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James Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5 worth millions going to auction
FoxNews.com.auto ^ | June 14, 2019 | Gary Gastelu | Fox News

Posted on 06/14/2019 4:14:38 PM PDT by ETL

An original Aston Martin DB5 built to James Bond’s specifications is heading to the auction block this summer.

The silver 1965 coupe is identical to the one 007 drove in “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball,” complete with all the gadgets.

The car wasn’t used on-screen, but was one of a pair ordered by Eon Productions to promote the latter film.

Last sold in 2006 for $2,090,000, the car has been fully restored and the features installed by Q Branch, including its bulletproof screen, extendable bumpers, rotating license plates and smoke screen all function, although the machine gun barrels that emerge from the front marker lights only spit flames, not rounds.

There’s also a removable roof panel to accommodate the passenger-side ejector seat, and a red button in the gearshift to activate it, but you’ll have to press it to find out if it actually works.

The car will be offered at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction in August and will be making a U.S. tour before then.

It comes up for sale just as Aston Martin is building 25 brand-new recreations of the car that will be sold for $3.5 million each and aren’t even street legal.

As for the vehicle that appeared in the film, there were actually two.

One of them was auctioned in 2010 for $4.6 million and is currently in a private car museum in Ohio, while the other was stolen from a hangar at Boca Raton airport in Florida and hasn’t been seen since.

The two movie cars and two promotional cars are the only ones commissioned by the production company at the time.

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1 posted on 06/14/2019 4:14:38 PM PDT by ETL
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2 posted on 06/14/2019 4:14:51 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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the machine gun barrels that emerge from the front marker lights only spit flames, not rounds.

Well forget it, then.

3 posted on 06/14/2019 4:18:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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4 posted on 06/14/2019 4:19:26 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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Does the driver’s side door squeak when it’s opened?


5 posted on 06/14/2019 4:19:41 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: ETL

I remember seeing of these , pulling out of a pub , near Henley-on-Thames in lovely rural England . The throaty purr of those 12 cylinders is a sound I will not forget .


6 posted on 06/14/2019 4:26:24 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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I still love the Aston Martin which Tippi Hedren drove in “The Birds”.


7 posted on 06/14/2019 4:26:32 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: LeoWindhorse

One of these , old Astin Martin’s, probably not the exact same model , but vintage and niiiiiiice ......


8 posted on 06/14/2019 4:27:25 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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9 posted on 06/14/2019 4:27:43 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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Oh, wait. Ejection seat for an obnoxious passenger? Yeah...yeah, I’d go for that...


10 posted on 06/14/2019 4:29:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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11 posted on 06/14/2019 4:31:18 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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12 posted on 06/14/2019 4:34:55 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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In the first Bond....Dr. No .....Connery drove a Sunbeam Alpine........borrowed from a local resident.

The notorious chase scene.

13 posted on 06/14/2019 4:35:02 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

Agent Maxwell Smart also drove a Sunbeam.


14 posted on 06/14/2019 4:40:37 PM PDT by yarddog
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Somewhere in my attic I still have the Matchbook car of this (from the 60’s or 70’s). Spring loaded release buttons for the front rams, the rear window shield and the passenger ejection seat!


15 posted on 06/14/2019 4:42:20 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: ETL

Last sold in 2006 for $2,090,000, the car has been fully restored and the features installed by Q Branch, including its bulletproof screen, extendable bumpers, rotating license plates and smoke screen all function, although the machine gun barrels that emerge from the front marker lights only spit flames, not rounds. = = =

Does it include the chicks (oops, I mean birds)?


16 posted on 06/14/2019 4:42:26 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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Agent Maxwell Smart also drove a Sunbeam.
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Alpine or Tiger?

Or with Agent 99, who cares.


17 posted on 06/14/2019 4:44:34 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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I am not sure. I want to say Tiger but not certain.


18 posted on 06/14/2019 4:46:59 PM PDT by yarddog
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Real machine guns or cut the price 75%! That’s my only offer. :)


19 posted on 06/14/2019 4:48:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 21twelve
Somewhere in my attic I still have the Matchbook car of this (from the 60’s or 70’s). Spring loaded release buttons for the front rams, the rear window shield and the passenger ejection seat!

I couldn't find a Matchbox James Bond car. You sure it wasn't a Corgi?




20 posted on 06/14/2019 4:49:49 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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