I suspect many have already seen this, it has been bouncing around the interweb for a long time; It's the film "C'etait un rendez-vous" By Claude Lelouche. The sound is overdubbed, but the film was made by mounting a camera on the bumper of a 6.9.
This link didn't work for me. Damn furrin character sets. Try:
Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB. Several independent groups have verified that the car in the film never reaches past
140kmh(85mph)."
I've not seen any of Lelouche's films since he directed "A Man and a Woman" with Anouk Aimée in 1966. That picture was the essence of racing and showed the first shots of a Ford GT 40. The film was sensational, and his use of color to enhance the happier parts contrasted with a change to B&W for the more serious unhappier parts. Even the theme song inspired me while running through the twisty back roads from Bakersfield, CA to the coast in my new 911.
Your heads up makes me wish I had cable or even DSL! But it's not available where I live and a Dish won't work here in the forest.
Thanks for the info.
James
The "Is it fake or isn't it?" debate (see link below video) is amusing.
DAS
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I was interested to learn from the wikipedia entry that Claude Lelouche is the same director who did "A Man And a Woman."
"Dah dah daaah...dub-a-dub-a-duh, wub-a-dub-ah-duh..."
The male lead in that film was a racing driver, as I recall. (He drove a Mustang.) So Lelouche would certainly seem to qualify as a "car guy."
Geoff
Just curious, James. What model is your new 911? I drove my son's new
911 Carrera this past weekend and I am still dreaming about it!Hernando
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