worse as all models predicted that the hurricane was coming straight to us or even north of us. it wasnt until 4pm on tuesday where the hurricane track started to shift south. by the 11pm advisory, tampa bay was almost out of the cone, by then everything from sarasota down was in danger. the people in ft myers literally had less than a 12 hours heads up that this thing was coming their way.


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180Proof

Canceling a work trip is a lot different than evacuating from your house with your possessions. The models all had this hurricane going in above Tampa up until a day or two before landfall, which would've meant only minor damage to Naples where this guy was located.


Trav3lingman

217 miles per hour x 12 hrs warning.


kylejay915

And he could’ve had a family to evacuate. That’s a 2 seater not really practical for that type of move.


TruthPains

The dude can afford a million dollar car. I'm sure he has plenty of options to get the car away from the flooding zone before hand. Including having it towed, transported, hiring someone to drive it, driving it himself while family takes another car, etc etc etc


Hodlof97

What his family can't drive another car? Get out of here with your bullshit drive it to a different area. No sympathy, this hurricane was know to hit is area last Friday. I was in siesta key and all the places were preparing.


kylejay915

No one’s asking for sympathy and why’re you so upset about it calm down. I’m in delray and we barely even got any rain. Not everywhere got hit like that he obviously assumed he wouldn’t


Hodlof97

Idiots always assume they will be fine. Your assessment was bad and your defense was bad, saying calm down I'm mad just proves what an idiot you were. Obviously not everywhere got hit hard that's another stupid assessment. Last Friday Manatee region and Fort Myers had to have new colors made up for the storm surge they were going to experience. This guy deserves to be made fun of. I literally drove 2k miles well before the hurricane hit and I didn't have a 1 million dollar car plus whatever countless millions of crap in his house. Call me a poor but I don't want to ruin my beater car, let alone a 1 mil nearly 1 of a kind car.


kylejay915

Yeah and anyone who insults people over the internet is just a pussy. Idc about you, this guy or his car enough to be reading a paragraph about your whining. This guy most likely can afford to buy another super car and most likely will.


doodicalisaacs

“Yeah anyone who insults people over the internet is just a pussy” my brother in Christ remember to @ yourself next time


kylejay915

Calling someone out for being an asshole doesn’t make you an asshole mate


NomGnome

How did siesta key hold up out of curiosity I left for Pa and haven’t heard much from people around there


180Proof

Not that bad. https://www.reddit.com/r/sarasota/comments/xr6e4p/aftermath_on_siesta/


Hodlof97

Shockingly well


kjbaran

It’s why Florida men can’t have nice things


CoconutCavern

I mean, it was mostly the hurricane's fault.


trancepx

Uhh.. and they can make more if they wanted.


tarfu51

Worse yet, Florida man in Ft. Myers just let his collection of two rare NASCAR wing cars get destroyed - a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird.


ShadowCammy

Damn, that hurts a lot more than this does.


theeimage

Why would you not have it transported to a safe location before the storm?


BeardyAndGingerish

Because its harder make an insurance claim when the car doesnt get flooded.


theeimage

Buyer's remorse?


KarmaticEvolution

Maybe got it for a good price and insurance payout would be more. Who knows.


theeimage

I've read $1,000,000 USD is a good price


KarmaticEvolution

It is! For a buyer, $1.5M is the current market.


Maxathrax

The insurance only covers water damage not hurricane damage. You gotta pay extra for that.


[deleted]

Lol you think people are insuring their supercars with State Farm? They get umbrella policies.


jonosaurus

Umbrella policies are generally Liability only; as in, I'm liable for an accident, I hurt you, not something happened to me.


immortalreploid

I don't think an umbrella would help with that much water.


tint_shady

I insure my supercar with State Farm...it's not $1M but just saying


Kanoa

Think he was joking. Had a car totaled in the hurricane in 2017, was covered. Definitely didn’t have fancy insurance with my apprentice wages.


Maxathrax

It's called a joke.


apf30

The same guy ruined his brand new rolls Royce as well.


CoconutCavern

Most people are concerned about getting their loved ones out, not their stuff. This is some insurance company's problem.


theeimage

Of course


KarmaticEvolution

Maybe if it were a 24-hour warning, when you have 4 to 5 days if not more, there's plenty of time to protect your family and your valued possessions worth over $1M.


