hot rodder's watched this movie and it featured a Cobra rather nonchalantly. an officer gets in it and starts it up and pulls off in it. which is right on the money. that would be who bought a Cobra in '63-64. somebody with money looking to spend it on something cool. it might just be the only movie showing a Cobra. if you keep your eyes open they're also a 'floating headlight' Chrysler product. have a nice day!
More Shelby fun: Redline 7000 1965 Movie. A real Cobra Daytona figures prominately. Honey West 1965–1966 TV series. An early Cobra is the primary mode of transportaion for private detective Honey West played by Anne Francis.
Didn't Elvis total one in the movie spinout? There were several others racing if I recall. edit: oops to slow. edit edit; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exewxQ0vi2Q
In the 60s during the Viet Nam War towns outside military bases everywhere in the States had at least one Sports Car dealership (British, Jags, A-H, MG, and others) and another selling American factory hotrods (GTOs, Big Block anything, Shelby Mustangs etc.) in used and sometimes new cars as well. Many of these cars were bought by Officers, Non-coms, and enlisted men then when they shipped out the payment book and paperwork were passed on to another GI who may or may not make the the payments. It was truly amazing the fabulous mix of quality hot cars that were bought, sold, traded in those years in and around military bases.
Elvis didn't crash a Cobra, at least not into the water. The crash scene used a stunt double. It was a "Mistral", based on an Austin-Healey:
In the "Tammy" TV show one of her suitors drove a 427. My earliest cobra memory. And don't forget "The Killers" which featured a black 289 and a speed crazed Angie dickinson.
remember a guy comming back from the air force who was driving a cobra in 1969, Bet he wishes he kept it
Did that movie have Steve McQeen in it? I kinda remember it. Guess I'll have to watch for it to come back around.
When I was in Nam, you could buy any new car you wanted at the base PX for a payment every month. If you lived, you could pick up your new car at any dealership when you got back to the States. There was a woman sales person at our base, we called Mustang Sally. One of my friends bought rolex seahorse and a 68 Porshe Targa, picked it up in LA and drove it home to Wisconson. I got a Nova 350 SS and some sharp taylor made suits and shoes. (the woman go crazy for a sharp dressed man!)ZZ Tops
This movie is available for instant viewing if you have NETFLIX. I recently watched it ... some pretty good old Nascar footage. Spoiler alert .. They actually put the Daytona coupe in a ditch for one scene!
Not quite any car you wanted. I couldn't wait to get to the car dealer tent and order my dream. A 1969 Dodge Daytona, Plum crazy purple with a white interior and a white vinyl top. Hemi w/ a 4 speed. Got there and was told nope, can't get that. Offered me a purple Dart 440 w/ auto. Turned it down. What a dummy I was.
1969...the guy next door was a local fireman. He bought this used 289/Webers Cobra for $4,000 and we all were stunned at that kind of money for a used car. Here's a shot with my Model A. While hindsight is one thing, the reality was another. That still was a lot of money and nobody would have ever guessed that these would be so valuable today. This fireman guy bought and sold a Mangusta, the Cobra, a black 427 Cobra, a few 1960's Maseratis, etc. for chump change back in those days. Nobody would have ever imagined. My Dad and I went to a dealership in Long Beach in 1967 and looked at a new 427 Cobra on the showroom which was $7,000....THAT was a ton of dough. Even in the early 1970's a friend and I went to a Fiat dealership in Monrovia and looked at a brand new Ferrari Daytona coupe that was $23,000. Geez.....you could buy a house with a pool for that.
Your right Maz!! My folks bought a new brick 3 bedroom house in '71 and it went for $28,500... It still looks like brand new...
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