For lovers of the movie "GRAND PRIX", step inside...

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The sites, the sounds, the Hollywood hype, the narration, the classic style, the cars, and the stars. Perfect viewing for a summer Sunday morning with a cup of coffee. It's all here:


Video: The making of John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix » Motorsport Retro

[BE911SC]

VERY cool. "Mah-nah-co."

When men were men, they smoked and drank, screwed as many women as possible (and the women chased them all over trying to get in the sack with them). They used hair cream on their well-trimmed hair and Champion spark plugs in their well-tuned racing engines. They drove cool cars on the street, wore sport coats and ties after 5:00 p.m. and shaved daily. Many of them also died of things such as liver disease, lung cancer and heart-attacks in their 50s but in the meantime they LIVED!

Love how they used Ford GT street cars for camera cars. White one in Ma-nah-co and a maroon one at Riverside for the camera and driver testing.

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[Tervuren]

Sits as the best race movie I've ever seen for sure.

I especially like that it doesn't have all the fake "announcing" overlay recorded after the fact like so many sports films lamely do today.

A shame though that the Nurburgring played hard ball and and Frank had no choice but to cut the race scenes there completely from the movie. I think there was one other GP that they filmed, but weren't able to work out a deal to use either.