Rendezvous - video

VBDub · 15 Apr 2006 at 14:55

Description: 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 to meet someone at the end.. 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>&pr=goog-sl

Mental... just mental.

Violent-J · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:08

Awesome, thats some great driving. :cool:

TaKeN · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:19

SWEET VID

Freefaller · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:39

Pretty reckless IMO, cool, but very selfish.

DRZ · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:42

Watched it again (for the 400th time

) and still gasp when the bus pulls out of that side road.

Totally insane - the driver musnt have had any fear whatsoever!

penski · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:51

I used to have a knackered copy (of a copy...of a copy...) of this on VHS when I was a kid. Love it.

*n

Violent-J · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:52

That engine sounds so good, it's like a classic musical instrument.

excaliborg · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:29

awesome video!

Spanker · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:30

Engine tone doesn't seem to match the speed of travel to me :confused:

Edit: Had a drink maybe just me

Also 1978 car may explain it :cool:

Amps · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:38

Your correct it doesn’t match. My bet is he is really driving an Alpina or a Mercedes
of some kind.

Watch the speed at which he overtakes the other cars the potential speed doesn’t seem correct for a flat out 275GTB.

Still very impressive driving epically the bit where he is in the town screeching around under that bridge.

Chris1712 · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:43

Spanker said:
Engine tone doesn't seem to match the speed of travel to me Edit: Had a drink maybe just me Also 1978 car may explain it

Yeah i was thinking that, couple times sounded like he was nailing it and looked like 40mph pootling.

Nevertheless a very cool video, shame the qualities not a bit better to.

Nozzer · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:59

There's a website which debunks the whole thing somewhere. But it's a fun video nonetheless.

Lashout_UK · 15 Apr 2006 at 17:04

Re-e-post.

Like I posted last time it's either a Renault Alpine or a Mercedes. Whatever the car is, the highest speed it hits in that video is maybe 60-80mph, and it's certainly not haring around.

The sound dubbed too.

Good bit of piston-headry though

robmiller · 15 Apr 2006 at 17:07

DRZ said:
Watched it again (for the 400th time ) and still gasp when the bus pulls out of that side road.

Yep, gets me every time :eek:

Nozzer · 15 Apr 2006 at 17:09

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

robmiller · 15 Apr 2006 at 17:10

Lashout_UK said:
Re-e-post.

Like I posted last time it's either a Renault Alpine or a Mercedes. Whatever the car is, the highest speed it hits in that video is maybe 60-80mph, and it's certainly not haring around.

The sound dubbed too.

Good bit of piston-headry though

in which he states that he was the driver and that the vehicle was a 6.9L Mercedes (probably the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9) and later dubbed over the sound of a Ferrari 275GTB to give the impression of much higher speeds.

fuz · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:36

It is great to watch but it isn't what Lelouch claimed it to be. About 3 missed shifts if (the already dubbed?/Out of sync) sound is anything to go by, I'm not sure if it was an F1 driver in there.

Mr_Sukebe · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:38

I've read that it might well have been driven by the director of the film. Apparently it was his car and he was meant to be a pretty damn good driver.
What I always found amazing were the hilly areas near Montmatre, completely awesome.
The other thing I heard was that there was one particular road junction with very poor visibility of what was around. He had a friend of his with a walkie talkie there, just incase. On the day in question, and unknown to the driver, the walkie of the guy standing at the junction failed, so he was running completely blind through that section. Talk about raving mad.

Matt82 · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:44

something doesnt seem right abuot it, i dont beleive it is "real".

he opens it up right to the top of 4th and then what i presume is 5th, but he is not passing traffic at the rate you would expect for 100++

then he turns onto a massive roundabout, before even backing off from the top of top gear, does two very expert downchanges as he gets onto the straight and then accelerates away

seems like a load of guff, i bet its a normal vid with a with a different soundtrck put over it

Freefaller · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:54

It makes me miss paris

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