Death defying
stunts, seductive spies, driving on two wheels, crashing barricades
and top-secret documents - The Bond Car has seen them all.
007 has always emerged unscathed from all these escapades,
and the same may also be said of the Bond Car.
Like beautiful women, the beautiful cars of Bond movies have survived
three decades and the cold war. Many cars have appeared in Bond Movies,
and in the first of the series we cover the most popular - the Aston
Martin - which featured in no less than five movies.
Aston Martin DB5 (Goldfinger - 1964, Thunderball
- 1965 Sean Connery)
The Aston Martin in "Goldfinger" is, without question,
the most famous of all Bond cars, with gizmos and gadgets that probably
no other has ever matched. The car in question was a silverbirch
1963 Aston Martin DB5 from their plant in England. Some of
the interesting features of the car were:
- revolving number plates, valued in all countries
- passenger ejector seat
- bulletproof front-and-rear windscreen
- machine-guns in the front of the car
- oil-slick at the back of the car
- retractable tire-shredders built into the wheel hubs
The DB5 was eventually bought by collector Anthony Pugliese, 22 years
later, from a Sotheby' auction in 1986. He owned the car for 11 years
and used it extensively for displays and exhibitions. Unfortunately
this classic car is now lost to posterity for, in June 1997, it was
stolen from the Boca Airport Hangar, where it used to be kept.
Aston Martin DBS (1969 - On Her Majesty's Secret
Service - George Lazenby)
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" starred the new
Bond - George Lazenby, and befittingly his car in the movie was
the new Aston Martin DBS from the 1969 DB series.
The 6-cylinder version of the Aston Martin was however seen only
briefly throughout the movie, and was bereft of the usual plethora
of gadgets - one of the unusual feature being 'the glove compartment',
which concealed a sniper's rifle.
Aston Martin V8 (Volante) - The Living Daylights,1987
- Timothy Dalton
Once more a new Bond had a new car. 'The Living Daylights' featured
Timothy Dalton, whose offical Q-car was the then recently realeased
Aston Martin V8 (Volante).
The 5.3 litre V8 engine could effortly power Bond to 96 kms per
hour in just over 6 seconds, and had a maximum speed of 240 kms
per hour.
The Volante had plenty of the usual Bond gimmicks - lasers on wheels,
rockets, spiked tyres, and were also fitted with skis to allow driving
on ice.
Golden Eye - Aston Martin DB5, 1995 (Pierce Brosnon)
In the Golden Eye, the official car given to Brosnon
by the Q-3 was a BMWZ3.
 But
the movie also features the famous
Aston Martin DB5.
The DB5, however is not the same as the one driven by Sean
Connery in Goldfinger - Brosnon's car bears registration number
BMT 214 A and not 216A as in Goldfinger)
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