Should Ed buy the flood P1 or the Prince's stolen & crashed P1?

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‪@EdBolian‬ talks about the dilemma of bidding on the flood McLaren P1 vs another car currently on the market.
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#McLarenP1 #HurricaneIan #FloodCars

[@tavarish]

I'd have both.

[@K1llSw1TCH97]

SAME

[@supercarlover848]

@@Shauma_llama very nice idea

[@russelljacob7955]

Be more work to fix that than it was to fix your LT. Entire wiring harness and hybrid system is junk. Every aluminium part and other metal part will be beyond repair by time can service it. Wheels will corroding. Brakes fully redone if usable. All your lines and fuel system. Every computer will be dead. There will not be a decently serviceable part on that car. You are in florida and know what the salt does. Imagine a P1 that is winter driven in chicago. That is what car is coated in.

[@ghoultty25]

U should def buy one of ‘em and fix it, it would be amazing content.

[@robwaters8848]

​@@russelljacob7955 I'd argue it would be even worse than a Chicago winter car. This things been just saturating in a corrosive liquid for days (as you mentioned via work needed).

[@danielroddy8146]

Flooded P1 is perfect for Ed. The wrecked P1 is perfect for Freddie.

[@Gearbhall]

I would agree, but a flood hybrid is something I don't think I could personally ever trust.

[@ginobenedetto4943]

@@Gearbhall lol, it's a hypercar. You can't trust it from the manufacturer.

[@victorpineda9179]

Id got for the wrecked instead of flooded electrical issue , plus battery needs to be changed Houston crosta gave his review on the flooded one

[@Shauma_llama]

I was thinking that :)

[@scottmoore6131]

It’s not wrecked anymore.

[@officialdadbrand]

Turn the P1 it into a Boat! It already has 100 plus hours on the water.

[@ListerMotorsports]

That's actually a very good idea !

[@cooperjackson5840]

Yep, borrow parts from the new aquatic cybertruck LOL

[@imchris5000]

its perfect for the speed boat conversion you would have the fastest car on the lake

[@officialdadbrand]

@@cooperjackson5840 smart thinking!

[@officialdadbrand]

@@ListerMotorsports 🙌🏼

[@jptak1969]

Love this channel. Just moved to the ATL area and had the pleasure of bumping into Ed at a local cars meet this past weekend - and it was quite interesting to see that he is a real storyteller even not behind the camera (I wondered if this stuff was rehearsed or planned or... but not the case. I can sit and listen to this guy tell stories all day long.) Love it - keep these going Ed!!

[@MonoPedB]

As soon as the first pictures of this car hit the wires, the ENTIRE interwebs immediately hoped Ed would buy this car

[@ViceCityNightcrawler]

I have a clip of the P1 on my channel and the owner was pretty chill about the whole situation considering he lost a P1 and his Rolls Royce ended up on top of a Honda

[@andrewb8548]

The flooding was primarily from rain, was NOT primarily surge. We got so much rain, every river flooded. People got stranded because they were keeping an eye out for surge and they got flooded from the other direction.

[@Retzah]

I feel pretty bad for the owner of the P1. A lot of the first articles that I saw about the car really made it look like insurance fraud. Where he set it out in a parking lot and just let it sit there during the hurricane. Until I watched Houston's video, I didn't know that it got completely swept out of his garage and floated away.

[@BeaverEJ1]

Still reeks of fraud. If I knew a hurricane was coming I would have been driving my 300k mile Honda out of harms way let alone a newly purchased P1.

[@johncena-hq1ti]

If anyone actually believed that they’re definitely idiots. The dude literally posted the car with 4 feet of water in the garage

[@floydj.907]

A couple of lifts would have saved both cars..

[@mrmartin2079]

Why didn’t the owner just pay to have it trucked or driven away from danger ?? - the warnings were there surely Ho couldn’t have moved his million dollar house but he could have with his million dollar car ( s)

[@angelmessinger522]

@@mrmartin2079 The Insurance company should make him EAT the entire deal. $10K and it could've been removed from the danger zone.

