By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

When I chatted with Paul Walker at the Fast & Furious shoot last year, he struck me as a pretty serious gearhead. But at the time I never suspected he could rip up a track like this. It’s too bad they didn’t let him do any of the stunt driving for the film–(he was a little sad about that, too)–because he seems to have some pretty burly skills on him. Check out this epic drift video from Streetfire–Walker, Tanner Faust ‘n’ pals go out to play at Willow Springs raceway in a bunch of awesome rides, including  a 2010 Mustang and a whole heap of GT-Rs. Enjoy!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Check out the polished version of that on-set spy video we showed you last year. The GPS presence is kind of a goofy addition, but I guess that’s unavoidable nowadays. Enjoy!

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USA Today posted some apparent screen shots from the new Fast and Furious film. Included among the subjects is one of the mint Grand Nationals that gets trashed in the film (RIP to the six of them), along with Vin Diesel’s mean-looking Chevelle SS, of which we’ve already seen plenty of illicit footage. And surprise, Paul Walker’s going to be driving an R34 Skyline! See the other shots below the jump, and stay tuned for more—now that the stills are starting to trickle out, the official trailer can’t be far behind!

Thanks for the heads-up, Jalopnik!

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While it lacks the in-your-face street-racing action of the spy video we showed you on Tuesday, this set footage from Hollywood spy site X17video gives some interesting clues about what’s going on in the new Fast and Furious film. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel hop out of their rides and act like they’re gonna throw some hands. The Skyline gets a thorough dousing with a smoke machine at around 2:30, and the Chevelle appears to have sustained some body damage. We’re wondering if Brian still owes Dom a ten-second car.

Darkblade06 over at VWVortex staked out the FF4 set on Friday, and has posted a bunch of photos from the 9th day of filming. Most of them are pretty blurry (it was a night scene), but they do give you an idea of what cars are going to look like in the film. There’s an STI that’ll presumably be the one Paul Walker’s character will drive, though it’s got a different color scheme than the one Rob blogged last month. Dominic Toretto will be driving a Chevelle this time around, though a Charger will also be getting some screen time (the script has Dom’s original ride being "rebuilt" after the first film’s climactic barrel roll—yeah right!). Go below the jump to see more shots, and check out the backstory at VWVortex.

CarDomain member Freesol, who managed to get both his custom Solstice and his son into The Fast and the Furious 4 after hearing about the casting call right here in the blog, has passed along this video footage filmed at the set. You get some nice views of a lot of the cars, including the Solstice, that are involved in the opening funeral scene—watch for them taking off as they leave the set! At the website hosting this video, you’ll also see some stills from the set of Vin Diesel hanging around, and Paul Walker looking especially spiffy, but nothing more on the cars. Enjoy!

Editor’s note: Mozilla Firefox users, try this version of the video. The original sometimes won’t play unless you’re running Explorer.

The latest rumors on The Fast and the Furious 4 indicate that time is running out on the popular street-racing film franchise. An imminent industry-wide strike, predicted to bring all of Hollywood grinding to a halt by the end of next June, is tightening the noose on the Fast filmmakers, who are now forced to begin filming by March. Problem is, the film as yet has no script, and Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin is only tentatively connected to the project at this point. Even the casting is still a little up in the air; while producers hoped to bring back a lot of the original players, including Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, actors are already overbooked in preparation for the strike and may be hard to get. CarDomain predicts that the fiasco may in fact work out well for The Fast and the Furious 4, with the time-crunch cultivating the kind of badly-written dialogue and cornball acting that we’ve come to expect from the series.  As long as someone says something along the lines of "I live my life one quarter-mile at a time," I’ll be happy.