My hunt for the ABANDONED Hussein Ferrari F40!
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Scott from @Ratarossa tells the amazing story of his hunt for a Ferrari F40 that was abandoned in the desert in Iraq by Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, in Iraq.
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#FerrariF40 #SadamHussein #CarHunting
I remember about 27 years ago I went to dinner with my then girlfriends parents, on the way home her Mother told a story just like this.
Long winded and it went absolutely NOWHERE.
Just a suggestion, Jack. On this channel we use the phrase, "My (girlfriend/wife/whatever) at the time! I don't know why, but it does get people's attention? LOL❗
@ Greg can think of one particular V-W guest that applies too...
Was the mother as rich as this storyteller?
Imagine thinking you’re going to Iraq for an F40 and thinking it’s going to be easy
For THAT F40 too lol
It more like ANY F40 and getting it easy... Even if you had 1.2 million burning in your pocket, it's exactly easy to find a F40...
Almost cute
@@TheCoolDave there's one in the Ferrari dealer near me
When did he say he thought it was going to be easy? My impression was he knew it was going to be very difficult getting it out but naively went over there believing he'd be getting it cheap enough due to its poor condition to pay off anyone that stood in his way. Can you imagine how badly this F40 was treated? Omg i can only just imagine.
In 2004 I was in Iraq on patrol around the green zone, sadr city area and we pulled in front of a mechanic shop. There was a burned-out car in the street and it was a Ferrari 550. Nothing Ferrari identifying at all, emblems, engine, Vin gone. Body panels all still there except doors and trunk lid. Spoke to the owner of the shop and he said it was uday's and the people burned it right there. I searched for something I could take that would identify it but was unsuccessful. Had some major that was on patrol with us take a picture of me in it and he was supposed to send me the pictures. Never received them. Somewhere out there, their is a picture of me sitting in Udays Ferrari.
How do u feel now about the Iraqi war? Have u come to your senses yet years after?
@@NicotineRosberg Fuck Saddam Hussein, fuck Afghanistan. 3/5 Marines I served in Sangin Afghanistan and Iraq.
@@NicotineRosberg Jesus loves you
Jesus loves you
@yousef alsammarraie Awesome
Having been born and raised in Iraq, I wouldn’t even attempt to buy this thing.
I can appreciate the ambition, but if you thought this was going to be a 200k car with an easy process, you have officially lost your mind.
Great story though!
Hey!! Same here. بالحدود انعلس
What about it being in Iraq makes it so difficult to get out of the country?
@@Matty.Hill_87 politics and bribes .. the more popular something is. The more expensive it’ll be. But he’s white . Without connections. It’ll be pretty impossible for him to do it. He’d also get charged more being white and British.
Rarely anyone says these things in public. But it’s the truth. 🤷🏻♂️
This guy doesn’t understand other people’s cultures.
And then there are people still loyal to the family.
Who would kill you if the daughter asked.
@@Matty.Hill_87 American Dictator !!
So he saw a picture of a car on the internet, tried to find it, found out someone had already found it, tried to buy it and found out he can't buy it and can't afford the asking price so didn't get the car.. Bit of a boring story with an anticlimactic ending really. Reminds me of that weird guy you see at the pub telling stories of what his life should have been.
Thanks Ed and VinWiki for sharing the F40 story. It was an amazing treasure hunt for my favourite car. Update video on my channel as the car has now left Iraq !!
Not much of a story really
@@JtCoronaOnTheMic agreed
@@JtCoronaOnTheMic really? The story that brought him 50k+ subs and international interest is not really a story? It's actually a story that hasn't ended either...
Wish we could film a detail on it 😭
No one cares clown!
Love to see this collaboration.
I've watched all of Scott's at home Ferrari maintenance videos and I don't even own a Ferrari.
Same.
Most neglected F40....
Sultan of Brunei says Hi
This comment right here!!!
Believe it or not, all the Brunei f40s are in perfect condition and some were sold off
This guy's not exactly Pablo Francisco when it comes to storytelling. It took him 10 minutes to say "there's a car I heard about, and I never saw it in person"
Why is there always so much hate in vinwiki comments these days lmao, most people other than the crypto guy are decent
Takes practice. Seems like he will be able to tell some really good stories in the future now that we know all of the back story
Come on then cocky, let's see and hear some of your storytelling.
Everybody's a critic, which is 200x easier that actually doing anything.
He’s an Englishman, between the shit that comes out of their mouths and the back stabbing, you can only trust 3 out of a 300000 words.
