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Things can go bad quickly
on the mountain roads up here. Saw this GT3 in downtown Twain Harte today that was apparently wrecked over on the Hwy 4 corridor up above Arnold. Spoke with the lady sitting shotgun in the wrecker that said they collected it from off the side of the road down a hill some.
In speaking with her for a few minutes she stated a Porsche race driver had the car on loan from a Bay Area dealership although she did not know his name. Described him a shorter guy with curly blondish-red hair in what seemed to be in his early 40's. I asked her the name I was thinking and she still did not recall. I'm not going to mention my suspicion by the description but there are a couple online news outlets that is a story is published I will link it. What a shame, she said nobody was hurt.     
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Nobody hurt is the good news, I suppose. No idea who you hint at as far as the driver goes...
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ucking fugly mess!
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Hopefully they filled out the Borrowed Car Agreement correctly.
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Was just reminded that Renn Sport is going on at Laguna this coming weekend so it makes sense there might be a few past and present factory drivers could be out here for that event.
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Shoulda been a Mustang, right?
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That's not going to buff out .
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I wonder if the driver was one with initials PL without the Newman.
I guess the driver walked away? Amazing safety if so.
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^^^ I was thinking PL also . Fits the description and I believe lives in California .
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I just spoke to a friend who knows him. Not PL.
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Perusing co part, there is a surprising number of totalled GT3's. I guess they are fast enough, that when people get in trouble, they are in deep
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Fred, I like that you go shopping when you see a thread like this. You would need more than two to make a good one.
That had to hurt, at least a little
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Shocking. The driver space seems 100% intact. Crazy good engineering or dumb luck?
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Last year when we drove over to Arkansas to drive "the pig trail" up to Eureka Springs, AR just as we got to the first of the fun curvy parts we pulled up behind a guy on a Harley trike. I was disappointed because we we going as slow as behind a motor-home but at least we had a view of the road ahead. We came to a sharper curve, and he went across the road to the left, and off the road, and the trike rolled over onto him. Several of us stopped, and lifted the still running trike off of him, shut it off, and held is off of him like human tripods. We managed to carefully slide him out from under it as a burns from the hot part or a fire were certainly possible. He was hurt enough he could not stand, and 911 was called. Three guys took turn playing human tripods to keep the bike from rolling down the embankment and onto him.
We kept talking to him to keep him conscious and we learned he drove down from Minnesota, and has ridden Harley's for 50 years, and last year he realized he was too old for a hog, and changed to a trike. He admitted he just went too fast for that curve, and he was going slow. The cops showed up first, and then the ambulance. I told the cop we were really just poking along, and the cop said they rescue trikes and cars almost every day during the fall foliage peaks. The ambulance took him away and with him out of the way, we uprighted it, and a two truck started loading it. We got back in our Porsches and drove on to Eureka Springs.
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Wonder why it doesn’t have a dealer plate.
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good tires?
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1982 Porsche 911SC 3.0L warmed over
2004 Mazda Miata
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