amazing DVD

[acaskie]

I just watched a DVD called "C'etait un rendevous", a movie of a nine minute max speed run through Paris that was fairly unbelievable. Apparently it was shot in 1976 by some well-known French director who got an F-1 driver to pilot his 365GTB with a camera mounted on the front bumper all the way through town at what looks to be about 5:00am.

There were no staged scenes, no blocked off roads or speeded up footage, just this car going as fast as conceivably possible all over the place.--He must have run twenty red lights, several one way streets in the wrong direction, wrong side of the road when necessary. You can hear the screeching tires and the beautiful music of the driver going up and down through the gears--almost as quickly as they do now with the paddle shifters. At one point the car continued to accelerate after hitting top gear for at least 15 seconds--that had to be around 170mph.

Well, there's no point in trying to describe it beyond that--it's just incredible. I stongly recommend it to any speed freak.