I'm still waiting for the "hunt" part of the story... What I gathered was posted on social media, got info from GMG who actually hunted it down and physically found it
5 minutes of content frustratingly stretched to 11...
Who is GMG?
@@digitalsahil2586 gas monkey garage
And then expecting his subscribers to basically help fund an F40 for him.
This is the worst video ever on the channel. Ratrossa said the same things over and over and referred to himself in the 3rd person repeatedly. Had he got to the point the video would have been 2 minutes long.
Man this was a waste of time, kept waiting for him to actually tell the story.
We always love a good hunt for a car with crazy history!
Building an F40 is a much better story for Scott channel definitely, we can't wait for that series to watch !
To bad there was zero hunt and zero finding. What happened to talking to people with great stories that actually ended up with the car . These constant stories of shit that anyone could do sitting at home are boring and a reason alot of people have stopped watching this channel
VR ALEXANDERS PORSCHE CGT. WHERE IS IT? HOW DOES A CGT GO MISSING
Who actually comments for this channel? I need your first and last name along with your Full SSN.
this is definitely a man after my own heart!
I was in the area that car was in Iraq in 2005. It was in rough shape then. It was very close to where Hussein kept a private reserve of animals that were neglected and eventually escaped. Thanks for bringing that memory back.
Uday Hussein's car collection was mentioned in a phenomenal military podcast called 'Combat stories', retired Sgt Major John (Shrek) McPhee aka the infamous "sherriff of Baghdad" told the tale in his 2nd or 3rd appearance on the podcast. The man is an ex Delta operator and the absolute real deal, he brazenly exposed the very cloak and dagger saga. The best and bulk of the collection was all sold off illegally by some Green Beret SF team who needed to raise funds to finance the liberation of Iraq, no questions asked kinda cash for paying off officials and bribing warlords, buying friends etc. Selling the collection was easier than involving the Pentagon officially. He said the vehicles all went to private collectors, mainly in Europe from memory. Exported secretly via the SF group. Germany was mentioned iirc. They'll likely mostly be long in circulation by now, who knows, they got sold quick and cheap and with no questions asked! The dirty money was used in dirtier ways to achieve success in a very dirty business called war. Don't believe there are still supercars buried in the desert, some very switched on fellas took care of the lot and surely will be smiling on a tropical beach somewhere now, perhaps, I hope they kept a chunk for a rainy day? All this was actually just a tiny part of a bigger and better story big Shrek was telling about greasing the cogs of war during a far away conflict and bending all the rules to get a job done. Fascinating guy and I recommend you listen. Amazing eh?
So I wonder why they blew up Uday’s Lamborghini LM002?
@@reeceracing123 because who tf wants a lm002 might as well do something cool to it
John McPhee was never a Major General. He was a Sgt. Major. Also, a lot of what he's discussed has been embellished or discredited outright.
@@deadaimcarlos I quickly googled him while typing that up, to check his rank and that was what I saw. So it's me who embellished his rank (now edited from Major General to Sgt major) via a half assed un-thorough 10 second fact check. It's been over a year since I saw the podcast, gimme a break lol. War stories from various sources are always challenged by other sources. The fog of war. It's easy to have a different opinion of an identical event from another perspective in a moment, I doubt anybody could misinterpret a whole complicated drawn out timeframe and logistical masterpiece that liberating a fleet of supercars from a war zone would involve? I hope Ed can get in touch with McPhee via SOB Tactical and get the man himself on Vinwiki to talk about it. I feel like it's not a story that much more detail can be given about. Because repercussions. But hey... Shrek doesn't give a flying f**k what anybody says or thinks about him, he'd be the best guest ever! It'd be a very tricky edit for Ed but it would be absolute gold!
This sounds very , VERY interesting.
El Chapo McLaren, Hussain F 40- are both side-by-side at an unknown location…
Everytime I open videos like this, i keep hoping it's going to be Ed telling the story since he's so good at it but almost everytime, I'm disappointed because it's someone else
Likewise, I like Ed's stories a lot more
I mean, so am I but Ed will eventually run out of stories to tell.
@@aliabdallah102 thats true
Likewise, but since we’ll like him it’s better to help and enjoy other creator’s stories since it will help Ed’s channel
This guy is either terrible at telling stories or the editing was awful because the guy kept repeating himself. But I suppose that's what you get when you need to turn a six sentence story into a 10+ minute video.
