This is the kind of story that makes people like us either lash out in anger or weep until their eyelids turn a deathly shade of chartruse. We did both (sorry, wall, we'll plaster you back up in no time). An put-upon English lord, with unspeakably poor judgement, destroyed several irreplaceable Ferraris in an attempt at self-preservation. His family business of collecting rare sports cars hit a rough patch some years back, and the only way to save his family seat, as Lord Brocket saw it, was to hatch a scheme to collect 4.5 million pounds in insurance. So what of the cars? Did they survive? Only the Lord knows for sure.
Here's What I Really Did with the Bodies [Times Online (UK) via Sports Car Market]