Thursday, July 31, 2008

Rendezvous: a leisurely tour of Paris by Ferrari



It's a 9-minute tour of Paris by film director Claude Lelouch. The soundtrack is a Ferrari 275 GTB engine (Lelouch's own car), but apparently the car used to film it was actually a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9. I guess I can accept it's better that he drilled holes in a M-B bumper to mount the camera rather than violating the Ferrari's skin.

If you listen carefully, you'll notice a little overzealous mixing of extra tire squeal in places :-( Lots of arguments about the speeds attained in the film...some experts saying no more than 85mph, while Lelouch claimed something over 200kph (about 120mph).

Apparently there was only 1 "lookout" person put in place for safety--near the Louvre.

More about this film here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i have heard it before BRILLIANT,i love the ending . Its why i have been a "petrol head" all my life ..
tony
i only had my blog for a week ,so still getting the hang of it !

http://johnny5-masteroftheuniverse.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

this video and sound just gorgeous... 33 year ago wow