The misfire with peacock calls in background :D
If that doesn't scream 'barn Ferrari' nothing else does.
I'd rather have a car with a cool story than one that sits. 😆 imagine that as a conversation piece "this was Sadams F40".
It wasn't Sadams it was his despicable sons, that raped killed and tortured many people. I wouldn't even want something he owned.
Uday's
actually it belonged to Uday Hussein
Saddam’s psychotic son
that's not the flex you think it is, look up what Uday was actually like and you would regret owning his car.
I didn’t think I could dislike Uday Hussein anymore after hearing the paint job story
You guys need to visit sultan of brunei ferrari collections.. they say a lot of cars is rotting in the borneo garage
Anything the Husseins have touched is something I wouldn’t… Uday was maybe the most sadistic human in recent history
New owner: My car
Iraq: Our car !
US forces blew up Uday's Lamborghini LM002, one of 328, to demonstrate the power of an IED.
Uday was an arrogant and spoiled man but not as what the media propaganda machine describes him to be.
@@Adam-gf3jg what?
@@Adam-gf3jg he literally tortured athletes after tournaments if they didn't perform as well as he thought they should. He murdered a family staff member when drunk because he didn't think the staff member was being respectful enough. The verified, factual accounts of the terrible things he did are numerous. He was a sadistic and twisted person who deserved no mercy.
I love the part where some old lady makes a threat and everyone quivers. Thanks Ed and VinCo.
Seriously. Is she still alive?
She’s using the Hussain name to make threats forgetting that they are nobodies now
@@ChrisBeevor0511 Let's see. Saddam: executed. Uday: killed in a gunfight with American forces. Qusay: killed alongside Uday. The Hussein family doesn't have a great track record at staying alive.
What is the point of this story? He came nowhere as close anyone else to the car yet he frames as if had some secret exclusive access to the car. At least with Ed's CGT story, he had an access no one else seemed to have, yet on this boring ass story, not only it goes nowhere with the plot, but also completly lacks any context to the car itself.
Crazy thing is I’m a truck driver and I just saw an abandoned F 40 in Laredo Texas what are the chances of this video being uploaded the same day I saw one
Neglected doesn’t exactly mean abandoned, go back and get it and I bet someone shows up at your door.
Anyone else get fed up seeing this same story told over and over again by the same people
Don't click? Ever think about that?
This guy CANNOT tell a story holy shit he restated the same couple things like 5 times each
These are the odd stories that make VINwiki such a great channel!! Wonder what the future holds for this f40?! It’s a shame it has to run in that condition
These are high risk gambles. Being cautious and knowing right people. Goes long way
Has anyone see the movie "the devils double"? I wonder how accurate the hussein son ferrari scenes were.
I always wondered that myself! I know, early in the movie, he drives a Mondial....I would be shocked if Uday was in one of those. However, later on he has a 348 Spider which was 1000% a car I could see him in
A travesty abandoning this car, it deserves to be driven. I know someone in the UK that uses one as a daily driver, no garage queen!
There a guy in the Bay Area that have a olive F40. He drives it all the time lol
I think we need to hear Gas monkeys story of hunting this thing down in Iraq. This guys telling a story about what happened whilst he was sitting on his couch
It's unfortunate that those involved didn't manage to procure the F40, but I am glad to hear they all escaped alive from the attempt.
It's safe now
The guy restored it in uae
These are my favourite Vinwiki stories
This video reminded me why I only watch Ed’s videos. This was a terrible story along with his terrible accent almost in watchable
I recall trying to buy a car once and the guy wouldn't sell it.
Same thing.
Reminds me of US soldiers blowing up a Lamborghini LM002 for fun in Iraq thinking its a piece of junk only later to find out its one of the rarest SUV's that belonged to Uday.
I am from erbil, I have seen the car once driving around, it is a beauty. I know exactly where the owners house is ( the one with the circular driveway), I caught a glimpse of it once when he had his garage doors open, other than that I do not believe that much people have seen it
صدك السياره وين اني بس سامع بيها بس من يومها مختفيه
When I saw the tittle I knew it was Scott.
I was just about to say "I bet it was Erbil" when he said it. Erbil is actually a big beautiful city. Apparently a rich city too.
I imagine it was in Mosul or Tikrit, and was moved to Erbil.
Erbil remained mostly stable throughout the war.
Hearing that F40 run hurt my soul! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Indeed sounds like a VW beetle..
