"Most famous car," Bond's Aston Martin, for sale
2 hours ago
Must Read?Yes 2
Share|
Email Story
Discuss
Print
LONDON James Bond's 1964 Aston Martin DB5, dubbed by auto auctioneers
RM Auctions on Tuesday as the "world's most famous car," will go under
the hammer in London in October and is expected to fetch over $5 million.
It is the first time the distinctive silver-colored car has been
available to the public to buy.
It is one of two, and the sole remaining, of the original "007" DB5s
that appeared on screen with Sean Connery behind the wheel in
"Goldfinger" and "Thunderball," RM Auctions said in a statement.
The model comes complete with its "Q-Branch" gadgets including machine
guns, bullet-proof shield, revolving number plates, tracking device,
removable roof panel, oil slick sprayer, nail spreader and smoke screen.
Several of the gadgets are fully operational, although the machine guns
are not real.
The car is being sold by U.S. radio broadcaster Jerry Lee, who convinced
the Aston Martin Lagonda factory to sell it for $12,000 in 1969,
becoming its first and only ex-factory owner.
It has remained in his possession and has rarely been seen publicly over
the past 40 or so years. Lee plans to use the proceeds from the sale for
the Jerry Lee Foundation.
It will be auctioned on October 27.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Patricia Reaney)
--
Nil desperandum
Glenn Schnittke
-----------------------
g.schnittke@comcast.net
Home - 615-837-5883
Cell - 615-319-5534
_______________________________________________
Mgs@autox.team.net
Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
Suggested annual donation $12.75
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
|