Speeding in Paris

If you've ever needed a reason to upgrade to Quicktime Pro, it's to grab this to watch over and over - sorry if it's been posted before:-

http://www.stuntcook.com/?i=14356

posted over on the UK NSRA forum - thought you'd fancy watching it?

 

for a second there, I thought that link said Stunt cock... and I thought... "how did I let THAT get on line."

 

Now what you mean - I had to avoid looking at all the adverts that lurk there...

 

My company browser classifies that as a porn site and won't let me see it.

 

Well - I suppose it IS french...
It's also a 34MB download btw.

 

Cool stuff. I wonder how early in the morning they had to do this, due to the lack of traffic.

 

Here's another link - perhaps it'll pass the porn filters

http://daubeurs.free.fr/download/rendezvous.mov

It's EARLY in the morning, 1976, and the camera is mounted to the front of a Ferrari, which is flat out at certain points.
I think?

Yep - found it:-
C'etait un rendevous (aka Rendevous) (1976) Lelouch borrowed a friends Ferrari, strapped a camera on the front and drove it flat out through the streets of Paris (or so the legend goes). Extraordinary footage, well you could do that in 1976.. Director: Claude Lelouch.

 

........sounds like a Porsche

 

The second link worked, thanks. I thought it was a motorcycle until he stopped and slammed the door. I counted 14 red lights that he didn't even let up for. Pretty scary.

 

The best movie about this subject was done by Claude Lelouch, a french film director in the 60's and 70's. His films include Une Femme et Un Homme (a man and a woman) which inceidentally has great footage of the '65 monte carlo rally (maybe '66 don't remember) as well as great period gt40 footage. The movie was filmed in a very close to real time, in that it was shot in like some 3 weeks. All the stuff is original. (beware: Anouk Amiee is hot, and it is a love story) The "vintage" gear is great. Lots of great mustang racing too.

The story goes that he drove across Paris one Sunday morning to bang his girl friend, he filmed his exploit of blasting across town. He later showed the short at a film festival, and was subsequently arrested (or so I heard) the sequences are supposed to be awesome as the movie is real time, no bull shit. Flat ass driving across paris in the early am.

 

I've had this video for years, my friends and I watch it once a year at a little 'stag' car movie party we have. Unfortunately, it was recently proven to be a hoax. By Hoax I mean, YES he was driving a Ferrari, and YES, he was driving through the streets of Pairs, but they figured out he was never going more than about 60 MPH at any point....

.... we were all DEVISTATED to find out.. but, hey.. what are 'ya gonna do. I tried to find a link to the article but I have been unsuccessful as of yet. If I do, I'll post it.

It's still cool as hell to watch I'll say that.. !!

TinyE

 

Took me 3 hours to 6 miles in heavy Paris traffic one foggy evening. Even 30mph would have been scary!
Guess HE knew where he was going...

 

I have watched it over and over and over....Doesnt help that I am listening to Six Feet Under while watching it

 

sweet,

if you look hard enough theres NEW versions of that, possibly also in paris in new super cars, totaly illegal. i used to ahv ea link but have since lost them

tim

 

it was good I qualified with "as the story goes", that fucking bums me out. I have lusted to see that movie for fucking years. I finally found it at some small film company at was like $30.00 and I didn't want to spend that for a 15min short.

but if you think about it, it is through paris, this aint runnin through texas from houston to el paso, so are you really going to be doing 200+. So there maybe some truth, and also perspective on film is everything. as an example I drove from Martinez to Davis and it is about 55 miles. Door slam to door slam was 24 minutes. found out that 150 on a 2 lane road is a little entertaining. Later found out the front end on a 3rd gen gets real light above 170. (this one aint stock either)

 

It ain't cool unless you can do all that in a LeCar in five o clock traffic

 

A buddy of mine bought the DVD some time ago, and I've read some articles and interviews on it dating back to when it was released. He did get arrested, and he really was going flat out. The top speed of that particular Ferrari is around 180+, I believe...and you can hear him hitting top gear a couple of times.

It's pretty impressive. I'll see if I can dig up some links...

Edit: Found some!

