Le Mans
Grand Prix

 

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.

 

I just saw "ts a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and was amazed by the stunt driving in the moving made in 1962 using old cars and little safety measures

 

No love for the Blue Brothers?

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).

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.

 

THIS short clip :
"just watch this for a breathtaking display of forceful driving"

Movies: Le Mans, Vanishing Point (71), Bullit, each on it's own rights...

Thomas

 

How about the Charlie Sheen movie "The Wraith" VelocityAPs DB9 SuperSport exhaust has a low end tone almost just like the Wraith sound.

Another Charlie Sheen Movie about 911's being stolen was "No Mans Land"

 

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.