8 1/2 minute Tour d' Paris in a Ferrari...old but inspiring video

[Dueller]

Watch the whole thing...great even if you've seen it before



In case you haven't seen this...


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 early in the morning . 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.

[Zeke]

Obviously the sound was dubbed.

[slodave]

Shot in a single take, it is an example of cinéma-vérité. The length of the film was limited by the short capacity of the reel, and filmed from a gyro-stabilised camera mounted on the bumper of a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9.[2] This model, which could reach a top speed of 235 km/h (146 mph), was only available with a 3-speed automatic transmission. Yet, one can hear gear changes up into 5th, as well as heel-and-toe down-shifting with a high-revving engine indicating speeds of well over 200 km/h. Calculations made by several independent groups showed that the car never exceeded 140 km/h (85 mph)[3], while another[4] estimated that the car had peaked at 220 km/h (136.7 mph). Lelouch himself claimed that the top speed achieved was over 200 km/h, somewhere between 230 km/h and 240 km/h.[5]It is suggested that the sound was dubbed with the noise of Lelouch's 275GTB, which has a corresponding number of gears and a similar engine note.

[Dottore]

There are many stories about this film. I have it on DVD.

The car used for the film was actually a Mercedes sedan. The sound is dubbed, and dubbed pretty badly. If a Ferrari of the day were being runs through the gears as the sound suggests the scenery would be a blur.

Even then, Lelouch increased the speed of the film for the final print to make it look faster.

A lovely film. But as fake as silicone tits.

[URY914]

Owned!

[JCF]

It took him WAY too long to get from the Arch to the Pl de la Concorde.
If he was doing 140 that's a blink of an eye .

[HardDrive]

I have decided to dismiss all speculation about the films authenticity and simply accept the film as car porn. Love it.

[GH85Carrera]

I actually bought the DVD a couple of years ago. It is a great film. Just because it is not real does not bother me. It is not a documentary, just a fantasy. The DVD has some pretty good sounds when played on my home system. I even made a version that plays on my phone.

[tangerine911S]

Maybe I know nothing but the dubbed sound is not obvious to me at all. Pretty well done I say.

[Schumi]

How about the real thing?

Take two proper GT3's, some Netherlands hoonery, some cameras, and most likely some illegal (stateside) substances... and you get this...

[svandamme]

somebody needs to handover the keys to some potent set of wheels and slap a video camera on that thing...
Let me deliver a proper piece of film... it is my destiny...