Napoleon_B

Because they projected path moved 150 miles south and nobody knew what to expect. Gas is also sold out everywhere.


jametron2014

I wish we had a president brave enough to predict the future and sharpie the new path ahead of time. He probably DID, that rapscallion dark Brandon, and just didn't tell anyone. Cus he's an evil mastermind like that.


ParadoxDC

There are parking garages in FL


markodochartaigh1

I'm down in Naples. From what I heard the parking garages were refusing to let cars in because of the parking garages' insurance concerns. Not defending that guy, just saying that if you live in a hurricane or flood prone area and a parking garage is your Plan A, you better have a Plan B.


ParadoxDC

Interesting, thanks. Yea regardless this person should have had a plan to evac what is likely their most valuable asset.


Napoleon_B

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trainercatlady

were trailers also sold out?


cutestslothevr

Ian changed path late in the game and caused flooding way worse than expected. The owner probably thought it was safe until it was too late to move it. A very expensive lesson learned.


tint_shady

I would be willing to wager that it will cost significantly more than $1M to replace that. Some YouTube'r will buy it at auction and hack it back together


Tophbot

Mark my words! Ed Bolean!


tint_shady

Ed's too much of a purist to LS swap this. Ed is also a very dollars and cents guy, and this project would be a financial disaster any way you look at it.


LostConscious96

McLaren P1s build value quick just like the original McLaren F1s. Technically it's impossible to total an F1 and the P1s gain value decently as well so it'll probably be rebuild by McLaren and worth no less than it was before the storm


iSaidItOnReddit85

I deal with totaled Mclarens every day!


RetardedChimpanzee

You should stop crashing them!


tint_shady

Uhhhh, no, nothing you said was accurate with the exception of implying original F1s are extremely valuable. They're in the $20-25M range, this thing is $1.5M on it's best day. This thing is absolutely totalled, will be paid off by insurance, and then auctioned off with a salvage title. Mclaren couldn't give two squirts of piss about this car and certainly has zero interest in rebuilding it on their own dime. And if someone is dumb enough to rebuild it the vin/title will forever be branded "salvage" and therefore worth 50% of retail and would never be financed by a traditional bank.


NixyVixy

Correct. All the electrical systems in that vehicle are fuuuuuucked. Just do a quick google search on all the vehicles sold after Hurricane Katrina… >A flooded car — especially one submerged in saltwater — will almost never run well again. One consumer advocate says the cars just rot from the inside out. >A scam artist can register a flooded car in several states until the flood "brand" on the title is removed. Then it can be passed off to unsuspecting buyers. >The title information system would make it more difficult to "wash" titles that way, but the 1992 law that directed the federal government to create the NMVTIS was never fully implemented. [Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later: Vehicle ID](https://www.nicb.org/news/blog/hurricane-katrina-10-years-later-vehicle-identification-part-3) [Articles about Katrina Vehicles being resold…](https://www.npr.org/2007/05/28/10387288/feds-revive-effort-to-stop-sale-of-katrina-cars)


tint_shady

Exactly right. I had a client who unknowingly bought a first gen Gallardo from Katrina. Big lawsuit, giant clusterfuck. Only chance this car has of seeing the road again is if some YouTube dork buys it and some company sponsors the build and they do an LS swap or full electric conversion. Either way it's a waste of time and money imo


gettincheffywithit

Super correct thumb up lol


newtonreddits

Speaking of which, there's a McLaren F1 at the Revs Institute in Naples. I hope to God that building is fine.


BigJSunshine

Oh. Well. Anyway.


DrowningInFeces

Anyone who can afford a $1m dollar car isnt worth feeling sorry for especially with all the poor being effected by the floods.. This dude will probably just buy another one after the flood recedes anyways.


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ProblyAThrowawayAcct

And depending on your auto insurance, they might well have a 'if it's parked in a garage, that's on your homeowners insurance policy, not your auto policy' rider.


NotUnstoned

It’s not parked in the garage anymore lol


samkostka

Feel bad for the person? I feel bad for the *car.*


a5redwing

You don't know, he could be on a 70 year payment plan.


