Another Carrera GT Dies...

[Pete000]

Just got back from picking up a part from the Pacific Porsche on PCH. Noticed a messed up black Carrera GT in the back.

Looks pretty totaled to me. Front and rear damage, air bags deploied. Wheels all pointing in various directions. What a mess. Looked new with Beverly Hills Dealer plates on it.

What happened???

[EarlyPorsche]

I think 605hp in the hands of inexperience happened.

[Lukesportsman]

Does anyone have a count yet? It might be getting easier to buy a v10 these days. We've seen just about everything else stuck in a 914.....it would be expensive irony but wow.

[Joe Bob]

http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos/01-10-07page-Porsche-Carrera-GT-exhaust-prank.htm

Maybe it's this dickhead....

[don911]

Originally posted by mikez
http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos/01-10-07page-Porsche-Carrera-GT-exhaust-prank.htm

Maybe it's this dickhead....

read my mind

[Joe Bob]

Jerkoff like that in the video deserves to stuff it into a tree.

914 guys are getting a giggle.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=67668

[pu911]

A lot of these get wrecked. Must be more than just the Horsepower.
Phil

[mb911]

man that car sounds just aweful open exhaust

[RSBob]

The driver acts like the poster child for Planned Parenthood. And his girlfriend, what the heck was she thinking?

[Rearden]

Originally posted by RSBob
The driver acts like the poster child for Planned Parenthood. And his girlfriend, what the heck was she thinking?

"This clown is a moron. Hopefully I can get his money some day."

[cab83_750]

It must be my neighbor. I saw one about 3 weeks ago, just outside my house. It was obviously new as he was learning how to start from first gear. He kept cutting the engine ....pretty humorous I thought.


I work in W.Los Angeles/Beverly Hills, and that is definitely the area. As for the 'tunnels', that is possibly in Agoura/Calabasas area (either Kanan/Dume or Malibu Canyon Rd).

Anyway, I agree......such a J/off!

[azasadny]

These are the people that make others think Porsche drivers are dickweeds...

[Gogar]

+1 the prick is definitely on the inside there.

[dorschman]

If I ever have a car worth half that money and all I can find to do with it is scare people with the engine noise please shoot me and take the car.

[RarlyL8]

Man that was hard to watch.
The epitome of the spoiled rich. I hope the "more to come" moniker was the police handcuffing this idiot.

[Emission]

That guy in the video was just a Grade A Prick - scaring a mother holding an infant - what an ass.

I've never hoped anyone would smack the rock walls on Kanan Road, but he'd be my first choice.

[dentist90]

We've got some teens in 'tooner' cars that seem to like that sound as well.

[Hayabusa]

There are two types of people that own Porsche's; Those that never should & those that obviously should!

That guy was more interested in what "others" thought about him and his status quo cage than what he thought of others' goodwill.

I am not an angry person, but if I were on my bike and that guy rolled up on me and did that it would scare the living hell out of me,, I would be the first to put my size 13 shoe into the side of his $450,000.00 door!

What a pure jackass. Hope that was him that wadded.

[haycait911]

searched but couldn't find it. did you guys see that car show where Jay Leno spun AND saved a carrera at 140mph. on a track I'd like to add. Don.

[kstar]

Originally posted by haycait911
searched but couldn't find it. did you guys see that car show where Jay Leno spun AND saved a carrera at 140mph. on a track I'd like to add. Don.

Here you go Don:

News: Leno sets speed record at Talladega in CGT

Leno sets speed mark in Porsche at Talladega
Friday, September 02, 2005
MIKE BOLTON
News staff write

TALLADEGA - You knew Jay Leno was quick with a quip.

Thursday, the "Tonight Show" host set three world speed records for production cars at Talladega Superspeedway, but not before giving Porsche officials and himself quite a scare.

Leno, an avid car enthusiast, drove a stock Porsche Carrera GT to a speed of 156.603 to establish the world record for the fastest lap ever run from a standing start on a closed course by a production vehicle. He also set records for the fastest mile (128.14) and fastest kilometer (110.478) for a production car from a standing start.

The records runs were sanctioned by the Grand American Racing Series.

Two hours prior to the record runs, Leno was testing at speed when he lost control in the speedway's tri-oval. Leno had just passed the timing light at more than 182 mph when he drifted high in the tri-oval and got caught up in debris near the wall.

The 605-horsepower, $450,000 vehicle spun five times on Talladega's front stretch but never hit the wall. The car suffered only minor damage after hitting a cone located in the grass in the tri-oval. Leno was wearing a helmet and seat belts, but the car had no roll cage.

A shaken Leno managed to laugh off the incident.

"NBC thinks I'm at the go-kart track in Malibu," he quipped.

Asked if 182 mph was the fastest that he had ever been in a car, Leno managed a laugh. "No, he said, "but that's definitely the fastest I've ever been backwards."

Leno, who has a collection of 85 antique automobiles and race cars, loves to go fast. He has driven a jet car 278 mph on the dry lake bed at El Mirage, Calif., and once drove a pre-production race car more than 200 mph in Spain. He has also driven the pace car at the Indy 500 and Daytona 500.

Danny Donahue, the son of the late Mark Donahue, also set three world records Thursday. He did so on the track where his father set the world speed record of 221.160 for a closed course in 1975. Donahue died 10 days later after that record run in a crash in Australia.

Driving the same car as Leno, Donahue set records for the fastest lap ever in a production vehicle in a flying start (195.145) and records for the mile (198.971) and kilometer (195.755) in the same category.

Leno said the car, provided by Porsche but identical to the one he owns, was a little nerve-racking at such speeds.

"It was a little scary, actually very scary," Leno said. "Only an idiot wouldn't be a little afraid out there.

"I'm used to driving on the streets so it's amazing to me how at these speeds a quarter-pound or half-pound of tire pressure can make such a difference. You can run over a dime on this track and tell if it's heads or tails."

Leno received instructions and driving tips from Porsche officials and Donahue much of the morning before making the record runs in the afternoons.

"Danny tells me this morning to stay off the painted stripes in turns one and two because its turns are in the shade and there's still some dew on them," he said. "How would I know something like that? All I know how to do when I'm driving is to look out for black ice."

Leno arrived in Alabama late Wednesday and took a few quick laps around Barber Motorsports Park in a Porsche before visiting the Barber Vintage Museum.

"I believe it's the greatest museum in the United States," Leno said. "The focus is on the machinery and not anything else. I think every motor sports fan in the U.S. needs to come see it. Most museums I've been to are an ego thing to the owner but this one is all about the vehicles. It was nice, relaxing, fun place to go."

E-mail: mbolton@bhamnews.com

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Best,

Kurt