I have a friend that is a race car driver. He sent me this link
While it isn’t water…nor big surf…you will feel something similar
http://www.falstaffpubs.com/download/rendezvous20_04.mov
Turn up your speakers loud… and hang on. Take a tour of downtown Paris like you never could have imagined!
Hopefully you have a fast connection.
YEAH!! Bill , feels like going to Jalama in your old blue bug.Aloha KP
heh- did you notice that he blew through every red light out there? I kept waiting for the lights of every Paris traffic cop to show up behind him…
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2674471?htv=12&htv=12
Synopsis
This award winning short film documents Ari Vatanen’s record-breaking run at the 1988 annual Pike’s Peak Hill Climb Event in Colorado. The film was created by Jean Louis Mourey and captures Vatanen climbing Pike’s Peak in a four wheel drive, four wheel steer Peugeot 405 T16. Watch the world famous rally legend rip through hairpins and glide past sheer cliffs at 14,000 foot elevation from cameras inside, in front, underneath and above the car. This is by far some of the most spectacular and nerve bending race car footage ever recorded. The film has since become one of the most watched and talked about car films ever, right up there with the French cult classic “Rendezvous”.
Bloody Perfect…I don’t think I’ve seen Paris so quiet…It must be early morning.
Nice, but you can’t tell how fast he’s going, as everyone else is obviously poking along slower than normal.
I like the old LeMan’s footage, the one where the GT-40’s finally won against the Ferrari’s.
You can see the tac in the bottom of the pics, and 6,400 was equal to around 235mph on the Mulsanne (spelling sucks on that one) straight.
Best when they came up on a couple of GT class Porsche’s, going about 90mph faster…
My days on the track are long over. Last laps just tirewarmups for RonGrant (TeamSuzuki RG500), at Talledega, getting to within 7 seconds of his fastest lap times.
Now I drive freeways at 59mph in the slow lane.
Is everyone having trouble opening this ifilm of the Pikes Peak race?
The screen should show a green button that says watch.
You need QuickTime, but if you can watch Rendezvous you have QT.
I found it opened in Internet Exploder and not in Netscape.
Why ask why?
Anyway it’s no big deal these are all old classics.
Mark, sweet video on Pike’s Peak.
My boss currently holds the world record, but I’ve never seen a long video on the course.
~ Ghost
eh.
He was driving that fast to meet up with his girl? I thought the local break was going off with the way he was driving.
well, that’s how I drive anyways when its pumping.
Rio
YEAH!! Bill , feels like going to Jalama in your old blue bug.Aloha KP
SO… you remember that do you! Those were great trips and what a fantastic road in. All those curves! I loved it. Of course, not all my passengers did! Ha! That old blue bug went pretty fast for a VW didn’t it.
So Kirk, what are you up to these days and where are you livng?
heh- did you notice that he blew through every red light out there? I kept waiting for the lights of every Paris traffic cop to show up behind him....
Aloha Doc
How he skated through all those reds without crossing up with someone going the other way was either a set up or exceptional luck!
Quote:heh- did you notice that he blew through every red light out there? I kept waiting for the lights of every Paris traffic cop to show up behind him…
Aloha Doc
How he skated through all those reds without crossing up with someone going the other way was either a set up or exceptional luck!
Hi Bill,
That’s kinda how I figured it, that plus dawn ( hence the garbage trucks ) and prolly more. Though I’d expect that if I wanted to run a car chase type thing in a major city, that’s when I’d do it.
But he was whipping through there fast enough to mebbe get a pigeon or two hung up in the grillwork. And definitely a few white spots elsewhere…
happy motoring
doc- former Esso pump jockey and car freak -
I have a friend that is a race car driver. He sent me this link
While it isn’t water…nor big surf…you will feel something similar
http://www.falstaffpubs.com/…/rendezvous20_04.mov
Turn up your speakers loud… and hang on. Take a tour of downtown Paris like you never could have imagined!
Hopefully you have a fast connection.
Very famous scene. The true story goes as follow :
On an August morning in 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of his personnal Ferrari 275 GTB and drove at full speed through the heart of Paris. Lelouch had just ended making a film and had 10mm left of unused roll and figured it was a good way to use this roll.
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. Lelouch completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140mph 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. More details (in French) can be read on Lelouch’s website :http://www.lesfilms13.com/…lms/touslesfilms.htm
And, from http://www.jerrykindall.com/2005/11/07_cetait_un_rendezvous.asp
“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://www.endorphin.com/stories/ferrari_275.php for the convertible version. Buddy of mine had a similar car…insanely fast, when it wasn’t broken.
doc…
And, from http://www.jerrykindall.com/…it_un_rendezvous.asp
“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.”
Yes, I had seen that version (actually some of the text I posted comes from there). However, here’s a translation of what Lelouch states :
"Standing in the central police office, I felt like a child about to be punished. As a matter of fact I expected to be severely punished. With a judge’s voice, the police comissionner who had personnaly summoned me, listed outloud all the violations I had done during these few minutes of film making. The list went on and on. Once he was finallly done, he looked at me with a black eye and said:
Give me your driver’s licence please. It was not the right moment to try to negociate anything, so I gave him my license. The commissioner took the license, looked at it for a moment then … gave it back to me with a big smile on his face.
I promessed I would take away your license, he said. But but I didn’t specify for how long.
He then added :
Thanks for the info Pierre and Doc
I will pass it on to my friend
One feels that this thread is a conspiracy to fool the googlebots into linking your name to the speed word in a surfing context. . . . . I understand I have done it myself. 
Yeah sorry just kidding, hair raising clips thanks guys :0
I had written a post about googlebots and how when you search for “Failure” you end up with the White House’s biography of G. Bush. But then, since this morning, google seem to have corrected the probleme, so I tried to delete my post …