I'm glad watching this is not illegal. It's too much fun! Come to think of it though, what the driver is doing in his circa 1976 Mercedes (the sound of an "Alpine or Ferrari engine added later," according to a commenter) is for sure illegal. There's an explanation (in the comments within this post but before reading look closely--at the sky, and lights--or not--as visual clues as to the times of day and even year this was filmed. It's very fun, I promise. Most guys will love it but if you're a chica with a need for speed, it's also a blast (though sometimes the buses across intersections were a bit unsettling).
Watch the Film That Inspired It All: C'était un Rendez-vous
Alex Roy's Cannonball dreams started with a movie, but it didn't star Burt Reynolds. The film was C'était un Rendez-vous. Made in 1976, it's a dashing precursor to every Jackass-inspired digicam stunt ever posted on YouTube — nine heart-pounding minutes choreographed to a screaming drivetrain. Through a bumper-mounted camera, the viewer becomes the car — traveling more than 80 mph as the anonymous driver revs into the enormous traffic circle around Paris' Arc de Triomphe, steers hammer-down from the Champs Élysées to Sacré-Coeur in Montmartre (through 16 red lights, wrong-way one-ways, stunned pedestrians, garbage trucks, and median strips (edit/ and many pidgeons--C.) to meet up with a beautiful blonde waiting patiently in the park at the Montmartre church.
Below~ Some comments not my own (including the answer to the type of car this is. Hint: It's more than one!):
Posted by: CKeiser
17 hours ago1 Point
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