WHERE’S MY BENTLEY?


IT’S HAD ITS DAY, I’M AFRAID…. YOU’LL BE USING THIS ASTON MARTIN DB5, WITH MODIFICATIONS


This dialog between James Bond and Q from the 1964 movie “Goldfinger” introduced the most enduring and famous relationship between a car and a film franchise — and perhaps the greatest bit of product placement — ever. Alas, this article isn’t about that Bond car.


Over the 50-year screen history of Ian Fleming’s immortal spook, James Bond has driven count- less other cars besides the Silver Birch 1964 Aston Martin DB5 equipped with everything from machine guns to an ejector seat. Although most became interest- ing collector cars in their own right, none achieved anywhere near the level of immortality and indelible association with 007 as the Aston. Not coincidentally, none are remotely as expensive, either. Good news for those of us mortals who like a little bit of


James Bond trivia in our collec- tor cars’ past.


Strictly speaking, an official “Bond car” is one that was actually issued to Bond by MI6 armaments quartermaster Major Boothroyd, otherwise known as “Q.” The long- suffering character was played by Desmond Llewellyn in most of the official EON-produced Bond films through 1999’s “Die Another Day.”


Over the series of 22 films to date, some of the “official” Bond cars have been either forgettable or barely seen at all (Bond’s Bent- ley Mk IV in “From Russia With Love” is only briefly on screen), while some of the unofficial Bond cars — the ones “borrowed” by 007 — were involved in some of the more memorable scenes in Bond moviedom.


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