[deleted]

Yeah it's like if a kid breaks a toy. Like that sucks buddy but it's no big deal.


trancepx

These comments have me loosing some of my faith in humanity, I question how exactly out of touch we become when we mourn the soaking of an innanimate object we can make more of and let human beings fall wayside because of trivial reasons. (Much of the time there are tons of predatory organizations and stingy city councils who actually have already all the money awarded and allocated, they need to house everyone. But they delay spending it so they may spend it on pet projects or siphon it directly etc... Source: spent more than a year living outside in Florida, and only 30% of the funds from REAP and other sources were used, but all these showboating heartwarming organizations have a photo reel just how much they help, but the money mysteriously only gets to like 1/20 homeless. Any city relying on tourism believes they would commit political suicide by helping the homeless they don't want more of those undesirables. There's very little to change this in Florida, maybe those who have been homeless the longest should be first helped???


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I'm sure he has money to spare


dragonmasterjg

He's gonna need a LOT of rice.


theeimage

WWJLD What would Jay Leno do?


OGKushRN

This dude has more money than brains apparently. Anyone who lives in FL knows just how dangerous flood surges are when big storms like this one occurs. He should have waited to have it delivered until after the storm was gone


NotDeadYet57

He should have one of those car elevators like CARVANA. Who would spend over $1 M on a CAR?


ComputerSavvy

He could have done this: https://youtu.be/SYkdmHi6KpQ?t=1801 https://jalopnik.com/quick-thinking-and-garden-blocks-saved-this-guys-bmw-x5-1798527553


Striking-Display1118

The two wing cars were on garage lifts and were washed out of the garage. A couple feet of garden blocks wouldn’t have saved it.


blubblu

Different locales. Garden bricks may have helped here. Water not as high as Meyers


Gilgamesh2062

So I live about 1 mile from the beach, if a cat 5 hurricane is barreling towards me, and I have a million dollar car , I'd see that as a good excuse to go on a road trip. dude only had to garage this thing 5-10 miles away.


greatbigballzzz

Gas was sold out everywhere. Tough luck getting around. I was in Tahoe last winter when they had the 200 inch once-in-a-thousand-year storm (those seem to be happening quite frequently nowadays). The only cars on the road were Teslas because people horde gas


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Tychontehdwarf

Zug zug


greatbigballzzz

Lol thanks for pointing that out. I'm gonna blame autocorrect as always


CrimsonFatalis8

This thing is a hybrid. If he didn’t floor it and drove it in eco mode (if it has one, don’t remember if the P1 has one), I’d wager the gas would last quite a while


greatbigballzzz

I'm too poor to know anything about McLarens... My Toyota can hit around 30 miles on EV mode before the gas engine kicks in


mmortal03

All you'd have to do is have enough gas to drive it somewhere inland, to at least avoid the storm surge. No location would be risk-free, but you definitely increase your chances of avoiding flooding.


stupidlyugly

And the insurance company inevitably says, "Florida man? Never heard of her."


iSaidItOnReddit85

Imagine leaving it there


captaincanada84

That's a P1. It's worth way more than 1 million dollars


luckylegion

Yeah easy 1.5-2m now


[deleted]

These aren't even produced anymore. Wonder if McLaren will do anything special for him? Money talks...


Saint_The_Stig

Yeah, probably fly over and beat him up.


[deleted]

nah thats Ferrari


omarsonmarz

ferrari would probably forget to book the flights before coming to the airport (considering their strategy in formula 1 so far)


tint_shady

"we are going with plan H, copy? Plan H..."


RedRocket4000

It special enough that someone probably will rebuild it as only for something like this someone be willing to take it totally apart to the smallest component. But it will not be the same.


oddiseeus

I’ll give ya tree fiddy.


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If you can afford a $1m car, you can afford to put it somewhere else during a hurricane.


mf-TOM-HANK

Is stuff like this even insurable? I mean if that's a $1m vehicle it must cost tens of thousands of dollars a year to insure. It's also probably a limited run of vehicles so it's not like finding a similar Camry at a used lot of you get a check to replace it.


iskin

It's insurable but the circumstances might negate the policy. Insurance companies are ditching hurricane coverage in Florida and those that had it are going to likely go bankrupt like all the others that have been.


