In pristine condition and with original packaging, is the Aston Martin DB5 die-cast model as seen in the 007 movies, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
Includes working feature of the retractable bullet-proof windshield at the rear.
Kept in a smoke-free, sunlight-free display cabinet, this model in particular was showcased in the 1965 movie Thunderball with Sean Connery as Secret Agent James Bond 007.
Background Information
The Aston Martin DB5 is the most famous Aston Martin car due to its use by James Bond in Goldfinger (1964). Although Ian Fleming had placed Bond in a DB Mark III in the novel, the DB5 was the company's newest model when the film was being made. The car used in the film was the original DB5 prototype, with another standard car used for stunts. Two more modified cars were built for publicity tours after the film's release. In January 2006, one of those cars was auctioned in Arizona for US $2,090,000.
Within the universe of James Bond, the same car was used again in the following film, Thunderball (registration BMT 216A). A different Aston Martin DB5 (registration BMT 214A) was used in the 1995 Bond film, Goldeneye in which three different DB5s were used for filming. The BMT 214A also returned in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and was set to make a cameo at Castle Thane in The World Is Not Enough (1999), but the scene was cut.
For Goldfinger, the car featured a number of "optional extras", as Q reveals to Bond:
* Front firing Browning .30 calibre machine guns behind the front indicators
* Retractable blades in the tire spinners
* Rising bullet-proof rear screen
* Radio telephone
* Radar scanner and tracking screen
* Passenger ejector seat
* Oil slick spray from rear light cluster
* Caltrops from rear light cluster
* Smoke screen from exhaust pipes
* Revolving number plates — "BMT 216A" UK, "4711-EA-62" France, and "LU 6789" Switzerland
* Front and rear extending rams
* Gun cabinet under driver's seat
* Bullet-proof windshield and rear windscreen
A rear water cannon was added for Thunderball
Info c/o AllExperts
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