Daytona Coupe In The MONKEES

[ShelbyLuva]

Was the blue street 427 in Gumball Rally real? Which chassis #?

[eljimb0]

Originally Posted by tesgt350

Has anyone here ever seen the Movie "HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS"? It is my All Time Favorite Movie. It has a Cobra in it as part of the Story. Tony Danza drove a Blown Yellow 1957 Chevy that LOST to the Cobra in a Street Race. At the end of the Movie, the Purple People Eater Rail Job blew the doors off the Cobra. Does anyone know if the Cobra was Real or a Kit?
David.

I see that this thread has floated back up to the surface and I have some interesting background information about that car. The cobra was real, it was a race car originally. It flipped in the rain in the 1966 Glen 500 with driver Bob Grossman at the wheel. The co-driver was Frank Dominiani of Valley Stream, New York. They were leading the race at the time. I was a pit crew member of a Jaguar also in the race driven by Janet Guthrie (we were DNF also). Robert Wuhl the actor in "Hollywood Knights" with the "microphone trick" was a college roommate and a friend of mine.
jimbo

[427SnakeSC]

Shelbyluva, the Cobra used in Gumball Rally was CSX 3255.

[computerworks]

427SnakeSC-

You are leeching videos off of one of my servers:

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Please remove the links immediately.

Thanks

[Calvin]

Originally Posted by dc-dd

I believe the Daytona coupe in the Monkeys show was the one owned by Phil Specter!!!!! That car is now here in Philadelphia in private collection I got in to see the car a year or so ago and what an awsome car it is. I will post some pictures

Dominic

I would really like to see pictures of CSX2287 now. I saw pictures when the current owner first got it, and I of course have copies of the few pictures taken of the car sitting in the storage container over the years, but none since then. What does it look like now? I would love to know how to see it on trips to Philadelphia sometime....

[bitzman]

It would be interesting to know if the Spector car was still in Spector's hands when it was in the Monkees show. Spector gave the car to his bodyguard when he got too many tickets cruising Sunset with it and the rest is history, involving a burning woman, $3 million, etc. etc. It was SN 2287.

Regarding Elvis Presley and the white 427 Cobra, what process is it called (besides plagerism) where you can stop a movie on a particular frame and then print out that scene with clarity? I'd like to do that in the opening scene of Spinout where The King is cruising along in the white 427 for what seems like 30 seconds, front 3/4 view. Then he somehow crashes and the cheap movie makers substitute the Cobra with some kit car, looks like Kellison. Actually I should be glad they didn't crash a real Cobra. Anyhow I'll rent the film and the equipment if anyone can name what equipment you need to capture a single frame from a movie?

[rsimkins]

Originally Posted by bitzman

Anyhow I'll rent the film and the equipment if anyone can name what equipment you need to capture a single frame from a movie?

I think that if you stick a copy of the movie on DVD in a computer, you can stop it on the frame you want and capture that image. No additional equipment to rent.