With all their track time its amazing they would be hot ******* on the street. Sad. That had to have been pretty high speed.

A person who happened to be on the same fateful street that Paul Walker was riding along in Santa Clarita, Calif. — in fact, Paul and one other man, the driver, had passed the witness less than a minute before losing control, spoke to HollywoodLife.com about the gruesome crash.
“We were missed getting hit by them by like 30 seconds,” the eyewitness recalls. The source can’t exactly say why the driver of the car lost control, though he does confirm that the crash was extremely violent and explosive.
“The car burst into flames immediately and split a tree in half,” the eyewitness says, adding that there seemed to be no stopping the fire that broke out. “The flames were way too big and fast-moving.”
“They couldn’t do anything,” he says, in reference to Paul and the other passenger.

Pictures from the scene of the accident also make that evident. The Porsche Paul was in was reduced to mere rubble after the fire was finally extinguished. And if the impact of the crash didn’t take Paul’s life, the explosion and fire that followed did.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ntcmp=trending

 

My local car club is going on a cruise today in his honor.

 

In his honor? Really? He wasn't John Wayne or Steve McQueen. It's a shame that he died so young but a lot better actors have died and never had a memorial cruise in their honor.

 

I don't think the cruise is about career accomplishments. For many, their introduction into car culture was the fast and the furious franchise. For many that where already part of the culture, it cemented their love of cars and motorsports. A cruise that pays small tribute to that seems very much in line to me.

I've never seen a single fast and furious movie but I'm saddened by the death of anyone young, especially when it involves cars. It's heart breaking that something I love so dearly can take a life and does so too often.

 

And yet every guy with a Bullit Mustang thinks they're Steve McQueen, but a lot of better actors have died. So what's your point? You just had to be "that" guy with the jerky comment.

 

a) You would be wrong. I don't wear a turtleneck.

b) That's Al's job here.

 

 

It's not a jerky comment. Fast and the furious sucked ***!!! All 13 of them. I mourned the death of Jackie Gleason. Long live Buford T Justice!!! Now that was a great car movie.

 

"Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch your momma right in the mouth."

 

He had other movies too. RIP Paul.

 

So I'm guessing Carrera GT has engine in the back and fuel tank in the front. If you hit a pole head on at a relatively high force or even a medium rate of speed fuel tank ruptures and then it's just a matter of a spark and boom.

 

some pretty gruesome photos on another forum .. they didn`t burn to death i dont think ..

 

CNN was showing some pictures of black marks on the road across from where it happened, looked like someone doing donuts, but said they were still investigating whether they were part of the accident, or were already there.

 

Daddy my hat fell off.
I hope your god damm head was in it.

 

It is sad news. He was a great actor and from what I have heard a great person as well. A genuine car enthusiast. My condolences to his family.

 

Another good example of why public roads ARE NOT SUITABLE for what should be confined to controlled tracks and venues.
This can happen to anyone, very sad.

 

I know old timers wont get it.. it really was the movie that saved modern car culture and helped grow sema in to what it is now. Yeah the moves were kinda corny but they spoke to many of us growing up in the late 90s.

I remember leaving the theater. It was like a new world opened to us. Everyone was jazzed.

 

Dude. Go back to your video game thread. Sema was "the show" way before that stupid movie. American Graffiti was a cooler car movie. If the FAF movies sparked something in your life, you never were a car guy.

 

well said .. and that`s all i got to say about that ..

 

I was 9 when the first one came out. Didn't see it probably till I was 11 or 12 but I remember that movie specifically is what turned me onto cars.