[Healeys] Rendezvous

[HealeyRick]

What the internet giveth, the internet taketh away. While the soundtrack is
Lelouch's  275 GTB, the car was a Merc:

Pub fact: Although various cars and rumours suggested
an anonymous Formula 1 driver was responsible for piloting a Ferrari
275 GTB, director Claude Lelauch admitted in 2006 that he was
responsible for driving his own 6.9-litre Merc 450 SEL for the film.
Despite being hauled in by Paris police immediately after the film, he
was released without charge, and was double lucky as one of the
spotters employed to warn him of impending problems apparently had
walkie talkie failure after the run had begun.

--- On Sun, 4/5/09, J. Scott Morris <jstmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: J. Scott Morris <jstmorris at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Healeys] Rendezvous
To: "Austin Healey" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1:45 PM

Periodically,B this film footage rears itbs head and sweeps through the car
enthusiast community. B I believe it was last mentioned on this list back in
2003 by Pete Cowper. B B Recently it was on another list I am on and thought
this link would be of interest to the Healey community. B bCbC)tait un
Rendezvousb has been a secret enjoyed for over 30 years by car enthusiasts.
Whisper the words bHave you seen Rendezvousb and youbll receive either a
knowing, bNo, but Ibve heard itbs unbelievableb or a smug, bIt is
un-be-lieve-ableb.B  Now you can be smug: B B http://www.vimeo.com/2250728
B B B or B B B B http://tinyurl.com/c5v8pw
B
French director Claude Lelouch made this 9 minute film usingB a Ferrari
275GTB
racing across Paris streets during early morning dawn.B  He was supposedly
arrested the first time he presented the film and then it simply dived
underground.B  Word has it that he later admitted on a talk show that he was
the driver ... leading the French Motor Vehicles Department to take away his
driver's licence based on his 'public admission'.
B
There are no special effects or blocking off the streets. Lelouch simply
mounted the camera on the front of the car and then takes the viewer on an
astonishing, death-defying drive through the streets of a beautifully filmed
70s Paris with a brutal soundtrack courtesy of the engine, exhaust and tyres.
At the end, the driver hops out of the Ferrari and runs to kiss the lady
awaiting him . . . his bell-bottom trousers dating this film back to the
1970's.B
B
Politically incorrect, anti-establishment and overflowing with a primitive
passion, "C' C)tait un Rendezvous" is the road-users two fingers
up to
bureaucracy.B  Enjoy !!B B

--Scott Morris; Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
J. Scott Morris - Keep Smiling, Murphy Lives
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