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did the subject title perk anyone's interest? Anyone heard of it? More importantly anyone seen it? Even more importantly... ANYONE HAVE IT? My good friend once saw it at a club meeting (after I had left the club, of course) and it's killing me that he's seen it and I haven't. I've dreamed about it for like 10 years ever since I read about it in a Car and Driver mag. If anyone has it, I'd gladly pay shipping/etc. for a copy to be sent up to vancouver, canada.... for those who don't know what it is.... a crazy french dude sticks a camera on the dash of his car, and drives hell-ass-crazy through paris using pedestrians as apexes and what-not, all in a mad dash to pick up his date (or something like that). Just a regular joe, with a camera. it's apparently pretty nuts. I'd looooove to see it. I've made some cool homemade vids with sportbikes and stuff, but never through crowds or anything nuts like that.... I think it'd be something to see....

I had heard that the driver was Alain Prost...I think the car was a BB512, maybe just a 328 though. Saw it in a car shop (The Toy Shop, specialised in 2nd hand DeTomaso, Porsche, Ferrari, Cobra etc in the heady 80s) here in Sydney, Oz, a while back...one of the shops here has it (Motoring Bookshop) but it's way expensive and in US format. Ben

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>did the subject title perk anyone's interest? Anyone heard of it? More >importantly anyone seen it? Even more importantly... ANYONE HAVE IT? My >good friend once saw it at a club meeting (after I had left the club, of >course) and it's killing me that he's seen it and I haven't. I've dreamed >about it for like 10 years ever since I read about it in a Car and Driver >mag. If anyone has it, I'd gladly pay shipping/etc. for a copy to be sent >up to vancouver, canada.... >for those who don't know what it is.... a crazy french dude sticks a camera >on the dash of his car, and drives hell-ass-crazy through paris using >pedestrians as apexes and what-not, all in a mad dash to pick up his date >(or something like that). Just a regular joe, with a camera. it's >apparently pretty nuts. I'd looooove to see it. I've made some cool >homemade vids with sportbikes and stuff, but never through crowds or >anything nuts like that.... I think it'd be something to see....

>did the subject title perk anyone's interest? Anyone heard of it? More >importantly anyone seen it? Even more importantly... ANYONE HAVE IT? My Classic Motorbooks has it. I thought about ordering it, but it's like 40 bucks and I think it's only about 12 minutes long. Their web page apparently isn't constructed yet www.classicmotorbooks.com, and I don't have a catalog handy to give you a number. Maybe someone else can help. Tim

Yup, Classic Motorbooks has it. It was French director Claude Lelouch behind the wheel of a V-12 Ferrari driving like a madman. It's 9 minutes long and just a paltry $49.95 (American) plus shipping and handling. What a bargain!!! :-) Part # 117461N -- See ya in the pits, Dean I have a terrible memory. In fact my memory's so bad I can't remember how long it's been since I've forgotten anything. > >did the subject title perk anyone's interest? Anyone heard of it? More > >importantly anyone seen it? Even more importantly... ANYONE HAVE IT? My > Classic Motorbooks has it. I thought about ordering it, but it's like > 40 bucks and I think it's only about 12 minutes long. > Their web page apparently isn't constructed yet > www.classicmotorbooks.com, and I don't have a catalog handy to give > you a number. Maybe someone else can help. > Tim

$49.95 and worth every penny! This is the ultimate car-guy's fantasy flick. Flying through the traffic circle at the Arc de Triomphe; blowing past red lights all over the place; must have been done early on a Sunday morning. Now I'll have to go home and dig out the tape so I can watch it again... Doug Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

It totally rocks! Randy

I saw it 20yrs ago as a short before the Who film Quadrophenia. Does anybody remember shorts before feature films ? Anyway, I remember it as one of the neatest bits of motorsports film I've ever seen. Full tilt through the early morning streets of Paris, just about dying at least a half dozen times. There where no credits at the end to avoid prosecution, a real piece of underground motorsports film making. I don't know of anything else like it. I've heard mention that the car was a Ferrari but I had always thought it was a Mini-Cooper. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C.

You guys are making it worse!!! You weren't supposed to rub it in, you're supposed to help me out! :) Soooo.... any one of you guys that happen to be graced with a copy interested in sending a copy up north? :) I'm dying to see it, but a starving student certainly can't convince his gf its reasonable to spend 80 bucks on a 9 min. movie. speed

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0169173 And yes he did that for REAL, there's no special effects. That's the craziest thing here. I've heard that Lelouch got arrested a couple of times while filming this video. If you want to see an article about it, try to find the Autoweek magazine of October 11, 1993 on page 38. I've seen only about 30seconds of it, unfortunately :( -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

And similar stunts were attempted in Britain and Germany with people mounting video cameras on their dashboard, with an additional one mounted facing the speedometer. In one case, the footage ends with the driver piling into the back of an innocent party's car while travelling about 285kph on the Autobahn. It's perverse. With paid laps at Mosport, the Ring, Road Atlanta etc. costing practically nothing, I cannot condone testosterone-charged rich boys playing with their toys on public roads. I won't buy this video, or any similar one. that's my soapbox spiel for the day. Too bad if it makes me look like a bleeding heart. Stephen

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> And similar stunts were attempted in Britain and Germany with people > mounting video cameras on their dashboard, with an additional one mounted > facing the speedometer. In one case, the footage ends with the driver > piling into the back of an innocent party's car while travelling about > 285kph on the Autobahn. It's perverse. With paid laps at Mosport, the > Ring, Road Atlanta etc. costing practically nothing, I cannot condone > testosterone-charged rich boys playing with their toys on public roads. I > won't buy this video, or any similar one. > that's my soapbox spiel for the day. Too bad if it makes me look like a > bleeding heart.

I really, really intended to stay out of this one, but now that the lid is off... I wholeheartedly agree! NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING is cool enough to justify putting other, non participating, people's life and wellbeing on the line! If you have the $$$ to buy a sports car and risk it, fine with me! Feel like putting your own life on the line racing it unmodified at breakneck speeds around closed-off roads, fine with me! But to do as this guy apparently did and blast through open streets just in order to get a testosterone/speed fix is just sick. To film it and sell the tape for profit or to brag is ***ed! And to see people in here wanting to pay $50 for the nine or twelve minutes of it, and even some poster speaking with fascination of how the guy "used pedestrians for apex markers" and ran redlights at full speed is appaling! People get KILLED by jerks doing this shit, fer chrissake! You might as well collect tapes of when those terrorists opened automatic fire on those tourists in Egypt, or tapes of snipers in Sarajevo picking off civilians running across the street to get water. Just try to THINK, people! Do not support this kind of thing! Thanks Steve for being the first to air the voice of reason. I feel ashamed even over the fact that I did not killfile this thread from the start but continued to read it. I was appaled and sickened but found it morbidly fascinating to watch it unfold. /ft, having said his part and getting out of this

It sounds like a great video!!!! Anyone bought it and made any mpgs of this?? NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING is cool enough to justify putting other, non