Ferrari do an incredible thing to make sure their wrecked supercars get a second life

Ferrari has a special workshop that helps restore, repair, and revive its stunning vehicles – giving them a second lease of life.

The Ferrari Classiche is housed at Maranello and is home to a team of dedicated specialists who can get older or damaged Ferraris looking brand new. 

Regardless of the state of the vehicle, the team of experts will put their all into making it look the same as it did when it first left the factory. 

Not only does that require skill, but it also relies on a huge archive of paperwork, technical drawings, and other documentation to ensure the car is as good as new.

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Ferrari Classiche is a very special workshop

Even the most careful of drivers can end up in an accident – or you may find your car damaged in an unusual freak accident, much like the owner of this Pagani Utopia or the person waiting for delivery of their Lamborghini Diablo. 

And while any damaged car is a pretty heartbreaking thing, there’s something altogether more upsetting when the car in question is a high-end Ferarri. 

However, the luxury marque has got its customers covered thanks to its Ferrari Classiche restoration workshop. 

Introduced by then-president Luca di Montezemolo in 2006, the specialist workshop provides support for both older racing cars as well as road-going vehicles. 

The expert team can handle everything from basic maintenance work to repairs and even a full restoration – meaning even a fairly beaten-up Ferrari can still be given a second chance.

The experts do have some rules, though

To help assist the team, the Ferrari Classiche also contains a huge archive of original technical drawings, prints, spec lists, and images – so the experts always have years of knowledge to draw on. 

According to head of Ferrari Classiche Andrea Modena, it’s this major archive that helps it stand out from other workshops. 

“It is a daily asset that we access,” Modena told Road & Track. 

“Often I’m asked, ‘Is the workshop you have, in front of your office, the best workshop in the world?’ I would like to say yes — but the reason why I’m saying yes is because we have the archive.”

And the specialists aren’t just located at Maranello, there are almost 50 Classiche Certified dealers across the globe. 

However, while the team is keen to fix up and repair any vehicle it can, there are some caveats. 

If a car is genuinely unfixable – even by the experts – it is deemed destroyed, and Ferrari will not create a replica of an existing car. 

“We will not do a replica,” Modena told Road & Track. “Despite the fact that, thanks to the archive, thanks to the competencies, thanks to the new technology, we could [replicate] whatever car we have produced in our history. We choose not to.”

Fair enough.