Blue One Hundred wrote:
>That actual Bond Aston Martin was in the Walnut Creek Ferrari dealership
>(in
>California) for many many years. I remember it vividly, it had a really
>silly movie-prop set up inside for the "radar" that Bond used. Somehow on
>the screen it looked so much more convincing. The dealers even let me sit
>in it a couple times.
>
>I wonder what ever happened to that car. I am quite positive that it must
>be worth an insane amount of money these days.
Which reminds me that they never found the original DB5 (from the early Bond
films) that was stolen out of an airport hangar in Florida in the late
1990's. An individual who purchased it was storing it there under lock and
key and the thieves broke in, stole it, and it's bee missing ever since.
I know they had a couple of different models they used for shooting and
display purposes (as well as at least 1 model they used to ship around to
amusement parks and other commercial public places for promotional reasons).
But this was evidently the model used for all principal photograhy.
Apologies for extending this non-Healey thread (if in fact it is a breach of
netiquette).
>On a similar note, James Bond's B-17 is in Everett, WA (the one from
>Thunderball at the end of the movie)... which coincidentally is the very
>same B-17 my dad flew into Arctic Russia in 1961... but that's a whole
>other
>story!!!
Do you know where abouts it's kept? I live in Seattle and wouldn't mind
taking a drive up to Everett one of these days to see this.
Thanks,
GW
>On 12/15/05, Bob Johnson <robert.w.johnson@charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > Well, after looking at the James Bond Aston-Martin we now know why the
> > spinners were banned. It was that James Bond Aston Martin option of the
> > 3-eared spinners that could be used as tire slashers! The gov must have
> > worried that everyone would adapt their spinners to be slashers and they
> > nipped that idea right in the bud just 4 years later! ;^)
> >
> > Bob Johnson
> > BJ8
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