Habanos2000 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I received this from a friend and thought some of you might enjoy watching it as well: On an August morning in 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a car and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early in the morning. 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 footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets. He was arrested after this film, C'était un rendez-vous, reportedly at the time featuring a Ferrari 275 GTB being illegally driven at speeds approaching 140 km/h through the streets of Paris by a Formula 1 driver, was first shown publicly. Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colt45 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Awesome! Pretty much how I remember everyone driving in Paris when I was there....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuma Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 So bloody beautiful... so moving, and so fast, it brought tears to my eyes :*-) ... thanx for posting it mate, it's made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiley Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Really amazing. I saw this a year or two ago. I absolutely love the sound of that Ferrari! And that guy is a freaking idiot. He's lucky he didn't kill someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinnyc Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I have a DVD of this and watch it a couple of times a year when I need a good smile. - Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stargazer14 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I had this for years also - just watched it last weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenpimp Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 That was sweet. The stuff in Montmartre was insane. All that and not a single pigeon was killed. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Here is a photograph of Mssr. LeLouch adjusting the camera on the MERCEDES that was used for the film. The sound of the Ferrari 275 GTB was dubbed over. There have been numerous studies of time vs. distance from landmark to landmark which show the car never exceeded about 80MPH. Still a very nice piece of film work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laficion Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 AHHHH Those were the good old days, But at the time, you would see more CITROENS 2CV then FERRARI or MERCEDES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Growing up in Ireland my Mum was a big fan of the Renault 4 had two of them back to back in the 70's. Had the strangest manual gearbox up on the dash board. AHHHH Those were the good old days, But at the time, you would see moreCITROENS 2CV then FERRARI or MERCEDES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laficion Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 The CITROEN 2CV and the RENAULT 4L were really the fun cars in France in the 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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