Someone just sent me this:

"Wow this is the way to tour Paris!!!

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GT B and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early in the morning . 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 nearly 140 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. If you haven't seen this before it is a classic, if you have seen it I apologize, but it's still a classic. Turn on your sound and enjoy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo

Damn, I don't think he even killed a pidgeon. I wonder what Steve McQueen thought about this?

I did a google of the 275 and found some info about the 1971 coast to coast race that Gurney and Yates did. I don't remember if it was the 275 but they went 2,876 miles in under 36 hrs. Averaged over 80. went 172 in Az. When it was over the owner offered the car to gurney for 15k and he couldn't afford it. I once went from Kentucky to Tx. and had a hard time averaging 70 between fillups.

I've seen this before, definitely worth seeing and listening again. Nothing like the sound of a Ferrari V12.

That my friends is some driving like I haven't seen since I was a young man. I shall not say who was driving then either. I can say I know of an old Buick Electra 225 that would exceed the buck and a half mark.

Thanks for sharing with us.

There has been a lot written about this stunt over the years.

My parents had a 60 pontiac. of course I had to know how fast it was I was 16. It ran pretty good, what I do remember is it wouldn't come to a complete stop from wide open, about 40 mph the brakes were gone. I wonder what rpms the ferrari is turning? I'm sure the v12 is probably only spinning about 6k but from 12 cyl. it sounds like 8 at least.

oh man ... I just wanted to see the video, and that's what I've got:

This video is not available in your country.

Gustl

You probably can't defend yourself with a gun either can you?

it is verboten and banned in some countries, but you would be surprised how many have it. it gets passed on via USB stick. if you want, i can hook you up with a friend close to munich and he could send you a copy?

Thank you. I am alive again.

Nice way of trying to get this thread closed ...

It's a shame all those people around and nobody stopped to appreciate the music...

The rumor is that the driver is Jackie Icks.

the stig? lol

Thank You for sharing that......

That is frantic...sweet

JKP

LOL! Yeah that was the one that some originally thought was real. Sad truth is its taken from a big mercedes sedan and sped up with sound dubbed in.

http://www.portabletraveller.com/index/tra...rendezvous-film

Here is French film on the making of this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0wD2WBrY8s

I always enjoy the getaway in stockholm video

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1so77_ge...orsche-911_auto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbtTYHix8ck

I have the clip on DVD if anyone ever wants to watch it with Surround sound. It sounds rather amazing and very fun to watch.

y'all might like this

Late for Work

Back in my younger and stupider days I did something similar, but since I did it in a 85hp Saturn sedan, somewhat less impressive. On our honeymoon, we left the inlaws' place outside at 3:30 pm Central time and pulled into the drive at the vacation home in Florida 1152 miles away at just passed 7:15 am Eastern time the next morning. My calcs had the moving average at about 78mph and that's not taking into account time spent for stops for fuel and food. Granted, we left on a Sunday so there was pretty much no traffic to worry about anywhere. I remember hitting downtown Atlanta about midnight with all 8 lanes just about all to my lonesome...

A week later, I got pulled over on the way home somewhere off I-24 in TN...that nice officer laid into me good. And I deserved it.

Wouldn't even consider it anymore. Its weird how when you have kids, your outlook on just about everything in life changes. Before I had kids, I'd drive whatever speed entertained me.

Gurney and Yates were driving a Ferrari Daytona in what was then called the Cannonball Run. (It had nothing to do with the very bad movie and, no, Burt Reynolds was not in it. ) I remember the articles about it in Car & Driver magazine. I want to say the cover photo was of the Daytona they drove.

Now I'm confused! I can't speak or understand French, so the film of them in the Mercedes sedan is retracing the route originally taken? Was the film 'Rendevous' fillmed in a Ferrari or not? I remember watching it the first time at a PCA event on a 16mm film. All the gearheads were standing around speechless as if they were watching a porno!

I like to think that it was filmed going flat-out in the early morning. It was just a bit of socially irresponsible foolishness that is sometimes necessary in life. Now, I'd be cursing those irresponsible brats. That's what age does to you!

The Rendezvous video has been around forever. A friend had it on VHS at a Shelby club Christmas party 20+- years ago. I have a copy on dvd in front of me, says its available at www.spiritlevelfilm.com.

If the original "Rendezvous" film was the result of speeding up the film, I would think that the few pedestrians that are passed would be walking abnormally fast, as would be the blinking of the turn signals of some of the cars that were past during the run.

If indeed it was a 275 GTB,

The sound clip dubbed in IS supposedly a 275GTB, but the footage was taken from a camera mounted to the bumper of a Mercedez 450 SEL 6.9 (most likely in real time).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C'%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous

I think daytona is a nickname because the 365 won the daytona maybe 3 times. Ferrari never called it the daytona. I have a resemblance in my shed, it'l never rust.

I haven't read all the responses yet, so maybe someone has already pointed it out, but there is something NOT right about that film... that sound is overdubbed or something.

