Christian Skofteland wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:22:46PM -0000, Bob W wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > The real question is why would you want to go to France ? >> > > >> > > http://bil-tv.23video.com/video/551798/rendezvous-in-paris >> > >> > Cool ride, but you know damn well if I tried something like >> > that, we'd be segueing into a thread about the cooking in >> > FRENCH JAILS. >> >> I forwarded this to a few friends, one of whom replied with an explanation. >> >> I thought it was a motor bike, but apparently it was a Ferrari 275 gtb >> fitted with a gyro-stabilised camera on the bumper and driven by a F1 >> driver, whose name has never been revealed by the director, Lelouch. >> >> Apparently Lelouch was arrested when the film was first shown in public. >> >> No roads were closed, the driver ran a lot of red lights, nearly hit a lot >> of pedestrians, and drove the wrong way up a lot of one-way streets. >> >> So nothing special for France in the 1970s. > >Almost but not quite. "A photo has surfaced that seems to reveal an Eclair >cam-flex 35mm camera with a wide angle lens, and a typical "speed rail" hard >mount - no gyros - on a Mercedes... A making-of-the-rendezvous documentary >indicates that Lelouch himself was the driver, that the car driven was the >Mercedes, although the sound track is from a Ferrari."
Definitely dubbed engine sounds and tire squeals. And I don't think the top speed was anywhere near some of the 200kph people have speculated. The very low camera position exaggerates the speed and it still doesn't look very fast to me. Find a copy of "Pascal's Ride on La Peripherique" for comparison. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
