Car Crash: $2 Million McLaren F1 Supercar Suddenly Flames on Road in California [+video]

It happened on June 1, 2009, near Airport Boulevard in Santa Rosa, California, when the owner took out his McLaren F1 after six months of storage and an onlooker alerted the owner to smoke coming from the engine bay. The fire spread quickly and consumed the carbon fiber body work and the 627HP 6.1-liter BMW V12 with horrifying efficiency. You lure over to take the looks and the next thing you know, the car is up in flames.

Reporter in the video below explained that the McLaren F1, which appeal an estimated $2 million but was allegedly insured for $3 million, was an undamaged passing.

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Pretty sad if you judge that from a whole of 100 McLaren F1s, only 72 were boulevard cars (plus five F1 LM versions and three street-lawful F1 GTs). The enduring 28 line cars built for reserved customers competing in the FIA GT sequence and the 24 hours of Le Mans.