[@sleepeatdrive7619]

I live in Fort Myers, FL. Thank God my family and house are ok. My AP1 Honda S2000 also made it through the hurricane safe in my garage since we didn’t get flooded like the P1 did!

[@GTSCarLife]

Hurricane Harvey was the deathknell for Texas World Speedway, in College Station, TX. The property was rented to store untold number of flood damaged cars, and the resulting damage to the track made it undriveable. Shame about the P1.

[@mehdimahoui9295]

Tavarish would be the best candidate for this kind of rebuild, the car is some sort of continuity for his 675LT Project, pretty sure he has the best knowledge about these car since he rebuilt from the ground his 675LT

[@adambeatty6995]

Car was not bought off of Bring a Trailer, the car no-saled. Was sold at Gulf Coast Motorworks in Bonita Springs.

[@Nate0493]

The flood P1 would be cool to remove the hybrid system (expensive to replace) and make it a non hybrid P1, just like the GTRs!

[@SpeedyManCharles]

As soon I saw the pics of that P1 a week ago, my first thought was "Where is Ed Bolian?"

[@cousinjohncarstuff4568]

An idea for Car Trek! Limit of $10,000 to spend on a flood car. Who can get their flood car up and running once again for the lowest amount of $? Put them through challenges and see how many still hold up. Then put them on an auction website, and see which one brings the biggest profit, or least loss as the case may be.

[@paultastic]

From Cape Coral, sister city to Ft. Myers and love to see our name in the news, even if it's not the most uplifting story. Flooding missed our home and buissness by less then a foot and we can't be greatful enough. Thank you for the story, have fun in SWFL!

[@Yes-qc7qt]

Saw this car for sale earlier this year before the flood for 2.3 million

[@jrodsumpthin7516]

Keep in mind... The original owners didn't plan on that car not being on thier life. They took something off. Significant to them. Significant to the car. That will keep that car in thier collection.

[@SkipperReu]

Flood P1 no doubt mclaren will help out as it is in their hypercar series and want the most respect for it

[@adasterdezaster2865]

Ed, the best way to fix a saltwater car is to sink it in freshwater for a week. We do this to seaplanes that sink in saltwater. The freshwater flushes out all the saltwater. It works.

[@jaycee8748]

If the price was around the 100k mark it would make sense trying to get it fixed and running but with the amount of money you could still make selling the parts I doubt it will sell cheap.

[@Lazarus1940]

With love, look into the wrecked P1. That flood car was in salt water for one, and who knows what else.

[@Af_4600]

Hey Ed! I’m from Fort Myers, if you’re coming to SWFL could you organize a car meet for the VinWiki fans?

[@Law19157]

It's crazy though because this P1 is now the most famous P1 so it's a must have for somebody. If McLaren can restore Rowan Atkinson's wrecked F1 to factory condition they can restore this P1

[@lboogie3171]

P1 would be the Ultimate Build back to life.. and Travish already has experience 😁 in fixing them. Pick up that Rolls while you at it too 😁

[@Ryan66437]

Given both cars will need battery replacement, I'd say choose the car you think would make the best story/you can get the better deal on. The flood car would be the better story I think long term. The already repaired crash car would probably be the better deal, short term.

[@sandasturner9529]

I'd probably buy the flooded one. Rip out all electronics, possibly do a power train swap

[@gmaccormack420]

Koenigsegg regera chassie 7235 was also a victim of the same hurricane

[@FreelyRoam]

P1 owner has a new yellow speedtail now.

[@petiquettecartel]

Ed using his platform to throw off potential buyers 🤣🤣🤣 Let the bidding begin

[@colinbrassington3192]

I believe the question we should be asking is ‘Why hasn’t Ed bought the flood P1 yet?’

[@marks8068]

A nice flood car is the gift that keeps on giving for years to come!

