RIP Paul Walker

This summer a friend of mine from Massachusetts brought his family out and stayed with us during the dream cruise. He had just bought the car he trailered out to cruise in from the driver of the car that died in this crash. The world of fast cars is really small.
 
kornfandude said:
Looks like fast 7 was finished b4 Paul died and me being a huge F&F this saddens me greatly.
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kornfandude said:
Well Im wrong fast 7 is still in production and is unknown how and if the movie will be completed
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dave89iroc said:
Depends how far along in filming they are
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Tin said:
According to Wikipedia, they are in post-production, meaning filming has already finished.
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Read they had 2 more weeks of filming...
 
DBK said:
This summer a friend of mine from Massachusetts brought his family out and stayed with us during the dream cruise. He had just bought the car he trailered out to cruise in from the driver of the car that died in this crash. The world of fast cars is really small.
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Graham Rahal tweeted last night that he had recently sold his red Carrera GT to someone in SoCal but he wasn't sure who. It very well could have been this car.

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Didn't Ryan Dunn die in a Porch Carrara GT as well? I thought these cars were some of the best handling cars on the road. Whats up with them loosing control on dry pavement with no traffic around and splitting in half in a fireball?

So sad that Paul died. I loved all of his movies…even how cheesy some of the earlier F&F movies were, Paul still made them good. I usually don't really have a reaction to celebrities dying, but the news of Paul Walker dying actually breaks my heart. If you watched his movies, he always smiled made acting look fun in his films. RIP Paul Walker. We will miss you.
 
ItsAllAboutTheT&A said:
Didn't Ryan Dunn die in a Porch Carrara GT as well? I thought these cars were some of the best handling cars on the road. Whats up with them loosing control on dry pavement with no traffic around and splitting in half in a fireball?

So sad that Paul died. I loved all of his movies…even how cheesy some of the earlier F&F movies were, Paul still made them good. I usually don't really have a reaction to celebrities dying, but the news of Paul Walker dying actually breaks my heart. If you watched his movies, he always smiled made acting look fun in his films. RIP Paul Walker. We will miss you.
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x2. It's weird, but I find his death resonating with me more than I thought it would. Everything you read says that he was just a great and caring human being with a heart of gold. Terrible situation
 
ItsAllAboutTheT&A said:
Didn't Ryan Dunn die in a Porch Carrara GT as well? I thought these cars were some of the best handling cars on the road. Whats up with them loosing control on dry pavement with no traffic around and splitting in half in a fireball?
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No, Dunn was not in a CGT.

The CGT is a particularly unforgiving car if you go an inch past the limit. It has always had that reputation. Porsche got dragged into a lawsuit over a prior death involving a CGT under the claim the car was defective because it was not offered with the Porsche electronic stability control system. Realisitcally, people that drive these cars know it going in, and you've seen a spike in the value of cars like the CGT and Ford GT because they are the last cars legally offered without such systems. Upside is no computer interference, downside is that they tend to be vastly more unforgiving to the smallest errors.
 
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chunkybs said:
Very sad, RIP Paul. The first F&F was a huge part of what got me into cars back in the day.
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I was working at ford SVT when they made the first one and was so proud to brag about the lightning they used in it.
It was a press vehicle that we had loaned them for the movie and is in a couple scenes.
 
DBK said:
No, Dunn was not in a CGT.

The CGT is a particularly unforgiving car if you go an inch past the limit. It has always had that reputation. Porsche got dragged into a lawsuit over a prior death involving a CGT under the claim the car was defective because it was not offered with the Porsche electronic stability control system. Realisitcally, people that drive these cars know it going in, and you've seen a spike in the value of cars like the CGT and Ford GT because they are the last cars legally offered without such systems. Upside is no computer interference, downside is that they tend to be vastly more unforgiving to the smallest errors.
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This right here is probably one of the biggest reasons ive decided to hang on to my camaro for the long haul. Its definitely not the fastest thing by todays standards, but i love that it is completely and savagely unforgiving in doing exactly what I tell it. I dont get any enjoyment out of holding my foot to the floor and letting a computer figure out where the throttle/oversteer limit is, even if its faster. But this is a sad reminder even the most experienced of drivers can get burned....
 
JoeliusZ28 said:
This right here is probably one of the biggest reasons ive decided to hang on to my camaro for the long haul. Its definitely not the fastest thing by todays standards, but i love that it is completely and savagely unforgiving in doing exactly what I tell it. I dont get any enjoyment out of holding my foot to the floor and letting a computer figure out where the throttle/oversteer limit is, even if its faster. But this is a sad reminder even the most experienced of drivers can get burned....
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So that's the reason you didn't buy a Carrera gt...
 
JoeliusZ28 said:
This right here is probably one of the biggest reasons ive decided to hang on to my camaro for the long haul. Its definitely not the fastest thing by todays standards, but i love that it is completely and savagely unforgiving in doing exactly what I tell it. I dont get any enjoyment out of holding my foot to the floor and letting a computer figure out where the throttle/oversteer limit is, even if its faster. But this is a sad reminder even the most experienced of drivers can get burned....
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You still have computers.


Carburetor FTW sir.
 
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