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Re: 1970 v 2006
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2007, 06:15:30 pm »
Another great piece of history is 'La Ronde Infernale' film taken during the 1969 race.

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Agree about 'French Kiss with death', a great read, if I remember correctly the film crew was on site for longer than a month.

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« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2007, 06:26:27 pm »
There's a great story in the book about how, during filming one of the cars came round Indy to find a 'dead body' on the road.
When the driver stopped and got back to the body it turned out to be McQueen, with a stills camera looking for some action shots...
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Re: 1970 v 2006
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2007, 06:26:49 pm »
Thats the fella- it was made by Ford, has in car with whitmore in a GT40, I love the straw bales and white painted trunks on the  Mulsanne trees, those guys had balls. A copy was stuck on the cover of motorsport for free about 3 years ago. Great little film of a classic race.   
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Re: 1970 v 2006
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2007, 06:33:02 pm »
What about the extra (the Ferrari mechanic with the mexican moustache) who took one of the 512s from the solar garage in Arnage into LM one night on a date with some local girl. The Solar guys went apeshit but McQ was well impressed and wanted to know if he had got any ass!
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Re: 1970 v 2006
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2007, 06:39:44 pm »
Quote from: sconefinger on May 25, 2007, 06:26:49 pm
Thats the fella- it was made by Ford, has in car with whitmore in a GT40, I love the straw bales and white painted trunks on the  Mulsanne trees, those guys had balls. A copy was stuck on the cover of motorsport for free about 3 years ago. Great little film of a classic race.   

Sir John Whitmore and McQueen were great mates, McQueen raced his Mini at Brands once I think, so it is possible the filming in 69 was some sort of trial run.

BTW. Whitmore is a top bloke and has even signed my copy of FKwD, he now runs corses on self improvement and is often seen in Crawley!
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Re: 1970 v 2006
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2007, 06:47:15 pm »
Yeah- that mini race was a great scrap apparently. although he's  smiling in the photo I have, McQ was well pissed off that Cristabel Carlisle beat him. I think it was in 66 when he was over here filming  The War Lover. He was also big pals with old 'Dinger' Bell.
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Re: 1970 v 2006
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2007, 09:17:50 pm »
On the subject of good books, i highly recommend Racing In The Rain by John Horsman. I'm sure a few of you already have it, but if not its worth a punt. Quite techie but good none the less.
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