[@TheRealMisterChopShop]

Nice story Ed 😊

[@kavinskysmith4094]

So Elvis the P1, or a Crash Repaired car that might need going through, Crash Repair, those mclarens are held together with 3M sticky tape, poor grounds from factory, and a carbon fiber tub, basically imagine a lotus, made to be as quick as an F1, and that's what you've got or well, take the flood one, strip it, and take the crash repair and put its bits in the flood car granted your probably talking 4 million dollars at that point.

[@FencelineFilms]

I'd really like to see this car saved.

[@zachg9065]

Mclarens are already an electrical nightmare, add water and then its impossible.

[@scottmoore6131]

Get the princes car!

[@judtsomeguy12190]

The flood one is just way too risky

[@jimbrown9885]

I assume the "should" in the title isn't asking for a yes or no opinion. Lol.

[@Smosis]

Is it sad that the first thing I thought of when I saw the flooded p1 is that it’s per few car for Ed to buy..

[@VINwiki]

That seems to have been a popular thought! And it isn't sad at all

[@theanomalous1401]

​@@VINwiki Thanks to fellow travelers on KZbin like John Temerian and Rob Ferreti. We have a new term to describe a certain type of used car. The "Ed Bolian Special"!

[@landynharper5825]

The owner of the flooded p1 already bought a volcano yellow speedtail to replace it

[@noonehere1793]

Well…..sitting on the toilet helped to get the sitting water out more quickly!

[@lexalford358]

I don’t think that packing it in rice will help it maybe if the rice had a anti corrosion substance added to it

[@beck4rl]

So CarTrek 9 is Ian salvages

[@416jr]

That’s Ernie’s P1 … he won’t sell it to you , now insurance mabey

[@isaacshively5976]

Buy them both, use the flood car to rebuild the wrecked car.... Wrecks are easier to re-sale than flood cars

[@AllDayBikes]

I knew soon as I seen the video of that on a storm channel, that I would see it here on VINwiki lol

[@logan_kes]

New car trek “Hypercars for the price of a new hurrican”

[@krazykozey2259]

Ed buy the Florida P1 and bring to me and I'll go through the whole car and salvage stuff most wouldn't consider saving...

[@andysheppard9727]

Surprise edd hasn’t heard about the crashed enzo in Guernsey (uk)

[@ferrariowner123]

The guy just took delivery of a speedtail....

[@control2791]

I saw the P1 in a Jalopnik Article and thought.. This is the car for Ed!!

[@toddburgess6475]

When I saw the photo last weekend I said ed will end up with this one . There is also the rolls?

[@SaltyChip]

Whoever owns junkyards in Florida that isn’t underwater is about to be the BubbaGump Shrimp of junkyards!

[@chriscaliri7977]

He’s gonna have to settle with the wrecked one cuz from what is going around the grape vine is Houston committed to buying the flood car. Whether that goes thru or not who knows. But I still tagged Troy in it so he would tag you 😂

[@jordanyockey]

I forsee Freddie ( tavarish ) buying the p1 for a rebuild series for sema next year haha...

[@TravisHargiss]

I lost it when Ed said "put it in rice or whatever they do" 🤣🤣🤣

[@bobmcl2406]

There ain't enough rice on this planet to save that one!

[@Nic7320]

That only works on Asian cars ;)

[@scottmoore6131]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too. Lol What are they going to do buy a couple thousand pounds of rice and put the whole car in or just pull all of the electronics and wiring in rice!

[@djmilkyway33]

Same 😂 he said it so nonchalantly too lmaoooo

[@forbiddenera]

IKR!

[@elmayimbe_the_amateur_mechanic]

Mclaren+water? Einstein would not be able to figure that thing out.

[@franklast7955]

It would be relative

[@kai_444]

tavarish has entered the chat

[@MrHondablink]

Salt water is sooo much worse than fresh. Then add this electrical socket into the mix...... Wall art is about it.

