Just WOW.......

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May 20th, 2006, 07:47 PM
Sidewinder

Just WOW.......

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?do...7&q=lelouch%3e Make sure your sound is on , sit down, fasten your seat belt, and HOLD ON!!!!!
May 20th, 2006, 10:04 PM
bistro

Ah yes....zee French filmmaker Claude Lelouch....otherwise known as "Le Idiot"....

Interesting....but I do not go for stunts like that where the people deliberately put others at risk.
May 20th, 2006, 10:07 PM
buf

(*%^(_ SIDEWINDER, I finally get to Paris for my SECOND time---my first and last--and I feel as though I was in a low flying jet. Those birds that kept flying out of the way probably thought there was a jet also.
Never saw ANYONE so anxious to see a woman :D
What a blast that trip was!! Now I gotta go "somewhere".
May 20th, 2006, 10:43 PM
GetaGrrrip

That car came SO close to hitting several pedestrians...and every time I saw an upcoming red light, I was cringing. :eek: Of course, the driver *almost* lost it a couple of times!
May 21st, 2006, 08:41 AM
Sidewinder

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Originally Posted by bistro

Ah yes....zee French filmmaker Claude Lelouch....otherwise known as "Le Idiot"....

Interesting....but I do not go for stunts like that where the people deliberately put others at risk.

Thankfully no one was injured during that stunt.

buf, yup my brain was still spinning for about a half hour after watching that. SW
May 21st, 2006, 08:47 AM
Nix

I was flicking TV channels the other night whilst haging out at VDr and caught that video on some car show that was on at like 1am in the morning.

Pretty amazing.
May 22nd, 2006, 02:55 AM
usil

Could that have been staged? I mean, there were hardly any cars on the road in a huge city like Paris (although it was probably in the early hours of the morning). That doesn't look right. Also, of the few cars on the road, they all seemed to pull over to the side when he came. And in the last scene, with the girl coming up the stairs just as he pulls up, that looks too hollywoody, if you know what I mean. And where the heck were all the french policemen?