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The story about the Enzo wreck on PCH early Tuesday morning just keeps getting better and better. Escalating estimates on the speed, a dodgy past, rumors of stolen property, weird marketing tie ins and eBay. What else could you want?
Early stories pegged the speed at the time of the crash somewhere near 120 MPH but it's been drifting higher ever since (I was surprised it was so low). A Malibu Times piece today suggested the speed was well above 150 (but lost track of our mystery friend Dietrich). That's a heck of a lot closer to what I expected.
This piece puts the speed at 162 (do they really make such precise estimates?), delves a bit into Stefan Eriksson's history and discusses some ownership tussles with the Bank of Scotland. The real reason I linked to it was the collision between the story and an advertisement for Atari's new game CrashDay which comes out on Friday. No telling if the ad will still be there, but it made me laugh.
The side show to all of this is the action taken by Howard Dranow. He's selling a hose pulled from the wreckage on eBay (somewhere... I can never find anything there). On Saturday morning about an hour before the cyclists on the Tour of California start coming up the norwegian grade on one side of town, he'll be leading a pack of people down Decker Canyon to the crash site.
Posted by Dave at February 23, 2006 09:44 PM