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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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 Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: A brief trip through Paris.... |
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In a city where no car is undented.........but I also nominate the Italians for being just as crazy:
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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 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 until a DVD release a few years ago.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547&q=lelouch%3e
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I really like standard and I've just decided I want a Ferrari just for the cool sound shifting makes.
Check out the speedy downshifting too... |
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Bo Peabody
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Love it!
some say the driver was lelouche himself, in a mercedes. Check out
http://www.axe-net.be/rdv/presentation.php
Others say the driver was Jean-Louis Trintignant, who was a F1 racing officianado and became one of France's most famous actors after starring in Claude Lelouche's "Un Homme et une Femme" with Anouk Aimee. It was in a Ferrari. His uncle Maurice Trintignat was the pro F1 driver.
Heres an aerial view of his route.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5098/rendezvousgmaps6ez.jpg |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| great piece of work! brilliant. |
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