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Comedian and car enthusiast Jerry Seinfeld managed to walk away "without a scratch" after his 1967 Fiat BTM flipped in East Hampton over the weekend.
According to the Post’s account, Seinfeld was alone behind the wheel and was about to merge into highway traffic when the brakes gave out. He then tried the emergency brake, and that failed, too. Drenched in flop sweat, the Bee Movie star cut the wheel to the right and "the car rolled over,” coming to a stop “yards from the intersection.”
Police say he was not drinking and said the accident was caused by mechanical failure. Seinfeld found the brighter side, "Because I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do. It is not something I plan to make a habit of."
The comedian (pictured with a Porsche) has an extensive collection of cars, even storing a few in a multi-million garage/car temple on West 83rd Street. He is apparently selling his 1997 Porsche 911 Turbo S for $225,000. No word on if it includes a pencil with Jon Voigt's teeth marks.
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was he in a bee suit?
I'll get you next time Seinfeld!!! Until you're actually funny, keep checking your brakes! I kid....I have had that happen twice, it's scary.
So close...damn.
Newman!!!!
It must have been that homicidally insane, plagiarized by Jessica, thrice-named food author who cut his brakes. Karma is a b*tch Jerry.
That is a very expensive Porsche he is standing next to in the photo. I doubt if he could flip that one and walk away.
Why drive a dangerous 41-year-old piece of shit Fiat when you're worth hundreds of millions? (BTW, the car in that picture isn't the car that rolled -- if THAT car in that picture rolled he'd probably be dead now.) I'm not saying he needs to tool around in a $250,000 Porsche every day, and it's actually cool that he doesn't, but how about a car with ABS brakes, stability control, airbags, etc? These antique cars are nice to look at but dangerous to actually drive.
He flipped over in a Fiat? Wow, that's never happened before.
I thought he was a Porsche man?
How small can that car be? I mean, honestly people!?
The car in that photo doesn't even have a roll bar for rollover accident protection. If that car flips, your head becomes the roll bar. Ouchie!
Rock On!
Anybody have any clue what a Fiat "BTM" is? I can't find anything on the internet about this particular model, and the Wikipedia List of Fiats doesn't include any reference to a BTM or anything made in 1967 that sounds like it might be misinterpreted as a BTM.
Either Seinfeld has one super-rare Fiat (possible as he is a car nut, but unlikely given that you'd think I'd find some reference to the model somewhere), or the original reporter who reported this story got the car wrong and every other news outlet has yet to pick up on the mistake.
That's the funniest thing he's said in a decade, but I still love him.
Also, the photo above is a Porsche 550 Spyder, which killed James Dean. Like Snoopy said above, it's a good thing he didn't crash that one.
Looks like I'm not the only one wondering what a "BTM" is.
That Porsche 550 Spyder as LinkMan mentioned is worth a lot more than $250,000.
BTM must be short for "Bottom" of the line FIAT, which is the abbreviation for "Fix It Again Tony." Anyone with his kind of money driving around in a beat up old Fiat really doesn't know his cars very well. I can see a brake hose drying out and leaking but really the emergency brake didn't work either? I can just imagine who does the work on his cars. His wife probably judging by its condition.
just 'cause Jerry and the star-struck EH police say it was mechanical failure, doesn't make it so.
never been funny, damn big nose.
Was this due to Kramer's idea to make 3 highway lanes into 2 big ones?
Or did he slip on garbage not picked up by Kramer's Adopt-a-Highway program?
Was it the food Kramer was warming up on the engine, or the fact he used the engine compartment as extra space for his Costco purchases?
I bet he will hear it from his overbearing "Robert Barone-like" mechanic about his failure to properly maintain his brakes.
no sympathy,
rich people die in more unusual ways than common folk!
next time please die in a fiery crash in your expensive car.
thanks.
even with a near death experience, I'm sure he'll still be a dick.
the one image I've seen of a FIAT related to this accident was a picture of a FIAT DINO, a fiat sports car with a 6 cylinder ferrari engine, the same basic motor from a FERRARI DINO.
oh well. so FIX IT AGAIN TONY!
A Fiat with mechanical failure?
That is a shock.
Hamptons? I bet the Billy Joel ran him off the road.
Sad to hear he's okay
Yes the Fiat Dino / Ferrari was a big hit for those that couldn't afford a real Ferrari, but I doubt the nice Jewish boy flipped one of those.
He was probably looking in the mirror reflecting on his former stardom and lost it while eating a bagel with a schmeer.
That's a car?? Shit, I have shoes bigger than that!
Heh, flop sweat.