Look at the trees when he is flat out on the streets - he is rolling maybe 40 mph just looking at the trees! Also, he accelerates after the truck blocking the street and the car sound accels like a mofo but the car barely gets rolling.

I gotta call BS on that flick... now to go thru the other comments before me and see if I have been had

edit - I knew we had been had! Interesting idea but they needed to really speed the clip up to make it match the sound. That other vid of getting to work that was sped up is much closer to what 140 mph would seem like in terms of what stationary objects look like - that guy is a complete dipshit splitting lanes between cars like that!

On a different note, I too was apeshit crazy when I was younger. I would roll up the 5 fwy in SoCal from Lake Forest to Anaheim from a friend's house on a regular basis. I made the full trip including driving down Lake Forest Dr to the fwy, the fwy drive, then off and on surface streets to my house in Anaheim in 27 minutes one night - I called him from home and he about crapped himself I was already home (before cell phones hahahaha). Back then the 5 fwy would be pretty open at midnight and I would clear 140mph and typically average around 130mph in my Mustang at the time and trust me, the marker lines on the road are flying by. To do 27 minutes I was flat throttle the whole way up the 5 that night which was a bit scary as the front end would start lifting at those speeds. Again, young and dumb - I keep the 140mph blasts to the track now where it belongs!!

I know youtube fucks up some of the sound overdubbing... and so does 30 years


I would like to think its real... makes it that much cooler... it also seems like it would hard to overdub the entire thing from a clip and have someone get the ferrari to make sounds.

This has been discussed on forums for years. I think every detail including the names of the people walking down the street has been flushed out. Can't believe we're talking about it now....

From Wikipedia:

"The Ferrari 365 GTB/4, better known by the unofficial name Ferrari Daytona, is a Gran Turismo automobile produced from 1968 to 1973. It was first introduced to the public at the Paris Auto Salon in 1968 and replaced the 275 GTB/4 but, although it was also a Pininfarina design (by Leonardo Fioravanti), the Daytona was radically different. Its sharp-edged styling resembled a Lamborghini more than a traditional Pininfarina Ferrari. The Daytona name commemorates Ferrari's triple success in the February 1967 24 Hours of Daytona with the 330P4. While it was initially used as a pre-production internal denomination, Ferrari still insists that this was never the model's official name and should not be applied to it

Unlike Lamborghini's new Miura, the Daytona was a traditional front-engined, rear-drive car. Customers were disappointed that Ferrari stuck with this layout unlike with the race cars, and the Daytona was replaced by the mid-engined 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer in 1973."

OK, I watched it and here are my comments.

At about 6:30 (play time as displayed by youtube) he cuts behind a female walking across the street. She shows no surprise, doesn't stop walkng, or even bother to look behind her. If he was really screaming through the streets, she would have heard him and acted accordingly.

At another point further into it, he hits a crest and yet there is no indication of getting air or bottoming out when he comes down.

It's fun to watch, but if real, everybody involved should go to jail and have all driving licenses revoked. That includes the "driver" losing any form of racing license.

Would people view this the same way if it was some kid in a Honda? The odds of somebody stepping out from a parked car would be the same!

All that said, it's just a fake movie.

Wes

"C'était un rendez-vous" by Claude Lelouch (1976)

The facts, not the legend ! ...

Claude Lelouch is a famous french director from the "nouvelle vague". He was interviewed about this movie a few years ago. The interview was in French and you can find it on the Internet. http://www.axe-net.be/rdv/presentation.php
I will try to give you the key informations ...

He decided to make this movie because he had 300m of film not used from his previous feature film.

The car was his own Mercedes Sedan 6,9 liter (a Powerfull one), The ferrari thing is a hoax

He was driving the car, an assistant next to him with a talkie walkie. The F1 pilot thing is a hoax. He had a friend with a talkie walkie at the door next to the Louvres to check for traffic. But later they found out the Talkie was out of order ...

This was filmed in august at 5 am on a sunday ... Very low traffic.

They didn't asked for any autorisations... They would never have them.
They could have been arrested, but you have to remeber it's sunday, August , very early, its 1976, and it's France

No gyroscopic mount. The camera is monted directelly on the car. The 2 tons mass of the car will damp the vibrations better than any gyroscope.
At this time the steadicam system was still WIP.

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Sound is dubbed of course . You can clearely feel it does'nt match

The film is not speed up. I'ts filmed with a wide angle lens. This gives you the sensation the car goes very fast. You can clearely see it's not going that fast when you see him passing other cars.

His biggest fear was that the girl at the end would'nt climb the stairs at the right time ... He had only 300 meters of film. This was only for one shoot.

He was young... Kind of stupid things you do when you are young and unwise.

Ban the player, not the game Andy!

Fake or not, what strikes me is that as the car speeds through the streets traffic that is being overtaken signals and moves right. In the United States he would be blocked and given the finger for having the nerve to try and pass. Kudos to Euro driving etiquette.

I love it. A very long take with only one chance to get it right.

The making of ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHn5Q15kaIA

In French of course ...

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