[@FrankDBoyce]

​@@MrHondablink yes, but come on the content would pay for it in 2 months. For both Ed and Tavarish it would be their biggest videos ever

[@elmayimbe_the_amateur_mechanic]

@@spiffyspider123, you'd have to use a flat plane crank though.

[@MrNake96]

"Water damaged McLaren" might be a new term for being unreliable. "Don't ask him to do it, he's as reliable as water damaged McLaren!"

[@prashanthgowda545]

Hahaha! Nice

[@josephavino7786]

*salt water damaged*

[@jrfish007]

Flooded P1 for Ed + wrecked P1 for Tavarish + and cheapest clean title for Hoovie = CarTrek 12

[@julianramirez1836]

Fast forward to the Spring of 2023, let’s all give Freddy Tavarish Hernandez around of applause for buying the Flooded P1 and even started to rebuild it!

[@kellyscars]

My heart still breaks over the pictures of the Daytona and Inverted Superbird that got messed up from Ian.

[@theanomalous1401]

You and me both, Brother! McLaren's and Ferrari's are special cars, but at minimum, they only built one for every 2 dealerships, to meet Nascars rules for being allowed to compete. So yeah, it was a bad week for Gearheads everywhere!

[@bwofficial1776]

I saw a picture from one hurricane. A guy had parked his 911 on giant inflatable bags and floated it above the floodwaters. If I lived in a hurricane-prone area and I didn't have elevated parking I'd absolutely have some giant airbags on hand.

[@oldlud8971]

They're fixable. At least they didn't get washed away into the sea.

[@gagefraw3182]

I knew the guy who took care of those cars. He was getting choked up telling me about them. Really sad.

[@kellyscars]

@@gagefraw3182 I know Rawlings was wanting to buy them. Saw the footage of the Superbird at Mecum. The tub is pretty messed up, but it still looks drivable!

[@EdBolian]

What could go wrong?

[@alextrittschuh2190]

Nothing😂 go for it

[@jono6379]

Send it to Lanzante and have them turn it into one of their convertibles. Would be expensive but it also would be unique.

[@conrad.creations5058]

yesss

[@arizona_surron4302]

lol

[@Gamertrix117]

Was there last week for the 10 year anniversary. Some phenomenal examples

[@venaautos]

The moment I saw the P1 on Insta, I knew it would be on Ed's radar!

[@FVPS904]

You know you have connections when your talking to the owner of the most viral car days after the storm

[@vijayshelke6565]

Buy the p1 and convert it into a race car with just the motor without hybrid system just like Houston from royalty exotics said

[@chesspiece81]

Houston already talked about the P1. He said it took $800k to fix the Bugatti and being the P1 is a Hybrid would cost more than the Bugatti to fix.

[@BlinkyBill_]

nah would be about the same Buggatti parts are stupid expensive alot of the shit in a P1 is the same as 720 the hyrbid system comes right out of a senna so there is parts available

[@Ebraheem_Bambotia]

@@BlinkyBill_ the Senna doesn't have a hybrid system. The hybrid system in the P1 is proprietary

[@jsquared1013]

@@BlinkyBill_ the P1 is more closely related to the MP4-12C/650S than the 720, and as Ebraheem mentioned the Senna does not have a hybrid system at all.

[@bobbyrbmg4370]

@@BlinkyBill_ no it would be way more than the Bugatti Houston already went through it

[@bobbyrbmg4370]

That was a great video. Super informative

[@midnightmonty]

"You put them in rice or whatever it takes" in that semi-straight face made me laugh

[@hannahramos2869]

Failing investment. But the flood. Epic story

[@velvetjones1856]

This is a hybrid car with lots of electronics and batteries that don't like water - especially salt water. With this in mind, a crashed car may be easier to make whole. Repair costs would be crazy on either.

