Aww c'mon! Can you imagine how much better the FAST AND THE FURIOUS movies would be if they had more action caliope music in them? For some reason, I now want IslandRocks or Weird Al to play the soundtrack to THE ROCK but with a caliope.
Love this sequence. Strangely I have never come upon hot 1974 Alexandra Stewart driving like an F1 champ in a 911 Targa while out on the road, I only ever seem to get stuck behind overweight moms in beat-up minivans too busy yelling at their kids to steer straight.
Love where the Porsche's driver's window is down while off-road, then raised while returning to road and then its targa top is removed prior to reaching town.
This scene is just so much fun, who cares who wins. Porsche flat 6 vs Alfa V8, and to good drivers, who could ask for more. Bravo on the skill level of the young lady. She is one of the better drivers in movies that I've seen.
I'm trying to find the calliope piece used on the soundtrack, but I can only find a few basic songs from this movie on the Roy Budd soundtrack. Anyone know where I could find a clean studio version?
But didn't Goldfinger (1964) do this first? I admit the Goldeneye sequence is very similar to this but everything from mountain scenery to the DB5 is a nod to the earlier Bond.
911 Targa? Even it's name was wrong. Porsche gave it the name 901, having afterwards problems with Peugeot, which had the -0- in the middle of any of its models. I'd say, yellow water cooled beetle targa.
you are confused.. "901" wasn't a name, it was a model type number. they only started with names with the latest models , starting in 96, Boxster, Cayman, Cayenne, Macan And you clearly haven't driven one , you wouldn't be as confused as to calling it a beetle. But it's ok.. the original Beetle was a Porsche too.
Any dame that can drive a 911S Targa like that is ok in my book.. It looks like the MFI on her car is running very rich, which well, you need a rich MFI for optimum performance, but it won't get you far if it's too rich :D
This is a great scene but, honestly its more like a "cat n mouse" type of scene if you will! The music in this particular scene sounds kind of carnival-ish so to speak! I think the music in that scene could have been a little more up beat! Not complaining mind you but, overall a great scene!
@iknowwhereyoulive006 Amen to that!!! There is nothing like being dressed to kill and being behind the wheel of your gorgeous machine when, out of nowhere, appears a sexy woman(also dressed to kill) driving her own gorgeous machine. You demonstrate your skills, she demonstrates hers. It truly is another form of lovemaking!!!
Friends... everyone speaks badly of this background melody in this scene, but NOBODY has said what its name and who plays it. Thanks to someone empathetic to tell me and responde this comment
Uggh, yet another vid that makes me sick that I don't own a racecar . . . Or even a reasonably fast daily driver that can handle . . . or even ANY car at the moment (hard times) . . .That Alfa is one bitchin' car though. Gotta get me some of those gloves for when I drive fast lol. Having your sweaty palms slip off the steering wheel after you jerk the car before cresting a small rise at 95mph (lofting the front wheels) to set the suspension for the oncoming turn is pretty damn scary.
Always Alfa Montreal before any of his coeval Porsches. Oh, and how wrong in terms of best cars, definitely not the here used Targa with the shitty Sportomatic, a semiautomatic with no clutch pedal, which was everything but sporty, was most of the times mistuned and tended to even more mistuning when You raced it hard - while it was originally invented as "the Ladies choice" ... I knew not a single one female Porschista liking it back in the time, though.
What's the message of this movie? That the yellow beetle is better than an Alfa Montreal V8, especially back in '74???? That yellow crap is just a water cooled beetle of the time.
