Fast and Furious - End of the Line

From what I gathered in the news, the type of car involved was one that most people have no business driving on a city street.

Basically it is a street legal race car that isn't made for knock about town driving at any speed. There is a manufactures recommendation that owners undergo training before taking delivery of one and a warning that driving over a speed bump can cause up to 40,000 dollars in damage.

Proof?

Movement inside the flames in no way means that what your seeing is a body, much less that the body is alive. That kind of fire is going to create lots of movement from the heat it puts out and air it sucks in.

Yeah, I'm not sure what these people are getting at, exactly. We didn't care about the driver because he wasn't famous? And the Earth is round because it's not square?

It was on one of the Celebrity and Entertainment shows on the television in the doctors office yesterday afternoon. They had a crash investigator analyzing it and some specific statements by the manufacturer.

Proof, post a link.

Not the exact show I saw but the link touches on similar ideas.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/us/paul-walker-crash-car/

Dayton posts plenty of things that are utterly implausible without support. Give him a pass here. High performance racing style vehicles with really low clearance is the norm; gotta keep that center of gravity low if you want to take turns at speed without flipping. We're talking about a half-million dollar car with a few inches of clearance at most, a car that people aren't going to know how to drive if they're not trained on it and a car that will wreck itself on speed bumps.

The show also claimed that Walkers car had SIX previous owners but had little more than 3,000 miles on it.

This sounds to me like the previous owners couldn't find many opportunities to drive it without damaging it and/or found the car simply too much to handle.

Both of which means it had no business being on a regular street despite being legal.

I was doing what Dayton does, wanting proof and a link for anything. I've driven cars that put out 600+ hp. They are twitchy as hell to drive. I also have some performance modifications on my Mustang, it's nearly impossible to drive it in the rain.

These type of cars are rarely driven as a daily driver. The people that own them do so for the status or to simply have one and drive on occasion to special events or shows. They are kept for their status, when they are driven their owners take caution when driving them.

Maybe your car just needs a decent driver....

I take it you've never driven a Fox body Mustang, those have extremely light rear ends. And if you're pushing out 317 hp at the rear wheels it's going to lose traction very easy at the rear end.

Are you also oblivious to the Fast & Furious series of movies?

Why don't you ballast it?

I know of them, but I've never watched one.

I had no idea of who this guy was until he croaked.

It isn't just movement. It's person-shaped movement. A firefighter on one site remarked that the video showed a person trying to escape from the fire.

And the autopsy results say Walker died as a result of the fire: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/us/walker-death-questions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

It's hipster bullshit is what it is. Only mourning people you're actually familiar with is too mainstream, apparently.

I don't drive it in the rain enough to make it worth it. To make it work, it would take to much weight.

What? I have been watching videos of dogs playing in the snow today.

If you can't drive in the rain then what is the point?

It's my weekend cruiser/pleasure car. Not a daily driver, I have it for weekend or pleasure driving, if I need to I can drive it in the rain. It can tricky though, the rear end tends to break loose on a wet road or the rain under 25-30mph.

Maybe you should change out the slicks.

Nonsense. Give it a shot. I think you could handle it on a wet road at 60+ at least.

I have no problem handling it, it's easier to drive at higher speeds since the engine is turning at a higher rpm. There's more torque available at a lower rpm, henceforth it's easier to spin the tires. I've driven it several times on the highway in the rain it speeds above 70 or 80 miles an hour.

So, looks like the poor bastard did roast for awhile...and Fast 7 might be junked, and done all over again.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/29964/-fast-furious-7-shut-down-as-coroner-rules

Or it could be renamed Fast 7 from Heaven!!

My friends and I(who are mechanics) saw the first movie. The technical inaccuracies were beyond ridiculous, we had a good laugh in the theater.

Yeah, I almost never watch big flashy, CGI-heavy, plot-thin movies like that.

Not my cup of tea.

I ended up watching them well after being out on cable a while and yea, some of the stuff was a bit far fetched filled with sequential mistakes in editing, busted headlight then it's miraculously repaired in the next scene, that kind of shit.

Still, sure no way for a man to die. I found myself thinking about that clip as I imagine it is in the line at the store today. Horrific.

Mom told me and recent news that they're not going to be filming this new fast and furious movie. That's awful. Because they're trying to not replace Paul Walker after his death. He was just a great great guy and he did a lot for the community. And is leaving behind a 16-year-old daughter. I'm so sorry that it happened. I personally loved him in the movie timeline.