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One of the surviving Leslie Specials sold at auction earlier this year.
See: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17#p49

OMG, one of the Leslie specials was sold earlier this year! https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25593/lot/518/ Sold for US$ 112,000 on 27 Apr 2019 from The Tupelo Automobile Museum. 1964 Leslie Special Chassis no. CAR 3 *The legendary hero car from The Great Race *One of four Leslie Specials built for ...

Just putting the most similar pics next to each other... http://leslie-special.info/forum/download/file.php?id=47 http://leslie-special.info/forum/download/file.php?id=49 Funny how the movie plane has what looks like a timber picture frame where the radiator is on the real plane.

Welcome. :) The Wikipedia page for the June Bug states that there was a movie crew there filming, but I don't know if the movie survived, I can't find it. Here's a 1/4 scale model of it being flown in 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgCfzYEXwA Movie info here: http://www.citwf.com/film118310....

By my count, Maggie wears 20 costumes during the movie. I've shown them all at http://leslie-special.info/costumes1.htm However, #8 and #10 are the same, the only time she ever changes back to an identical costume. This may be simply due to the order in which the scenes were shot. 13, 14, 15 and 16 ...

Jack Lemmon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon ⋅ A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father. [2005 Chris Lemmon] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1557837392 Tony Curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis ⋅ Tony Curtis: The Autobiography [1993 Tony Curtis and Barr...

It does appear that there were at least two torpedoes. ⋅  was used for the "out of water" shots, and has a propellor. ⋅  was used for high speed "in water" shots, has no propellor, and has extra stabiliser fins attached either side of the nose, a tow hook belo...

... I just noticed how strange the black-tires look on the Leslie-Special when I looked at that picture again from my previous post. I never even noticed it before today. Fred Stahl really does drive that car around a few times a year, so obviously the original white tyres have worn out, or have be...