A lowlife has tried to profit from the crash that killed Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker, attempting to sell parts from the Porsche Carrera GT for $US75,000 ($AU112,500).
A user of a popular US buy, swap and sell website has been publicly criticised after listing broken parts from the car crash which killed Fast and Furious star Paul Walker almost a decade ago.
On 30 November 2013, Paul Walker – famous for starring in the Fast and Furious film franchise as Brian O’Conner – was killed in a car crash after his business partner, Roger Rodas, lost control of the actor’s Porsche Carrera GT shortly after leaving a charity event in Santa Clarita, California.
The supercar reportedly hit a concrete pole and two trees at more than 130km/h, splitting its fuel tank and igniting. Both men perished in the accident.
While police set up a temporary crime scene to investigate the cause of the crash, parts of the car which had broken off after the initial impact were reportedly left on the road after the investigation was finished, leading to some members of the public collecting their own macabre memorabilia.
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First reported by Jalopnik, the US publication discovered the Porsche Carrera GT’s parts on Craigslist under the listing name “Paul Walker Death Car Headlamp and pieces of car”.
The publication reports the listing and the items are legitimate, though the depraved seller’s claims about how they acquired them brings up questions about how moral their actions were.
“These items were all personally recovered from the crash site by me on the night the accident happened,” the seller claims.
“All items were picked up after the police allowed the general public access to the area and removed the yellow tape.
“Included are the headlamp from the Porsche Carrera GT 2005, a piece of the door as well as some miscellaneous pieces including a molten rod from the burnt metal filled with asphalt and carbon fibre from the vehicle.”
The seller has listed the items for a combined price of $US75,000 ($AU112,500) – or almost 10 times as much as £7630 ($AU14,250) fee UK spare parts company Design 911 charges for a Porsche Carrera GT headlight.
Unfortunately, it is not the first time someone has outed themselves online after scavenging parts from Paul Walker’s fatal car crash.
Less than a week after the incident, Jameson Witty was arrested by Los Angeles police after the 18-year-old claimed he had removed one of the ‘targa’ roof panels from the Porsche Carrera GT while it was being towed from the scene of the crash.
The teenager was discovered by detectives after uploading a photo of the stolen item to social media platform Instagram.
According to a December 2013 report by the Los Angeles Times, “Witty was booked on suspicion of grand theft and tampering with evidence and is being held in lieu of $20,000 bail”, though there are no further reports of a conviction.
The death of Paul Walker also had an immediate effect on the Fast and Furious franchise, which was filming its seventh instalment when the actor passed away.
A combination of Mr Walker’s brothers and CGI were used in his place to complete the film, where his character was retired.
Last month, a Nissan Skyline GT-R which the actor drove in the fourth Fast and Furious film sold for $US1.18 million ($AU1.75 million) at auction, setting a new price record for the Japanese model.
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