Sacrilege
@@stuartd9741 I was cringing hearing a beautiful car sound like it was on 4 cylinders 😰
@@rhdbmw9361 yeah don't sound good.
Think Scott dodged a bullet with this one....
@@stuartd9741 true for 1.2 mill. Now if it was any cheaper, someone will jump on it just to even have the body of the vehicle and the story attached
I wanted to buy a car.
I made a video about it. "It went viral".
I googled a lot and found pictures of the car.
I didn't buy the car.
FFS. Zero story here. This guy is 100% not an Ed !! Less of this please.
This guy said the same story around 5 times. This video should have only lasted 4 minutes.
I really like Ratarossa's channel.... but jesus.. he is the single worst story teller this channel has ever seen. I mean, talk about repeating yourself over and over.. this video could have been edited down to 3 minutes.
As an iraqi and a citizen of erbil, even if you bought the car for 10 million you just took the car from a guy who is not the owner since the car has no title it’s just an imaginary thing between you two 😂 you can’t in a million years take that car outta iraq
Like they say its all about who you know and who you blow.🤷😂
This use to be a good channel, Wht happened
Nonsense word soup. This guy is making it all up.
There’s also a Turkish article about this car. It has been shipped to Istanbul at some point in its life for a long due service. Official Ferrari dealership in Istanbul runs VIN through the system and it comes up as stolen from Kuwait. Car gets confiscated by the police and sits in a yard for about a year or so and no one claims it. After a few court cases, the car taken back by the importer who temporarily imported it to Turkey for service. I’m pretty sure someone out there should be able to tell the technicality of the whole Istanbul story or i can pull some Turkish newspapers from archives.
Servis fotoğrafları ben de var. çeken kişi tanıdığım birisi.
The movie "Three Kings" with an automotive twist.
I dont have the funds but speaking of f40s there are still likely several of those cars still in brunei. Now recent stories showed his mclaren f1 gt going to the UK. It didnt look too bad but he obviously knows the value of the f1s and i assume that goes for the f40s too. The one i want the most is the alleged black f40 lm with the red pinstripe.
Seriously? That was the worst story ever. You heard about a car you didn't buy. I'm on the edge of my seat! 11 minutes of my life I'm not getting back.
"anyone who tries to take that car out of Iraq will face consequences..." lmao, ok lady.
yeah
like that would really happen, because the Hussein name is not very feared or respected anymore
They stole the country and now the car
It's very cool watching this knowing the car somewhere exists in my country rn I follow many pages people posting all cars around Iraq I never saw anyone post the f40 its known he had many others like the lambo that blew up or the famous 500 sec which looks beautiful and I think still exists to this day it belonged to his son auday
Let’s play Ferrari F40 Geo-guesser
Uday Hussein was certainly a “colourful” character 🥴
Good film based on him called The Devils Double for anyone interested
some of his cars are still sitting in the. Desert some at customs. He had had some rare cars. And a rare yellow bmw. And Mercedes and Porsche
No one said that finding an F-40 would be easy. Let alone bringing it to the USA
Im form iraq in 2010 when i was young i saw it it erbil and at the time they told they sold it for 280k $ to someone and till now it's in erbil Kurdistan north of iraq and it's working the last video was 3 years ago and i have the video if some one video and it's 1/1 the wheels have lume they golw at night and some specially designed parts
And the car originally belongs to udai the oldest son of sadam hussein
I never understood why they allowed glorified goat herders to buy such special vehicles they knew they would be mistreated
@@michaelf.2449 it's working and running fine
This guy rambles on more than a Zeppelin song, get to the freaking story already!
I usually like these car stories but fucks sake - talk about turning a 60 second story into a boring, overly long non-story. Saddam’s son’s car is in Iraq and despite it being a desirable model, nobody wants it. Done. Next.
half way into story and all this guys has - 'we tracked down this car'. boring. start at 7:00 if you value your time.
If I was buying it cash in hand while the car's still in iraq, i wouldn't pay more than $250,000. Too many unknowns. Like....wayyyyy too many
There's also a 87 Benz that somewhere in the Middle East that's owned by Saddam
Another 10 minute nothing story.
This channel used to be about people who had the cars at one point. Not this tall story shit.
Anyone with a computer and time could have gained the same information.
No one cares about a story of a car that the story teller has never actually seen or touched or owned.
This was a cool story! The Hussein connection reminds me of an episode of Past Gas from Donut Media where they talked about this collection
Another great unicorn story was Ed 's hunting for mysterious drug dealer - McLaren F1..
