Posted on 11/22/2021 11:53:48 AM PST by mylife
ased in the United States, the Ian Fleming Foundation was formed nearly three decades ago when Doug Redenius, Dr. Michael L. VanBlaricum, and John Cork began acquiring an impressive collection of vehicles from the James Bond movies. And it all started with a submarine.
The wet submersible Neptune from the Bond film For Your Eyes Only was up for sale in 1992. It had been donated to a museum in New York, which had it on display for some time. However, the museum didn’t specialize in movie or military history and the curator decided to get rid of it.
Catching wind of the Bond memorabilia for sale, Redenius and friends pooled their money to buy the Neptune for $3,000. They purchased “a really big flat trailer,” he says, and hauled it back to Chicago. Then they had to figure out where to put it.
It ended up in Redenius’ back yard, where it was quite the neighborhood spectacle. The Neptune wasn’t heavy, because it lacked an engine, but it was still a giant monstrosity akin to Clifford the Big Red Dog. Word of the backyard mini-Bond exhibit started to spill out, and People magazine came calling to cover the story for what turned out to be a multi-page spread.
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this was the title of the post.
Meet the Man Who Owns 41 James Bond Vehicles
Doug Redenius, co-founder of the Ian Fleming Foundation, started the collection with the submarine from For Your Eyes Only.
Ooh, I want that one.
Probably should have bought the one that was on ebay many years ago. Except I didn’t have the money back then. I think.
I love that car.
Is that a die cast?
There is a die cast Speed Racer.
It’s the original
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