PSSST! Wanna buy a cheap Fezzer? Didn’t even have to fall off the back of a truck?

Sorry, but thanks to the fast-moving investigative skills of the Spanish police, you may have missed your chance. They’ve just busted a gang for the second time in five years that specialises in turning boggo passenger cars into Ferrari-badged knock-offs and selling them to unsuspecting punters.

According to the Spanish police, the gang was busted earlier this week, and was in the process of transforming 14 “mid-range cars” into highly desirable super sports cars.

The gang allegedly planned to sell the cars via the internet. Some had already been listed online as second-hand vehicles even though they were still a work in progress.

Police said the investigation into the fake supercars kicked off after it became aware of “a vehicle that simulated the appearance of a sports car of the Ferrari brand infringing the industrial property rights of the aforementioned brand”.

“The agents also located the clandestine workshop … where they found 14 vehicles in different degree of transformation. Four of them were several Ferrari models already ready for sale,” police said.

“The records involved a number of parts, distinctive elements of the marques concerned, fiberglass moulds for body parts of the marques concerned, speedometers and vehicle-related documentation.”

One of the items seized was a complete blank for the body of a V8-engined Ferrari F430, a mid-2000s coupe and convertible worth more than $200,000 second-hand.

The gang appears to have sourced a number of donor cars to run underneath the fake skins. These range from what looks like a V6-engined Ford Mondeo to a Pontiac Fiero and even a mystery Peugeot.

The trickery didn’t just relate to fairly recent prestige models, either; at one point the vision cuts across a complete outer-skin cast of a Dino, a car potentially worth $500,000 – if it’s the real deal.