Thought I would share
http://www.vimeo.com/1101437

I don't condone it but damn can this guy drive

Apparently, 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. If you are at all familiar with Paris you will recognize quite a few landmarks.

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 several 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.

 

That was fun to watch! Wonder how the transmission held up on that car after that footage was shot. LOL

 

tranny, what tranny? loved the sounds of the heal toe's though. I was concerned about the front end, did you see the curb shots?

 

This video reminds me of 350z video "the run" -released in 2002.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Fd6k99n_E

 

That's a classic...he was arrested in 1976 after release of the film, he then suggested he drove his own Merc 450SEL 6.9 in the film, sped up the footage, and dubbed in the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB. Ahhhh, c'est bon.

 

That is one of the most famous driving videos of all time. Very controversial.

 

The camera was actually mounted on a Mercedes. The sound track was from the Ferrari though - when he did the route a SECOND TIME. YIKES!

There are a number of sites dedicated to this, and even a "making of the movie" floating around the interwebs.

-td

 

Seems like lot of debate about what he was driving and how it went down. Crazy to think someone would take the time to exactly match the sound track to be perfectly timed with heal toes right when it would need to happen. Especially in the pre computer days.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3...un_rendez-vous

I bought the DVD a while back -- its awesome on the big screen!!

 

Quite a drive. In whatever car it was shot from, that is an impressive video and nice to see a nice looking woman coming up the stairs and not a group of french cops.

 

this guy is crazy!

 

Like "himself" said that video was reviewed on Fifth Gear... Video is not as it sounds or looks.. The Video was done in some other car (nothing exotic) and the sound was taken from a Ferrari Race Car... and the video is Sped Up...

 

That's nothing I drive like that everyday to work and back.

 

sound is not from the same car??

 

I wonder if this is called insane driving...

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/P...0RR_208206.htm