Cordell, thank you. Shit comments like that remind me why I don't hang out on here much anymore. BTW, I still owe you a folding seat (which I now have).
Paul was a car guy--period. I hate to see any of us pass. However, I can't help but almost be happy for him as he died doing what he loved. Jones and I had this discussion a while back that we would both rather die doing something we loved rather than lying in a hospital bed waiting to take our last breath from cancer or something.
Like said previously, some of us were around when the first movie came out. While they did bastardize our existing lifestyle in some respect, they also brought some of us into the hobby. I can name a few of us on here who ran around back in the day with 15+ second cars, and we have now all moved onto something respectable.