[Historybuff]

in the actual lead in to the movie it seems like its a couple of minutes of white Cobra. Then this girl tries to pass him and Elvis tries to pass her and ends up in the drink. The car that goes into the drink might have been a Woodhill Wildfire, an early kit car.
I have seen still pictures from the movie where Elvis is in the foreground and the cobra in the background and they have an engine on a chain and it's a huge engine, I don't think a 427, something the size of a Rolls Royce Merlin V-12!

Different movie posters from different countries featured the white Cobra more prominently than the American posters

Regarding Elvis impersonators, met one from Memphis the other day at the Barrett Jackson and it's odd how once you get to talking to him, you feel like you are in the company of Elvis...like you've known him forever. Eerie...