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i saw this picture and i was expecting it be just the crash photo but i saw people commenting on it because it was different than the rest. this one i respected because the idea that "he's still around"
us (92.9) radio this morning said something about a report of seeing fluilds on the ground before the tire marks into the pole. suggested power steering might have failed. if that is even remotely true, I would not want to be the the last mechanic who worked on that car last.
What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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I was privileged enough to be able to shake his hand on the set of "8 below" in Smithers when he was there, I remember telling him how much I enjoyed his F&F movies. Rare do celebrities stay who they were before the fame, he was REAL. Most of you have said it feels like a death of a family member, and it does.
RIP to Paul and Roger.
Thoughts are with the families and loved ones at this time.
us (92.9) radio this morning said something about a report of seeing fluilds on the ground before the tire marks into the pole. suggested power steering might have failed. if that is even remotely true, I would not want to be the the last mechanic who worked on that car last.
i heard the same thing on am980 this morning. supposedly there was a puddle power steering fluid on the shop floor after the car had left. tmz claims that one of the shop employees was having trouble with the car stalling before the event, but those familar with the GT says the clutch can be a bitch to use for the unexperienced so tmz's assumption may be invalid.
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
Tales of Walker's philanthropy are not new. CNN confirmed one story from a decade ago when Walker noticed a young U.S. soldier shopping with his fiancee for a wedding ring in a Santa Barbara jewelry store.
"The groom was just back from duty in Iraq, and he was going to be deployed again soon and wanted to buy a wedding ring, but he said he just could not afford it," saleswoman Irene King told CNN. "I don't think the soldier realized how expensive those rings are, about $10,000."
The couple apparently did not know who Walker was, King said.
"Walker called the manager over and said, 'Put that girl's ring on my tab,'" she said. "Walker left all his billing info, and it was a done deal. The couple was stunned. She was thrilled and could not believe someone did this."
King called it "the most generous thing I have ever seen."
i heard the same thing on am980 this morning. supposedly there was a puddle power steering fluid on the shop floor after the car had left. tmz claims that one of the shop employees was having trouble with the car stalling before the event, but those familar with the GT says the clutch can be a bitch to use for the unexperienced so tmz's assumption may be invalid.
Found the story you guys are talking about
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The trouble-prone Porsche that “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker was riding in when he died in a crash suffered a mechanical failure that was likely caused by a power steering fluid leak, a new report said Monday.
Sources connected to Always Evolving – the auto shop co-owned by Walker and Porsche driver Roger Rodas — told the celebrity Web site TMZ that they saw “evidence of a fluid burst and subsequent fluid trail before the skid marks at the accident scene.”
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Walker and Rodas in 2010.Photo: Facebook
The sources said that the lack of skid marks until just before the point of impact suggests the driver didn’t have control of the speeding car’s steering.
Walker was just tagging along with a pal for a test-drive in a trouble-prone Porsche when they crashed and died, a new report said.
The 40-year-old actor had shown up at Always Evolving — a high-end car shop run by Walker’s buddy, former race-car driver Roger Rodas, 38 — for a fund-raiser for typhoon victims in the Philippines, according to TMZ.
But when he got to there, he saw Rodas trying to help employees figure out what was wrong with a red Porsche Carrera GT that kept stalling.
Rodas was behind the wheel, backing the pricy car out of the garage, when Walker hopped into the passenger seat and the pair took off to trouble-shoot, sources said.
They were returning from a 20-minute spin when they tragically crashed — just 500 yards from the shop.
Cops said Rodas, 38, had been speeding.
“There was a post-collision fire, and the bodies are not visually identifiable,” said Dana Bee, a deputy coroner with the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office.
The office said it had contacted the victims’ families.
“We are working to legally obtain the dental records,” Bee said.
A photo snapped shortly before the fiery crash shows Walker getting into the red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT.
He had attended a fund-raiser to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and had left the event when the car careened out of control and crashed, bursting into flames in a business park in Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles.
A video posted online by a man who drove up on the fiery scene shows a mangled heap of steel engulfed in flame.
“Drive away! It’s gonna blow up!” a person is heard saying before a loud explosion.
Onlookers asked for hoses as they tried to douse the flames.
“The car is in half. I can’t tell if there is someone in there,” another witness is heard saying.
A friend of Walker told the Santa Clara Valley Signal newspaper that he and others tried to save the men from the burning wreckage.
“We all ran around and jumped in cars and grabbed fire extinguishers and immediately went to the vehicle,” Antonio Holmes told the paper.
“It was engulfed in flames. There was nothing. They were trapped.”
Colleagues mourned the actor, who has played undercover cop Brian O’Conner in five of the six “Fast & Furious” movies and had been filming a seventh.
“Brother I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless,” co-star Vin Diesel wrote on Instagram, posting a photo of himself with the actor. “Heaven has gained a new Angel. Rest in Peace.”
Diesel also tweeted: “My brother and I . . . we aimed for the stars together . . . and achieved more than we ever hoped we could with f&f.”
Another “Fast” co-star, rapper Ludacris, also payed tribute and posted to Instagram a still of the cast printed with the words, “Thankful for the Fast family.”
“Your humble spirit was felt from the start, wherever you blessed your presence you always left a mark,” he wrote. “We were like brothers & our birthdays are only 1 day apart, now You will forever hold a place in all of our hearts @paulwalker legacy will live on forever. R.I.P.”
Fans of Walker, who leaves a 15-year-old daughter, set up a makeshift memorial at the crash site Sunday, placing flowers, candle and notes.
God forbide something like this happening, but I wonder if Vin Diesel had traded places with PW would it not matter as much because he wasn't a big car guy?
some confusing stuff about that CGT in the comments on jalopnik. this car had gone through multiple owners before arriving to this point, and others said that the car had actually been sold before this happened.
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
What kind of driver are you in the real world? Are you aggressive, passive, speedy or do you just putter around getting in everybody's way?
There's a reason why I'm driving a pickup right now. Let's just put it that way.
Dick Hartz or whatever his name is, the dude who sold his company locally to Microsoft or someone, he put his CGT up on the divider at Arbutus and Broadway. Also heard he crashed it twice more but there were photos of his car actually on the median.
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