on an august morning in 1978, french filmmaker claude lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a ferrari 275 gtb Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 and had a friend, a professional formula 1 race car driver, drive at breakneck speeds through the heart of paris.


He was arrested after his 1976 film, C’était un rendez-vous, featuring a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 being illegally driven at high speed through the streets of Paris, was first shown publicly.

Head over to Tons of Land to watch this 8-minute film that at times, feels too ridiculous to be real (and I mean that in a good way).