>> if james bond drove a hillman in the book and an aston martin in the
>> movie,then it is not true that the book is always better than the movie.
>>
>> fred zampa
>In the first book (Casino Royale), he drove a supercharged Bentley with
>custom coachwork from Milliners. (He'd bought the car with the savings from
>his medium paying civil service job, and baccarat winnings, I guess.)
>Unfortunately, the bad guys ran him off the road, and it broke.
In another of the early books set mainly in the US, he drove a supercharged
FWD Cord that his CIA friend Felix ? sourced for him. In the movies the only
FWD that I remember Bond driving was a Citroen 2CV, so perhaps the book is
better than the movie after all.
Peter H
73/74 TR6 (and 1950 FWD Citroen TA)
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