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General TR Sports cars in old movies

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TRspitfirefan said:
I believe that movie was Spinout
It was another Elvis movie, also it was perhaps the worst racing movie EVER!
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Spinout featured Elvis driving a 289 comp Cobra:

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That didn't quite look the same once it went for a dip:

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The swimmer "Cobra" was actually a "Mistral" fiberglass body on an Austin-Healey chassis:


https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/11/03/spinout-slipup-what-car-stood-in-for-the-wet-cobra/
 
There was a movie made for TV "Mrs 'arris goes to Paris" that had a lo fifties vintage cars, trucks and buses- BMW 328, the 504(?) sedan and other cars. Angela Lansberrt, Omar Sharif, the Emma Peel woman.
 
:adoration: "the Emma Peel woman" the Lotus Elan woman, Diana Rigg
 
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