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Monkey
Feb 23, 2006
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Chinafornia USA
Maybe you've seen this illegal Ferrari driving clip before, it’s old as hell. But if you haven’t… let’s just say this guy was a sick man.

Here's the plot:
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 under 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
 

sanjuro

Tube Smuggler
Sep 13, 2004
17,373
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SF
"Honey, you want to go Paris instead of Whistler this summer? I got a video where you can see all the Paris streets in less than 10 minutes..."
 

neanderthal

Monkey
Mar 1, 2005
215
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Pittsburgh
It looks like getting around buses was the biggest problem. To avoid the buses he had to drive on the wrong side of the road and drive on the sidewalk. Scared a few pigeons along the way too.

Can you image driving to work at 5:00AM half asleep, cruising along in your Citreon 2CV listening to Bob and Tom when some psycho passes you at 140 mph? Whoa!
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
21,022
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Denver
very cool, but I'm more a fan of the Ghostrider and similar productions. I know this video was 30 yrs ago and ground breaking, but like today, I wish they'd had a camera on the dashboard.

Plus, when you're on a motorcycle, you can squeeze through a lot more stuff.
 

biggins

Rump Junkie
May 18, 2003
7,173
9
damn i kept thinking "when the hell is this guy gonna shift?"

he was winding that ferrari all the way to the redline.
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
38,239
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biggins said:
damn i kept thinking "when the hell is this guy gonna shift?"

he was winding that ferrari all the way to the redline.
i've read a lot of contradictory information about this video, but one story that makes sense is that the video was actually shot from a big mercedes sedan on a hydraulic mount, and then the engine noise was over-dubbed, with the source being a ferrari, of course.
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
19,180
17
TN
Toshi said:
i've read a lot of contradictory information about this video, but one story that makes sense is that the video was actually shot from a big mercedes sedan on a hydraulic mount, and then the engine noise was over-dubbed, with the source being a ferrari, of course.
I think I would buy that. Listen carefully when he's (supposed to be) downshifting when he turns left by that first bus. That dont jive with me.
 

aznfreerdr08

Monkey
Aug 26, 2004
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Concord, CA
BurlyShirley said:
I think I would buy that. Listen carefully when he's (supposed to be) downshifting when he turns left by that first bus. That dont jive with me.
i agree, anyone who has ever had to double downshiftknows it leaves the car purring really loud and high pitched since you're at such high rpms, but the pitch in sound doesnt go up at all after the second downshift in the video. how weird