I can’t stand donut videos, James ruins all of them lmao
@@paulcarmi8130 yes. His outbursts are ridiculous.
Jesus Christ man.... Just get to the damn point. 4 and a half minutes in and he's just wrapping back around to where he started. This guy is painful to listen to.
This guy talks like a UA-camr. Nothing to say so just say the same thing over and over to act like there’s a build up. No story telling ability.
Less abandoned, more had its owner very righteously killed by the coalition for being too evil
I was casually offered to buy an Aston Martin Vanquish at a police station in an East African country in 2009 for USD 50,000 - in cash, when I passed by for some other reason.
Besides a lot of dust and a broken side mirror, it looked to be in great shape and fairly new. Police officer guaranteed me I would get "all the proper paper work, dont worry". Turns out they had confiscated it from thieves that had stolen it in South Africa, then driven it up north. Doubt the insurance company or owner in SA ever got to know about it..
No thank you, too hot a potato for me.
F40, 427 AC Cobra, Countach 5000 QV, Split window 63 'Vette...I'm a simple man....with simple desires. I'll never own a single one (aside from posters) but isn't it nice to dream?
That speaker was torture listening to him
The fact he’s referring to himself in third person as his channel name is kind of cringe 🥴🥴🥴
For those of you that may innocently wonder into a video about Uday. I advise the faint of heart to steer clear. To put it shortly, he was such a monster that even Sadam himself chose to remove Uday's birth right to his doctatorship. If Sadam thinks you are a monster, you know that you're really really messed up.
No matter how gripping and interesting the car or the back story unless it’s Ed bolian or Doug tabbutt then it’s not worth listening to
It must be very bright inside that studio.
The guy who owns the car live a couple of blocks away from my house and has a bunch of ude's cars
Another disappointing car hunt story like the F1... Sadge
All of those guys had collections. I know that Ben Ali of Tunisia had a W124 AMG and a new 599GTO that disappeared after he was ousted in 2011.....
wish i could hire car guys like bounty hunters lol, Im looking for a Stampede Wrestling Dynamite Kid pennant, been searching for years, I bet a car guy could make a couple calls and find 10 lol
That was a nasty comment by the daughter of Saddam Hussein.. Perhaps she is slow to realise the family's days of power are no more.
yeah
that ended with Uday and Qusay getting turned into hamburger from a few 25mm ‘Bushmaster’ cannons and Saddam getting hung
I love a good hunt. This has parallels to my '70 Challenger rtse that found me again.
This sounds interesting
There is no substance or story here. He just blathers for 11 minutes
...one story i've heard is the Army found Uday Husseins Lamboghini LM002, and used it for 'target practice'😭...
not sure if its true, but i've seen pics of a shot up, destroyed LM002...is this a true story?
I'm surprised it wasn't shipped to the US, on a C-130, in 150 crates.
Hey dude i am in Bulgaria and ur cars dont look wonderful haha
Whole story would take 8 seconds to tell.
I mean shit bro I’m Iraqi can speak it fluent if your really serious my grandpa used to personally know sadam. We can prob find it tbh
Some people worked through the plandemic. I took on a 2nd job due to the economy. Thanks Brandonites😘
All these videos always feel like ppl just beat around the bush to tell a simple story…
Sadams daughter just be sending threats on twitter 🤯
I think it would be the coolest f40 to own. Maybe gold plate it
Great story , painful storytelling.
I'm from Kuwait, I believe I saw it in the junkyard or some other F40 but, I kid you not it looked 100% similar
I saw that car in an Iraqi police station in 2010
Some of the BEST stories are about the ones that got away. I think at some point Ed was going to Gallivant around Mexico City looking for one? 😂
Dame he keeps saying the same thing over and over
Well Done Scott @ratarossa - I watched it all, wide eyed and buzzing on redbull mate 👍😂
What's up, Ciro? How are you doing, mate? I enjoyed the, "Cars and Copters" teaser you posted recently. I do hope that you have more content to post on this fantastic event! It was a great event for a very good cause brother!
@@theanomalous1401 it's coming soon, but 24hours in Dallas is dropping in a couple of hours mate
A friend of mine found uday's Porsche 930 when he was over there. I asked him to take it apart and ship it to me. :) He didn't.
I actually remember when this story first started to make the rounds. About the same time I started following Scott.
And was this the most sketchy F40 of any car ever owned by any autocratic despot sadistic son.
Welcome to the twilight zone. LoL