<VV> Drive across Paris in 9 minutes, no Corvair but worth a look

[Tony Underwood]

No Corvair...  just a Ferrari and a driver who was "late for a date".


 > On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch 
mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB 
and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck 
speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical 
reasons to 10 minutes; 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. The driver completed the 
course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH 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. 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://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547



And I thought *my* old street racing pastime was lunacy.



tony..