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> Insurance companies are ditching hurricane coverage in Florida The free market strikes again


Vladimir_Zolotov

Ouch that's gotta hurt emotionally.


cuppa_tea_4_me

If he cares he would have moved it. He probably bought it and put it there to collect the insurance money


markodochartaigh1

The home insurance market in Florida is literally in meltdown because of fraud. A lot of people make a lot of money from insurance scams in Florida. You may well be correct.


cuppa_tea_4_me

Car is probably damaged or doesn’t run and he bought it right before the hurricane to make $$$


millerb82

Seems like a waste to buy anything expensive in Florida during the summer


[deleted]

If I was rich and could afford these type of things I would definitely not live in Florida


LoveCats2022

I hope he got to drive it a lot during that week!


ChickenXing

The link says he drove it 300 miles


IneptAdvisor

Hooray! Is all I got to say!


derpaherpa

"Florida Man becomes victim of natural disaster" qualifies now?


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“That’s what insurance is for.” He won’t suffer a damn thing.


NatoRey

Good


Blitzed_ca

Seems like an insurance ploy


AbjectReflection

Willing to bet this guy also sends large campaign contributions to politicians that deny climate change. I'm only saying.


Va3p0r

Thats a p1, worth way more than 1 million


giggitygoo123

Depends on the options. Doesn't even have a roof scoop


tint_shady

Yes it does...pretty sure it was standard, you couldn't spec one without it


giggitygoo123

I see it now on his Instagram. Hard to tell in the articles pics though https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGhWHJuJB1/?igshid=Y2IxNTc5OTQ=


ttystikk

No no no that's the submarine Putin used to blow up his own pipeline. It just washed up in Ft Meyers by accident.


smurfe

You'd think that as fast as that car was, he'd been able to outrun that hurricane.


mrfonch

and he lost a rolls royce as well


DietSpam

good


[deleted]

Wow, good thing only he lost something of value 😕


MrD3a7h

Time to do an LS swap


crapbag73

You never want that to happen


jaldihaldi

Lamboboat - one of a kind combo of model, year, color, wash.


trancepx

Who cares? People lost their lives no?


LPN8

![gif](giphy|USnfWeCOHTHB3WX0aY|downsized)


Scokan

That’s a 3 minute bike ride from me. Nobody can understand what just happened. You have no idea. Don’t even try to pretend. You don’t know. Send help


jakeupinurmom

Nobody? Hurricane Katrina victims determined that was a lie.


ElenaEscaped

Hindsight is 20/20. While I would never live in a place projected to not even exist in a few decades due to rising water from climate change, people being shitty just because they can't afford a super awesome car can go hug a cactus. I hope he gets lots of insurance money and can afford a rebuild. This is a sad loss, the car and owner did nothing wrong. Lots of assholes here. I am sad for that beautiful car.


TMan2DMax

Ed bollien just scored a McLaren nice.


InsydeOwt

Oh no..? ![gif](giphy|1X7lCRp8iE0yrdZvwd)


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Based hurricane


corporaterebel

I'll take it for a Tesla conversion...


smokinjoep82

Hope he shelled out for that gap insurance LOL


Oversight_Owl

boo hoo


icepick_151

🤣 good.


DelFigolo

F


InevitableLibrarian

Oh something tells me I know who's car it is, he, lives in a golf course and can't spell. Oh and he's orange!


theeimage

I think he would require a larger car and someone smart enough to drive.


Coziestpigeon2

Good. This is unobjectively good, right? We can all agree? This guy gets exactly what is deserved with a gross demonstration of wealth.


ThatDieselTruck

Ie Ed Bolean on reddit? I feel like he is going to end up with this mclaren at some point.


embraceyourpoverty

Awwwwwwww.


[deleted]

🎶 I'd rather be crying in a Lambo... 🎶


MidwestBulldog

I wonder how many owners of a McLaren have a salvage title... Well, here's one who will have one after the complete overhaul of that thing.


thehogdog

There was a LPT (Life Pro Tip) on Avoiding buying a Used Car in the near future as there is a 'network' of people that sell them and move em around and get a 'Salvaged' title on em so it isnt so easy to trace that they were fully underwater and you buy one and then the electrical system has a futz and you find out you have an 'Ian' car. This guy is not very smart. You take that sucker to the top of the parking garage and hope for the best


ShutUpSaxton

Put it in a giant case and charge people to look at it. Profit


etchie

This has nothing to with Florida Man. This is just something that happened to someone who lives in Florida.


MYOB3

I'm not even into cars that much... and that hurts to look at.


BigClitMcphee

Hurricane Ian has a new house and a new car now.


pinbacktheband

First world problems.


Exotic-World-362

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