{"id":1024,"date":"2010-08-23T22:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T21:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:44:25","slug":"fast-cars-no-loose-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/fast-cars-no-loose-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast cars (no loose women)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Nack<\/a> has just posted a link to a rather insipid video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ncCKemPij2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Coulthard driving an AMG Merc<\/a> around the Isle of Man. It didn&#8217;t really do much for me, but did inspire me to write a quick post about two of the greatest driving videos ever.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I want to point out is another Mercedes, being driven around Paris in 1976. The film is called &#8220;<em>C&#8217;\u00e9tait un rendez-vous<\/em>&#8220;, but often referred to just as &#8220;<em>Rendezvous<\/em>&#8220;. It was shot at 05:30 on a Sunday in August (the month most people go on holiday); this was on open roads with no official approval &#8211; there has been no editing of the video footage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"C&#039;\u00e9tait un Rendezvous trailer HD\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jXBOzxPspuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not a fan of YouTube then you can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfire.net\/video\/ctait-un-rendez-vous-claude-lelouchflv_2064708.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. For more background info see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C'\u00e9tait_un_rendez-vous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2007\/11\/most-radical-car-movie-of-all-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Roasted Blend<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextbook.com\/facts\/2005\/Rendezvous.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hypertextbook<\/a>, or buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritlevelfilm.com\/films\/motoring\/cetait-un-rendezvous-limited-edition-bluray.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blu-ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other video which should really get a mention is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climb_Dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climb Dance<\/a>, which shows <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ari_Vatanen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ari Vatanen<\/a> doing the Pike&#8217;s Peak hill climb in Colorado in 1988. There are massive drops as he snakes his way up the hill in a Peugeot 405 T16. He&#8217;s absolutely on the ragged edge, but also unbelievably fast. Incredibly so.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J-K1B4sTX4o<br \/>\nAlso available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=c&#039;etait+un+rendezvous&amp;tbm=vid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also using this post as an excuse to spread the love for the Lancia Delta Integrale, one of the most beautiful cars ever made:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The very best of Lancia Delta Integrale\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPZ1jqhFDkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So there we go, just thought I&#8217;d bring those to your attention. Obviously there are plenty of excellent car sequences in films (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qw4SU2JcnqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=82BjhIs9m8k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>), but these are two excellent displays of real-life driving which might easily pass people by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Nack has just posted a link to a rather&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[484,489,488,1105,491,482,490,486,485,483,487],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","tag-ari-vatanen","tag-cetait-un-rendez-vous","tag-car-paris","tag-cars","tag-delta-integrale-hf-4wd","tag-driving","tag-lancia-delta","tag-peugeot-405-t16","tag-pikes-peak","tag-rally","tag-rendezvous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}