Daytona Coupe In The MONKEES

Very Cool.............Thanks!

 

I haven't seen that one before.

 

I like that one.

 

I always like watching the older TV Shows like the Monkee's, Andy Grifith, and others and old Movies like the original "Gone in 60 Seconds, "Its a Mad Mad Mad World" and most of Elvis's Movies because you cn see a lot of cool classic Cars in the Back Ground. In the original Gone in 60 Seconds" movie, while being chased, Ellenaor zooms past a Grabber Blue 1970 BOSS 302, almost clipping the Left Rear Qurter Panel. The BOSS was NOT one of the Movie Cars either. A lot of Elvis Movies had Cobra's, Shelby's and Mustangs in them. Oh year.....dont for get the Love Bug Movies..........LOL.
David.

 

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 Spy had one sceen with a very young Ron Howard that had a 427 Cobra in the parking lot as well as a '66 G.T.350 (I think it was in the same show).

My favorite Cobra movie has to be Gumball Ralley. I recently picked it up as part of a double feature. It was bundled with Cannonball II. I've watched Gumball several times. I have yet to see Cannonball.

 

If the Daytona car number (13) is correct, that is the one currently owned by Larry Miller that was at SAAC-32 in Utah and is kept in his museum at the track or at his Shelby American Museum in Colorado. It would be the Daytona on the SAAC 32 ball cap. Larry should run this video in the
Museum.

 

I watch reruns of Rockford Files and Adam12 when they drive around you see Shelbys on the streets or in drive ways. Who has the 68 Shelby convert that was in Get Smart and the red 69 Shelby Convert that Bill Cosby drove in his T.V show when he played a Gym teacher?

Mike

 

A 68 GT500 Convertible in Poor condition was recently sold locally here in South eastern Pa. claimed to have been originally owned by Don Adams. the car is a lime Gold 4 speed.

 

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

 

Some history of Phil Spectors Daytona Coupe (be sure to click for photos). S This story would make a great made for TV movie.
http://www.norcal-saac.org/archive/csx2287.html

 

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

 

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