---
title: "This Belgian Man Turned His Ferrari Into a Mailbox"
description: "Being dismembered and trapped in Belgium is a special circle of sports car hell."
date: "2016-02-05"
modified: "2016-02-05"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/2068/this-belgian-man-turned-his-ferrari-into-a-mailbox"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Ferrari"
---

# This Belgian Man Turned His Ferrari Into a Mailbox

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*In the ‘rari! The ‘rari! Put my mail in the ‘rari.* That’s what we presume this [Belgian man with a Ferrari Mondial mailbox](<https://www.hln.be/hln/nl/959/Bizar/article/detail/2607723/2016/02/05/Deze-brievenbus-was-vroeger-een-Ferrari.dhtml>) shout-sings at his mailman, perhaps alternating with *Gelieve, beschouw mijn grote mailbox gemaakt van bottom een verguisde sportauto's!* (Or, “please regard my big mailbox fashioned from a maligned sports car’s bottom.”) Either way, one Nico Van Lee of Genk, Belgium, turned his feeble old 1982 Ferrari Mondial into a large mailbox and installed it outside his mother’s house. Because, that’s what mom always wanted: Your car’s ass, mounted in her shrubbery.

Several factors led Nico to transform the Mondial, roundly acknowledged as Ferrari’s worst effort, from an Italian sports car into a receptacle for electric bills. He found the car in Britain, a right-hand drive model; because Belgian motorists drive on the right, passing and visibility were difficult. The the car was also high-mileage and generally worn. So, when the gearbox crapped out—a $7k job, at best—Nico took the Mondial off the road and started scheming up alternative uses for his decrepit Ferrari. In the end, he sliced off 18 inches off the car, leaving a five-foot wide trunk/postal box. Should passers-by not recognize the chopped-up Ferrari, Nico applied two large Ferrari decals between the rear lights.

Yes. Good. Another Ferrari Mondial becomes a lawn ornament. But, hey, at least this one’s doing *something*.

https://twitter.com/_/status/695556047428145152

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

### Author social links  
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