Maserati 300S

Maserati 300S in The Flamingo Kid, Movie, 1984

Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin:

Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Author	Message
nzcarnerd ◊ 2008-03-14 07:31	Possibly a 300S from the mid-'50s.
portacker ◊ 2011-08-21 15:01	The car dealer in this movie seems to handle the best of the best cars. Back then, there is no way that many makes would be under one roof, but it makes for fun watching!
TeMerc ◊ 2018-07-27 23:16	Pretty sure this was a 53 model, it was owned by a friend of mine at the time, Bill Wonder. He also had an GT40 which they filmed but cut it from production release.
dsl ◊ 2018-07-27 23:52	@TeMerc - any further info welcome, including chassis no. if possible. Wiki etc says 300S was 1955 - 1958, so have not entered your suggestion of 1953.
TeMerc ◊ 2020-04-26 20:31	Based on Racing Sports Cars site this is actually a 200s: https://www.racingsportscars.com/driver/photo/William-Wonder-USA.html My 53 model year statement is clearly incorrect, but hey it was ages ago.
J Wonder ◊ 2020-12-08 20:13	It is actually a 300s. The two cars brought to the shoot were the 300s and the GT40 but they did not use the GT40 in the end, the director thought there were too many cars in the shot. We had a 200s but not at the time of the movie shoot.