A Ferrari that split in half in a high-speed crash has been completely restored and sold at auction for $1.7 million

In 2006, a rare $650,000 Ferrari Enzo split in half in a devastating wreck along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. Local and national news media were all over the story.

News helicopters hovered overhead, shooting video of the mangled red Italian supercar, its front end and passenger compartment resting on the side of the road.

Police grabbed the large body panels and Enzo chunks that littered the pavement, and loaded the seemingly hopeless wreck onto a flatbed truck.

The Enzo, of which only 400 were made after it debuted in 2002, appeared destined to become scrap metal.

Not so.

The car was offered at auction — not in its mutilated state, but in like-new condition. The once wrecked 2004 Enzo, chassis number 135564, sold at a Sotheby's auction in Paris this week for more than $1.7 million.

A spokesperson for RM Sotheby's tells Business Insider in an email that the Enzo was "repaired and overhauled" at the Ferrari Technical Assistance Service, and has been "fully blessed and certified" by the experts at Ferrari Classiche — the division that restores vintage prancing stallions.

Ferrari also added several options, including navigation, Bose audio, a rear backup camera and power windows to the restored Enzo — features that were not originally available on Enzos when they were new. And the car was painted black, or Nero Daytona, as the listing describes it.

And now it looks like this: