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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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To: NurdlyPeon

They were the same thing except the Tiger had a V8 engine.

Sort of a poor man’s Cobra.


41 posted on 06/14/2019 5:57:55 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Billthedrill

Ejector seat? You must be joking.


42 posted on 06/14/2019 6:05:15 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Billthedrill

Ejector seat? You must be joking.


43 posted on 06/14/2019 6:05:19 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Bonemaker

Those would be rather big and heavy.

30 caliber would make more sense.


44 posted on 06/14/2019 6:06:38 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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45 posted on 06/14/2019 6:12:19 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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46 posted on 06/14/2019 6:14:44 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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47 posted on 06/14/2019 6:17:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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48 posted on 06/14/2019 6:18:02 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Agent Maxwell Smart also drove a Sunbeam.
Yes. Then he drove Mustang convertibles, and an Opel GT in the last season.
49 posted on 06/14/2019 6:45:48 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: ETL
I couldn't find a Matchbox James Bond car. You sure it wasn't a Corgi?
Matchbox never made a model of the James Bond Aston. In 1958 they released a replica of an earlier version, the DB 2/4, like the one Lesney Smith, a co-founder of Lesney once owned.

50 posted on 06/14/2019 6:53:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Impala64ssa

Nice! Thanks.

During the 60s, my mom used to buy me one Matchbox car a week. Couldn’t wait for that day. Had a great collection at one time. Years later, figuring I was grown and didn’t need or want them anymore, threw them in the garbage!

I would have loved to still have that collection, solely for the memories. I doubt I would ever have sold them.


51 posted on 06/14/2019 7:00:36 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL
OH, NO! But just like my 64 Chevy, back then nobody thought they'd ever by worth anything big. I still collect Matchbox. It all started when my aunt and uncle bought me a bunch of them for my 9th birthday and I just kept adding to it. You know what they say

52 posted on 06/14/2019 7:13:51 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: wally_bert

I never joke about my work.


53 posted on 06/14/2019 7:27:51 PM PDT by nvskibum
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To: ETL

Had the Matchbox car when little. Working features.
Wish I still had that one.


54 posted on 06/14/2019 8:15:29 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: ETL

My father took me and my sister to see this car at the Norfolk, VA Sears around 1965. It was absolutely beautiful. I remember the trunk was open. There was a tank, like an oxygen tank inside. Sears was giving away toy DB5’s (post #34). My sister won one. I got it for Christmas. If you pulled the antenna up and down, the rear tag would rotate. I think there’s a picture of this feature on the box. The picture on the upper left.


55 posted on 06/14/2019 9:26:59 PM PDT by Daaave ("When a man loses everything else, he still has the sea.")
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To: ETL

Boy Toy for the kid who has everything else.


56 posted on 06/15/2019 12:34:36 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ETL

I can’t count the number of times I wished I had some of the “improvements” that Aston Martin had!


57 posted on 06/15/2019 12:56:33 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: Impala64ssa
I still collect Matchbox. It all started when my aunt and uncle bought me a bunch of them for my 9th birthday and I just kept adding to it.


I was shocked that not only do they still make a lot of the old-school Matchbox type toy cars, they're making them cooler than ever.

For example...

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58 posted on 06/15/2019 4:19:12 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: Impala64ssa; All
Same is true on the plastic scale-model front.

Not only is the hobby still around, but they're building them better than ever...

Check out this thread I posted last year. There's way too much to re-post here....

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Plastic model car hot rods & customs (many pics)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3696532/posts

59 posted on 06/15/2019 4:35:06 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Not only the models, but the paint as well. Testers makes some of the old Chrysler colors, Plum Crazy, Purple Passion, etc as well as the authentic engine colors, Ford blue, Chevy orange, under license from the carmakers.


60 posted on 06/15/2019 8:28:10 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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