RIP no matter what anyone says the fast and the furious movies were entertaining and he will be missed.
I taught private lessons just down the hill from that road. While 15 is a bit low, I'm sure the "racing driver" whose Porsche it was was likely not anywhere near the speed limit. It's also a very odd place to have a charity event or for Paul Walker to be.
Sucks to hear this if for anything else, because he was a big name in cars since the F&F and he's always been pretty active in the scene. My friends always thought F^F was a lame attempt at the street racing scene, but it's amazing how much popularity that movie brought to the tuner crowd. I remember the weekend the movie debuted, the local racing meetups went from 20-30 cars or so, to 100s, overnight. It took years for the effect that movie had to diminish. Also - There was a nasty CGT accident a few years ago that killed someone at a race track. There was someone suing for it and Porsche ended up spending a lot of money. These cars are faster than most GT3s and Turbos, are lighter weight and even more knife-edge. They have crazy cool engines that sound amazing. If I'm going to die in a car crash I hope it's in a CGT and not a Miata. We don't work on these particular cars. Still a lot of my customers have had them. Very cool amazing piece of engineering.
Almost all of the SCV is master planned with wide roads. However, it's all rather curvy having been built into the hills.
Saying on the radio this morning that there was a large fluid leak down the road before the point where the car lost traction. Was also believed to be the cause of why it went up in flames so quickly.
"Sources linked to Always Evolving - the shop co-owned by Walker and the Porsche driver Roger Rodas - told TMZ they saw evidence of a fluid burst and subsequent fluid trail before the skid marks at the accident site. They said the noticeable lack of skid marks until just before the crash site suggest the driver may have lost control of the steering. On top of that, they appear in a straight line, not in a swerve pattern as normally occurs when a driver loses control of a car. The sources also told the website that the flames spread so quickly to the front of the car reinforces their theory of a steering fluid leak. The engine of a Porsche Carrera is at the back of the vehicle. It was also revealed today that the eight-year-old son of Rodas was one of the first to the site of the horrific car crash. Before the flames had even died down, Rodas's son heroically came rushing to try and pull his dad from the inferno. 'His son had jumped the fence and gone over, he was trying to get his dad out,' said witness Jim Torp. The tragic detail emerged after footage surfaced of the Fast & Furious actor stepping into his friend's ill-fated sports car just 30 minutes before the horrendous crash in which the pair lost their lives. According to Radar Online, the crash happened so close to the charity event Walker was attending that Rodas's son was on the scene in mere seconds. 'There was nothing he could do,' Torp said. TMZ reports that the crash occurred as the friends were on their way back from a 20-minute drive. Prior to that drive, Rodas had personally taken the wheel of the vehicle after one of the former race car driver's employees at the upscale auto shop he owned was having issues backing the car up into the garage. The vehicle reportedly kept stalling for the employee. As Rodas took control, Walker hopped in because he hadn't yet had a chance to take a spin in the impressive sports car. The crash occurred just yards away from the auto shop as the friends returned. The county coroner has revealed that the bodies of Walker and Rodas were so badly burned that they are currently unidentifiable. 'There was a post-collision fire and bodies are not visually identifiable,' said LA County deputy coroner Dana Bee." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...heartache.html __________________
So, just made the girlfriend watch the first F&F. The scene in the garage when Dom is describing how his father died in a car crash and fire... there's a poster in the background dated December 1st & 2nd.
Who? I've not seen any of the F&F movies, but he seemed like a decent guy. Burning to death has got to be the worst way... Having not been a fan or known him personally I almost mourn the loss of the car more, lol.
oh fuck! its chrew. that is some crazy shit. if you replace DOM's dad with paul walker he is pretty much describing his death. crazy stuff.
I had just took the last sip of mine and belched up the carbonation. Burrrrrp. And 86mc, it's kiiiiiind of similar but not really the same circumstances considering it was on a street, and nobody clipped him.
