The actor and car enthusiast Jean-Paul Belmondo passed away on Monday, September 6 at the age of 88. Discover its magnificent garage.
It was the Professional, the Magnificent, the Alpager, the Rio Man Where Pierrot le fou… This Monday, Jean-Paul Belmondo died at his Parisian home: « he had been very tired for some time. He died quietly », specified in the AFP Me Godest, his lawyer. On the screen as on the roads, the actor with 60 years of career appeared behind the wheel of the most wonderful cars of his time.
“Oh, I loved them all,” confided Jean-Paul Belmondo. au magazine Car Life en 2013, I had some really great cars. It’s true that Ferraris were my favorite: the California was very beautiful, but the 250 GT Tour de France was also a marvel, even though the gearbox was really, really hard. THE’Aston Martin DB5, I loved it so much that I had two, a gray and then a burgundy. The Dino 246, AC Bristol, Panther Lima, Ferrari 308, Daimler, which I sold to Maria Pacôme and whose engine broke just after. I remember she was not happy. And the Lotus Elan ”.
The love of mechanics was passed on to his son Paul, author of two seasons in Formula 1 (1992 and 1994).
And on the screen? The scenes are too many to allow completeness. Dozens of stunts, performed in particular with Rémy Julienne, come to mind. One of the most striking is the 5-meter jump in a Fiat Uno in the unforgettable Happy Easter in 1983. Or the spectacular skids in a Ford Mustang in Le Marginal. But the most beautiful, for moviegoers, is perhaps the simplest: an azure Ford Fairlane plunging into the Mediterranean, angering Anna Karina. It was in Pierrot le fou, by Jean-Luc Godard.
=> The most beautiful waterfalls of Rémy Julienne (VIDEO)
Jean-Paul Belmondo was 88 years old.
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The actor and car enthusiast Jean-Paul Belmondo passed away on Monday, September 6 at the age of 88. Discover its magnificent garage.
It was the Professional, the Magnificent, the Alpager, the Rio Man Where Pierrot le fou… This Monday, Jean-Paul Belmondo died at his Parisian home: « he had been very tired for some time. He died quietly », specified in the AFP Me Godest, his lawyer. On the screen as on the roads, the actor with 60 years of career appeared behind the wheel of the most wonderful cars of his time.
“Oh, I loved them all,” confided Jean-Paul Belmondo. au magazine Car Life en 2013, I had some really great cars. It’s true that Ferraris were my favorite: the California was very beautiful, but the 250 GT Tour de France was also a marvel, even though the gearbox was really, really hard. THE’Aston Martin DB5, I loved it so much that I had two, a gray and then a burgundy. The Dino 246, AC Bristol, Panther Lima, Ferrari 308, Daimler, which I sold to Maria Pacôme and whose engine broke just after. I remember she was not happy. And the Lotus Elan ”.
The love of mechanics was passed on to his son Paul, author of two seasons in Formula 1 (1992 and 1994).
And on the screen? The scenes are too many to allow completeness. Dozens of stunts, performed in particular with Rémy Julienne, come to mind. One of the most striking is the 5-meter jump in a Fiat Uno in the unforgettable Happy Easter in 1983. Or the spectacular skids in a Ford Mustang in Le Marginal. But the most beautiful, for moviegoers, is perhaps the simplest: an azure Ford Fairlane plunging into the Mediterranean, angering Anna Karina. It was in Pierrot le fou, by Jean-Luc Godard.
=> The most beautiful waterfalls of Rémy Julienne (VIDEO)
Jean-Paul Belmondo was 88 years old.
Photo by: Georges Biard / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
To read on auto-moto.com:
Claude Brasseur: the man, his films and his cars
The cars of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
Giscard’s four measures that transformed the automobile
The incredible cars of singer Christophe
The 70 most influential cars of the 1970s
Jacques Chirac and cars
The most extravagant cars of foreign footballers
The most spectacular cars of French football players