[@BillehBobJoe]

Ed I don’t mind the stuff you say but a franken-p1 sounds like the worst thing ever. Just a truely heinous thought

[@captainronltd2905]

Non rebuildable titles due to FL salt water damage law

[@bigtrav2395]

I thought about that also but I wonder what a car like this be at exempt since it's mainly carbon fiber And aluminum

[@DaleC.]

A lot of the inland flooding was river overflow, not storm surge. Good point though

[@russelljacob7955]

Ed, you know the answer.... BUT!!! Is a salt water flood. Not a freshwater flood. Nothing will be salvageable. Every single part is no good. Salt water flood car is on same level as a fire car for things to fix.

[@georgec2126]

Different! I have to say that I'd probably avoid any car which had been exposed to salt water!

[@lbnewell23]

I definitely think the wrecked one is a much better option because you still get the P1 powertrain which is the best thing about it. It is cool to have a 650 that looks like a P1 but it’s cooler to just have a P1

[@tj86xj]

I thought the notification said a flooded PT Cruiser 😂

[@alb.88]

I fuckin called it, as soon as I saw that post I knew Ed was gonna be pouncing on the chance

[@gyanpatel4537]

dont buy the flooded p1 remember the flooded buggati houston bought it and he already made a video on it the problems he had to face while restoring the buggati are just not worth it

[@briandrake9467]

Judging by the pics, that car may have taken a poop.

[@mcleanmachut]

Tavarish bought it- will Ed buy it when done? Find out in 2033.

[@linkzzzzzzzw4srtsgnc]

Watch Houston's video on the P1 if you haven't yet, especially with the hybrid of the P1 it's a decoration at this point unless someone wants to spend retail P1 money to fix a flood one

[@slap_k_man1862]

this could be a great opportunity for a new cartreck buy a flooded car

[@TheRealMerkinSeason]

What I don’t understand is he took pics in the garage as it flooded….. but then the cars are outside floating away.. how did that happen?? The garage door end up ripping down?

[@Vice4Life]

Salt water and car batteries never mix well. I really think this P1 may have been in the drink too long.

[@jclevey3806]

I'd buy the stolen and crashed P1. The flood car might be a good story but it's probably going to be way more expensive to own in the long term, and it certainly won't see gains in value.

[@Nano606606]

Only Ed would be discussing buying a million dollar super car with the buttons done up incorrectly on his Hawaiian shirt......

[@200mphBrian]

Yeah first of all it wasn't north of Fort Myers I'm right here in Naples I'm actually his next door neighbor and that's south of Fort Myers and it would be a terrible car for a flood rebuild because it is also hybrid assist so you have all the electrical to deal with it

[@alexmartinez280]

Aside from F1 the P1 is the ultimate. Throw in a CGT and F50 and the trinity is complete.

[@farislatif8846]

Buy flooded P1 and hanging it on the wall

[@mintynuggets]

Why are we being spoiled with ed videos? Did the doctor only give him a few more days to live? I'm not complaining tho

[@begalbrew5572]

That flooded p1 can't be worth more than what maybe $15.00 ?? 🤣🤣

[@zach125b]

"Put it in rice" as you just pour ALL THE RICE in and around the whole car lol

[@BoostAlmighty]

Mileage is LOW.... it's only done 1 Nautical Mile 😅

[@hettekloosterman16]

I personally think the crashed one will actually be easier, juding by houston's video on the flood P1. For the price of the battery of one you could basically get another spyker for it.

[@andrewfabacher]

All the cars are going to Baker park in Naples. Source: I’m from Naples

[@alistairjensen7897]

Intro music is diabolical. Very off putting as is your shirt. Just saying.

[@joaopaulovidalleaodeaquino]

MC laren p1 is supercar?dont have the gadgets of batmobiles?

[@LouisWritingSomethingCrazy]

Stolen and Crashed! It's a much cooler story than "Yeah, my car was saved from a hurricane"

[@emoody6097]

I would stay away from a salt water flood car. You will be chasing bad grounds for its entire life.