From The Independent (looks like the link has been removed):

"Early one Sunday morning in 1976, Claude Lelouch, the French film director best known for Un Homme et une Femme (1966), and other soft-focus romances with a distinct whiff of Pepé le Pew, took a 35mm camera for a high-speed drive around the streets of Paris. The result of this adventure, an eight-minute film entitled Rendezvous, has been the subject of amazement and speculation ever since. Did the car really blast from the Champs-Elysées to the heights of Montmartre at 200mph? Was Lelouch behind the wheel, or was it the Formula One racer, Jacques Lafitte? And did the breakneck journey result in the director being propelled straight from the driving-seat into a police cell?

Lelouch won't say. Even now, over 25 years later, he maintains an unbreakable silence on the subject. The only statement he has ever made is contained in a caption that prefaces the film, exhorting the audience to believe its eyes and ears. Rendezvous was shot, he asserts, without recourse to camera tricks. The speed of the film has not been altered to increase the speed of the journey. And as you watch the edit-free point-of-view footage, follow the vehicle's screaming passage through red lights, track its swerves into lanes of oncoming traffic, shudder at its near-squeak avoidance of collisions with buses and dustcarts and Parisiennes and their dogs, it's not difficult to understand his reticence."

 

That's cool. I was in Paris last spring and recognize some of the landmarks he went past. Traffic was a bit heavier though.

 

I want to recreate that driving on Lower Wacker on a Zamboni I swipe from the United Center after a long night of binge drinking,,,


*Edit* Just watched it for the first time... not too impressed. Its neat, but reminds me of the video game Test Drive but with shitty graphics and bad hair.

I was hoping for a couple of the birds to end up as grille food... oh well.

Nice ending... I almost cried...

 

Do you remember the Renault R5 back in the 80's? It was basically the rally version of the LeCar. Something like 600HP and all wheel drive. Maniacal and I wanted one so bad...

 

you mean this bad boy...

http://www.carclassic.com/stock.asp?StockID=101399

the Peugot 205 T16 was better though. But my favorite is the Lancia Delta S4

 

Well, have just watched it, (I drove up to Sacramento and stopped in at my arcitech's office) At the end it is noted that it has been "remastered" The sound track is a joke. This was filmed in '76 w/ a 35 mm camera, there would be no sound recorded. The "noise" is obviously added later. The car is supposed to be a ferrari (that noise ain't: don't sound to muffler-ed) Also it appears that he is going between 60 - 75 tops, and judging by how narrow those streets are, that is really quite quick. So if any one really thinks he was doing 200+ they are nuts, but those lights are real and so are the cars and people: it aint staged. My guess is he really drove across Paris, one Sunday morning, quickly, ran alot of red lights and scared alot of pigeons and a few old ladies.

(just turn off the sound and watch it again: it has a whole different feel)

so don't give up on it yet.

 

Dat beez da one. So I was a little off on the HP #s. It was the 80's and oh so long ago. I'm surprised I even remembered the car.

 

I don't care if it's been posted before, when it was done, what the car is or how fast it was really going...that was a frikin rush to watch. Thanks monkeybiker, I needed that!

 

Has anyone ever seen the in car video from rally driver Ari Vatanen, as he's racing to the top of Pikes Peak in a Peugot 405 Turbo 16..? Now that is some serious driving..
At one point he has the sun straight in his eyes, just takes his hand of the wheel to block the sun, but never let's his foot go off the throttle.. Sick!!

I'll do a search for it... A collegue of mine had it a while ago.

 

Okay... a quick google search can do a lot.. I already found it!!

This, is some serious driving.... I have BIG respect for these guys!!

http://carfreaks.b0nk.net/Course de Pikes Peak (Ari Vatanen).mpg

 

Oh.... The "Black Prince" was on there too... Unforunately he died in an accident.. I've lived in Paris for 2 years, and I've seen these guys do this, for real.

A little O/T, but you gotta see this.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/bestoflooping/video/Moto-Periph-Le-Prince-Noir.mpg

 

http://www.getawayinstockholm.com/

this is what you need to watch!

if you have a file sharing program (kazaa, E-donkey etc...) look it up.

I have getaway 1 and 2 on my hard-drive.

 

I am trying to work here, not download real big things to my 'puter

i will watch it as soon as it is done.