[Roadsters] Fwd: Paris by Auto- can you spot the Datsun Roadster?

[Bill Oakes]

Some may remember that  Nissan did a take-off on this when they release the
350z, pretty slick:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/933312/3664676



On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:47 PM, RWM (Out of the Office) <RWM at rwmann.com>wrote:

> The dynamics don't make any match up with the audio, nor do they make
> visual sense with the claimed speeds.
> Note the rate of overtaking of cars and roadside objects and fly-by pigeons
> versus the sound track pitch increase and gear changes.
>
> I'll guess Citroen or Renault and a post-production audio mixer.
>
> - Bob
>
>
> ljordan704 at netscape.net wrote:
>
>>  The comments claim it was a Mercedes and that the audio was dubbed.
>> Maybe a racer would know.
>> Linda
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gregory S. Morrison <gsm at gregorysmorrison.com>
>> To: chalsted <chalsted at comcast.net>; datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
>> Sent: Fri, 15 May 2009 9:23 am
>> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Fwd: Paris by Auto- can you spot the Datsun
>> Roadster?
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>> When the pounding heartbeat in the tunnel gives way to the screaming
>> V-12.....
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>> ...does anybody have a cigarette? And I don't smoke!
>>
>> WATCH THIS MOVIE! It's called Rendezvous. Absolutely amazing. You'll watch
>> it again and again.
>>
>> -Greg
>> SRL31100494
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>> On 5/15/09 7:09 AM, "chalsted at comcast.net" <chalsted at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> B
>>> Is it better to be skillful, lucky or just blissfully insane???B  This
>>> crazy
>>> bastard is all 3.
>>> Turn the sound up---the Ferrari's engine sounds fantastic!
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> ofB
>>> Paris early in the morning . The film was limited for technical reasons
>>> to 10
>>> minutes; the course was from PorteB Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the
>>> Basilica of Sacre Coeur. B  No streets were closed, for Lelouch was
>>> unable to
>>> obtain a permit. B  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. B  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.B  If you haven ' t seen this before it is a
>>> classic, if you have seen it I apologize, but it ' s still a classic.B
>>> Turn on
>>> your sound and enjoy...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo
>>>
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