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Hey NASCAR Freaks! Betcha Can't Watch Part of THIS
zipperzap
Member Posts: 25,057
...THIS should hold your attention![:D]
Enjoy![:D][:D][:D]
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend (a professional Formula 1 racer) drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes;?the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested.
He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.
http://tinyurl.com/q3jco
Enjoy![:D][:D][:D]
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend (a professional Formula 1 racer) drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes;?the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested.
He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.
http://tinyurl.com/q3jco
Comments
Apparently French pigeon's can get outa the way quicker than a French General can surrender. [:D]
The downshifts sound gnarly! Somehow the sound of the engine and the passing cars did not seem to match up. Still pretty cool though.[8D]
I should do that with the Jeep. Put a big push-bar on it and drive it like a maniac through Paris.
I wonder how many frenchmen would drop their cheese to raise their hands in surrender before I creamed them?
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
...THIS should hold your attention![:D]
Enjoy![:D][:D][:D]
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend (a professional Formula 1 racer) drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes;?the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested.
He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.
http://tinyurl.com/q3jco
Yes, I have done 140, and I can tell you things come up on you a lot faster than shown in that video.
[;)]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lelouch
Claude Lelouch
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Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer and producer.
Born in Paris, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), as well as two oscars including best foreign language film. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece.
Lelouch is known for making movies based heavily on improvised dialogue.
He was arrested after his 1978 film, Rendezvous, featuring a Ferrari 275 GTB being illegally driven at speeds approaching 140mph through the streets of Paris, was first shown publicly.
Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB. Several independent groups have verified that the car in the film never reaches past 140kmh(85mph).
GOOD EYE/GOOD EAR!
Fooled me![:0]