I still have a gold one, unfortunately well played with.
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From: "Murray Arundell" <arundell@ghs.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:38 PM
To: "Max Heim" <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] [Fwd: Some investment...]
> There were in fact both Gold and Silver versions. The original one
> was Gold but later ones were silver......
>
> Not that I am a collector of such things but I was made about Corgi
> models when I was a kid and I had both....
>
> Murray
>
> On 02/06/2010, at 5:19 AM, Max Heim wrote:
>
>> I remember having the Corgi model of this car (complete with
>> operational
>> ejection seat), and I recall it being gold, not silver.
>>
>> My recollection of the movie itself is much dimmer.
>> --
>>
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>>
>>
>>
>> on 6/1/10 11:42 AM, Glenn Schnittke at g.schnittke@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> "Most famous car," Bond's Aston Martin, for sale
>>> 2 hours ago
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>>> 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)
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