Brothers found the cheapest McLaren 650S Spider they could in America, and revived it despite being fire-damaged

Two brothers bought a fire-damaged McLaren 650S Spider, by far the cheapest McLaren 650S in the country.

The car was cheap because it was in terrible shape.

But they wanted to revive it, and they were convinced they could pull it off.

Amazingly, they did.

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The story behind the fire-damaged, cheapest McLaren 650S Spider in the U.S.

Christian and Jeffrey Turner from the JR Garage YouTube channel found the cheapest McLaren 650S Spider they could find in the U.S. and bought it for a pittance.

They said the car had originally been bought new in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2016 for $300,000 and it now cost them less than half that.

The car had been sitting in a Copart yard – essentially a graveyard for damaged vehicles – for over two years because no one wanted it.

Part of the reason why no one wanted it is the listing came with a lot of red flags.

First and foremost, it came with ‘unknown mileage’, some weird white marks all over the body panels and a damaged engine.

But the biggest red flag was the fact no one, not even the auctioneer, knew for sure what had happened.

The listing just mentioned some fire damage.

Fortunately for them, fixing the car turned out to be a lot easier, and a tiny bit less expensive, than they had anticipated.

The reason why the fire-damaged car was so ‘cheap’

Copart yards are perfect for this sort of thing.

That’s where you can find totaled McLaren Arturas, cars damaged by hurricanes and so on.

Several different Copart yards are scattered across the country, but the one in Miami and the one these guys used in Arizona are the among the largest.

YouTubers and collectors love them because they are perfect for this type of high-risk and high-reward buy.

This is because the story behind the cars, and that’s also the case with this McLaren, is always…complex.

For the McLaren in question, the former owner got into an ugly and lengthy legal battle with his insurance company.

But he eventually won, and got a ton of money as a reward, way more than the MSRP of the car.

So the owner didn’t care about the car anymore and the insurance company just wanted to leave the whole thing behind and get rid of the car.

As a result, the car ended up on the yard, with vague information, but an appealing price tag.