got car video ...
Click on REPLAY at this site videos.streetfire.net - do turn up the sound level
i particularly like the sections where the ferrari was going up hill, through narrow alley way, running lights, avoiding unloading trucks and slow pedestrians, and fluttering pigeons immediately before the onrushing windshield view. I understand that, to quote pen pal,
“Filming 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 early in the morning . The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was fromPorte 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 8 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running 19 real red lights, nearly hitting a myriad of actual pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up two bonefide 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.” |
