THE James Bond car
Discussion
Four million they reckon,,don't see it myself....Twice that, three time?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/...
I was told by a reliable source that there were two cars used in the films, BMT 216A and this one. Two further cars were built for post film publicity. Other cars seem to have been used as well, so there are a few James Bond cars about. Various magazines have had a go at sorting all this out. Anybody care to offer enlightenment?
I was also told that all the hydraulic kit in the boot had a detrimental effect on handling.
[Ed. - mainly from Wikipedia
1. Red DB4 used to measure up and test gadgets belonged to member of film crew, up for sale recently following 'barn find'.
2. BMT 216A DB4 Series 5 Vantage, aka DP/216/1, Factory DB5 prototype, silver birch with red interior, the 'Effects Car', with the gadgets, used for Goldfinger, stolen from its owner in Florida in 1997 and never recovered.
3. FMP 7B DB5, silver birch / grey, the 'Road Car' also used for driving scenes in Goldfinger and the principal car used in Thunderball, dressed up as BMT 216A, subsequently with gadgets installed for publicity purposes, and now up for sale.
4. Two further DB5's, silver birch / black made for publicity use, both sold by the factory to Sir Anthony Bamford in 1969 for £1500. (Where was I when those were offered for sale, but I guess he had special conections) One subsequently sold by RM Auctions in Arizona for $2m in 2006, the other in the Louwman Collection Museum in Holland.
5. Further DB5 registered BMT 214A used in Goldeneye, along with two further DB5's.
6. Yet another DB5, silver birch and LHD, used in Casino Royale.
7. Metro 27.05.10 Mark Perkins, a property dealer from Ascot Berkshire owns 'James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from the film Goldfinger'.
FMP 7B sounds like the real deal, in fact what I would regard as the definitive Bond DB5, BMT 216A having been a factory 'mule' tooled up with gadgets for special effects purposes however are there any DB5's that Bond has NOT used? I am interested in this because in Spring 1967 I went to see 'The James Bond DB5' on display in Callanders Garage in Great Western Road in Glasgow. I stood in a queue and got to sit in it, and it looked awfully like the pictures of FMP 7B, though it wasn't carrying that reg as I remember. That struck me because I expected it to be carrying BMT 216A, but I think it had JB 007 or something of the like. Externally it looked fabulous, internally I was surprised how old fashioned it seemed, particularly the perspex sunshades. I pressed the red button on the gear stick, but nothing happened.]
I was also told that all the hydraulic kit in the boot had a detrimental effect on handling.
[Ed. - mainly from Wikipedia
1. Red DB4 used to measure up and test gadgets belonged to member of film crew, up for sale recently following 'barn find'.
2. BMT 216A DB4 Series 5 Vantage, aka DP/216/1, Factory DB5 prototype, silver birch with red interior, the 'Effects Car', with the gadgets, used for Goldfinger, stolen from its owner in Florida in 1997 and never recovered.
3. FMP 7B DB5, silver birch / grey, the 'Road Car' also used for driving scenes in Goldfinger and the principal car used in Thunderball, dressed up as BMT 216A, subsequently with gadgets installed for publicity purposes, and now up for sale.
4. Two further DB5's, silver birch / black made for publicity use, both sold by the factory to Sir Anthony Bamford in 1969 for £1500. (Where was I when those were offered for sale, but I guess he had special conections) One subsequently sold by RM Auctions in Arizona for $2m in 2006, the other in the Louwman Collection Museum in Holland.
5. Further DB5 registered BMT 214A used in Goldeneye, along with two further DB5's.
6. Yet another DB5, silver birch and LHD, used in Casino Royale.
7. Metro 27.05.10 Mark Perkins, a property dealer from Ascot Berkshire owns 'James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from the film Goldfinger'.
FMP 7B sounds like the real deal, in fact what I would regard as the definitive Bond DB5, BMT 216A having been a factory 'mule' tooled up with gadgets for special effects purposes however are there any DB5's that Bond has NOT used? I am interested in this because in Spring 1967 I went to see 'The James Bond DB5' on display in Callanders Garage in Great Western Road in Glasgow. I stood in a queue and got to sit in it, and it looked awfully like the pictures of FMP 7B, though it wasn't carrying that reg as I remember. That struck me because I expected it to be carrying BMT 216A, but I think it had JB 007 or something of the like. Externally it looked fabulous, internally I was surprised how old fashioned it seemed, particularly the perspex sunshades. I pressed the red button on the gear stick, but nothing happened.]
Edited by cardigankid on Thursday 3rd June 09:20
Interesting piece on ITN news just now about this car.
Wonder how much it will fetch, as it now seems to be the only one left that was actually used in the film, even if the gadgets were added at a later date.
I expect the film provenance will add massively to the value - I guess it is worth as much as someone is prepared to pay!
Between £3 mill and £4 mill would seem about right, but you just never know. Maybe that the outright auction record of $12.2 million for a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa might be a bit to far fetched though!
Wonder how much it will fetch, as it now seems to be the only one left that was actually used in the film, even if the gadgets were added at a later date.
I expect the film provenance will add massively to the value - I guess it is worth as much as someone is prepared to pay!
Between £3 mill and £4 mill would seem about right, but you just never know. Maybe that the outright auction record of $12.2 million for a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa might be a bit to far fetched though!
Ha one of my claims to fame in top ten tenuous, is that my eldest brother was a technician at Callenders then. So I got to be all over that car "out of hours" along with the BSA from Thunderball the next year.
He was on night shift servicing and I got taken in to see such things as:
De Tomaso's
Cadillacs
Mercedes Pullmans
and the magnificent Iso Griffo
Allan
He was on night shift servicing and I got taken in to see such things as:
De Tomaso's
Cadillacs
Mercedes Pullmans
and the magnificent Iso Griffo
Allan
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