JAMES BOND CARS

FAMOUS JAMES BOND 007 CARS

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.