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Sometimes a movie can influence your love of automobiles, driving and sports cars. So what movie or video is your favorite? I love the Bond films of course, but my all time favorite is a French film called C’etait un Rendezvous by Claude Lelouch where in the early morning he drives a Ferrari 275 GTB across Paris all out.
It is a short film, only around 9 minutes long but definitely worth a look. Go to YouTube and watch the highest quality version you can find, and make sure you turn the volume way up! The sound is intoxicating! I have a copy on DVD so I don’t have a link to share.
Now tell me me your favorite so I can watch it and maybe find a new favorite!
Bored on a Sunday night.
Mark
Mark great video to watch
but apparently he did it in a 6.9L merc & overdubbed the Ferrari
still the father of all car videos & just amazing nerve
Graeme
After watching it, as I don't think I'd ever seen it, I was dumbstuck at how fake it seemed. That car was maybe doing 80 at the most in some spots, and far less most of the time. The overtaking speeds were down right slow, the static street environ passed, slow, you have a Ferrari running 5000rpm in 5th gear and there's no way that car was doing anywhere near the speeds associated with the soundtrack. Having driven like a douce my whole life, it wasn't even close. Yea, he ran a lot of red lights, most of them at any real speed had wide open sight lines, the ones in the narrow streets are at far lower speeds. Although, it did sound good, it did "look" good, it was exciting, it just wasn't close to real.
Then I watched the how to video and I think he still played it up to be more than it actually was.
For a 3min video, this one was and still is one of my all time favorites even tho it's grainy by todays standards. Inspired me when I was making my own racing videos (SCCA rally and NASA CMC).
oon the lighter side... Days of Thunder had some good car and racing sequences, although the cars can only turn left...
I was big into NASCAR a few years after that came out. Hated the continuity errors. Close up of dirty bashed up cars swerving, next shot was wide, clean cars 'real' racing. I thought Talladega Nights was 10x better in that aspect. Though they all have the "want to go faster? Just SHIFT!" nonsense.
For me it has to be, of course, Cannonball Run, as it's autobiographical since I drove in the original Cannonball race on which the film was based. Burt Reynolds played my character! By the way, the real race was way more exciting than the movie.
All those are decent, but without a doubt, the best car movie ever filmed is: Gone In 60 Seconds
Not the lame Nick Cage knockoff, the real, original movie. Written, directed and starred in by the infamous H.B. Halicki.
The cast of significant cars involved has never been matched, not even close.
Best car movie, ever...
