C'etait un Rendez vous

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Kerotan

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Had read about this but never seen it, many thanks for posting! :thumbsup:

Hard to believe that they just went for it, could of gone horribly wrong at some points! :-O Don't think with modern police surveillance/response time anything like that could be achieved today, certainly not in a major city, although people do streetrace still but not normally for 8 minutes!
 
Fatdog

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Kerotan said:
Hard to believe that they just went for it, could of gone horribly wrong at some points! :-O Don't think with modern police surveillance/response time anything like that could be achieved today, certainly not in a major city
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I totally agree! I'll have to go back and watch it again and count all of the traffic lights that were red. :-O
 
jaetee

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Yea, there' are cameras all over the place now in most developed metropolitan areas now that would seriously prohibit that.

Did you read the expanded caption where it says it might have been a Mercedes 450 SE 6.9 instead of a Ferrari, and that the Ferrari sound was dubbed in....??? Just pulled this from Wiki:

  • He was arrested after his 1976 film, C'était un rendez-vous, reportedly at the time featuring a Ferrari 275 GTB being illegally driven at speeds approaching 140 miles/h through the streets of Paris by a Formula 1 driver, was first shown publicly. Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB.

Either way, it was very well done. Some might say it was a reckless, stupid and irresponsible thing to do.... but it sure was entertaining as hell!!!!

Almost more fun than watching the in-car camera during a formula one race!
 
bill

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this movie is fake to a certain degree.
dont belive it.
watch this making of film
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1

then in the parts where they show bumper shots of this car cruising through paris notice how fast it looks.
he is barely doing the speed limit in those shots.
i would also say there is a ton of shots in that film where he is driving that if he was going really fast there is no way a turbo diesel merc would be able to not drift into a endless series of donuts.
it is a cool movie tho.
its just not really as fast or intense as they are pretending.
the dubbed in ferrai and tire squeals are all part of the fun.
despite what the director might say.
speeding a little but a bit less white knuckle than i think they suggest.
still a awesome clip.
 
jaetee

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bill said:
i would also say there is a ton of shots in that film where he is driving that if he was going really fast there is no way a turbo diesel merc would be able to not drift into a endless series of donuts.
it is a cool movie tho.
its just not really as fast or intense as they are pretending.
the dubbed in ferrai and tire squeals are all part of the fun.
despite what the director might say.
speeding a little but a bit less white knuckle than i think they suggest.
still a awesome clip.
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While much of what you are saying may be true, I assure you that the 450 SEL 6.9 was not a Turbo Diesel. That's a 6.9 liter fuel injected gas engine in a body with a revolutionary hydraulic suspension for its time. It was a fire-breathing, beheamoth of Benz that was easily capable of speeds in excess of 140 miles per hour, all day long.

Take your pick and check out what turns up when you do a Google search for "450 SEL 6.9"

Remember that move Ronin??? That was a 450 SEL 6.9 in that movie...

http://www.google.com/search?source...=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNWK_enUS254US255&q=450+sel+6.9

That Benz would have been capable of everything you see in that video. I've been in one of those on the autobahn, as well as some agressive, hard driving in the German countryside.., so theres no doubt in my mind. Gas mileage sucks, but its a rocket of a sedan.

Whether or not the film is sped up at certain times, I think that's debatable. The speed of other cars and the movements of the pedestrians (when you see them) looks pretty normal to me and the whole thing seems pretty fluid, but I wasn't really looking that close. If it is sped up at parts, the director did a great job of masking it.
 
bill

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you are right man. that is a hot merc for sure.
one of the best saloon cars of them all.
 
Jovie

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I question the driver's judgment taking the risk in the making of this film.Even so,I really enjoy watching the world from the bumper of a car driving through actual city streets and country roads.Narrow streets and roadways heighten your perception of speed.There's so much to see on the sides of the road also.Interesting from beginning to end!

This "C'etait un Rendez vous" reminds me of the road racing they used to do in Europe.Ever since I was very young,I always have been fascinated by that particularly before the 1970s.Unless it was on a dedicated closed circuit,road racing was outlawed in America shortly after the introduction of the car.In Europe,and elsewhere,they would regularly close off sections of road for racing before the 1970s.Since those days,it seems that no racing course more narrow than perhaps an airport runway has been deemed appropriate or safe enough for racing.The "sterile" character of modern raceways,even in Europe,are totally uninteresting to me.
 
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