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Wiki says …….. Mille Miglia.
The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in London with location work in Italy, including footage of the Mille Miglia, and scenes at Lake Como. It was based on an original screenplay by Robert Estridge.
The movie features the Lotus Mark 10 Aston Martin.[4] John Wyer and Roy Salvadori worked on the film as advisers. “Steel handled the car with surprising ease—and it isn’t an easy thing to drive,” said Wyer.
Anthony Steel married Anita Ekberg during the making of the film.
Now I have to track down the whole movie to watch.
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The entire movie can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpNV_R-R8c
It’s a poor movie, but a lot of great cameo appearances by in era cars: Healey 100-4 (look closely) , Aston Martin DB2/4’s, loads of Ferrari’s, MG A’s, plenty of Alfa Romeo Giulietta Coupes, Porsche 356’s, Maserati’s, possibly an OSCA, possiply a Fiat 1600, a gullwing 300SL, and of course the stars, a couple of reworked Aston Martin DB3S’s I think. :yahoo:
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As it turns out I missed quite a few and mis-identified a couple as well?? The biggest gaff being mis-identification of one of the stars, a reworked Lagonda DP115 V-12 :scratch:
And so from the ‘way more information than you ever wanted’ department, a rather more complete compilation of the cars seen in the movie can be found here.
https://www.imcdb.org/m49065.html
From one of the comments about the Lagonda:
“This project was given a code DP115, which was chassis reference DP 115/1 and 2, with a third spare chassis being built but not used. The maiden outing was Silverstone in May 1954 when Reg Parnell took DP 115/1 to 5th place despite oil pressure problems. DP 115/1 crashed at Le Mans in June the same year, after achieving 148.27 mph on the Mulsanne Straight. Reg Parnell achieved 4th place in DP 115/2 at Silverstone in July. This was the Legonda’s best result. According to John Wyers account in “Racing with David Brown Aston Matins”, DP 115/1 was given a new chassis frame, believed to be DP 115/3 at the end of 1954 while the damaged to the rear body was repaired. …… In 1955 there was a suggestion that many of the components from DP 115/1 as well as the engine and transmission were built in to DP 166/1, which had a more modern space frame chassis and disc brakes, and the body discarded, ending up in Coleys West London yard. The only race that the revised car DP 166/1 completed in was the 1955 Le Mans, when it retired after 93 laps having run out of fuel, apparently due to a wrongly fitted and leaking fuel cap. Subsequently, the chassis frame from DP 166/1 was stripped, and the components reassembled into 115/3 with a new body and this and DP 115 /2 were refurbished for the film Checkpoint.” B-)
Find more here:
http://hyde1841.blogspot.ca/2012/05/lagonda-dp115.html
The car in the movie may well have been this one with the two outer grills closed in and the Lagonda badge replaced with a larger but similar Ingram Motors badge.
Notice the hulking quad cam V-12 engine with the three 4 barrel downdrafts that necessitated the tall hood scoop!
After much sorting of the V-12 motor, one does quite well in Vintage events today. Seen here at Goodwood. :yahoo:
You can see the visual similarity to the DB3S.
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