Drive like James Bond ...
01/03/2016
Have you always wanted to drive a car like the one James Bond uses on his missions? Well, shopping has never been so easy. Provided you have the necessary change, you can buy five Bond mobiles just by visiting the Bonhams Auction on January 28, 2016 in Scottsdale .
Of course, these are not the movie cars, but vehicles similar in type, but this should hardly change the driving experience.
In addition to the Aston Martin DB5 (above), which was first honored in Goldfinger (1964), driven by Sean Connery, and which surprisingly made it into the latest films and into the hands of Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, one or the other may also warm to the Lotus Esprit Turbo, which is in Scottsdale in silver instead of white or copper-colored paintwork, i.e. not quite as it appeared in "For your eyes only" and with Roger Moore. But it also doesn't blow up if someone unintentionally shakes the door.
We move on to the Aston Martin V8 Volante, which we saw in "The living Daylights" in 1987 with Timothy Dalton at the wheel and skids under the wheels. The 1982 version can't do this and the Vantage specification is also missing, but visually we are close to the original in the movie.
Twelve years later, Pierce Brosnan had a BMW Z8 sawed in half. The Bonhams version is much rarer, as it is made by Alpina and also in one piece.
And finally, the Aston Martin Vanquish, which appeared in the 2002 film "Die Another Day". "They call it the Vanquish, we named it the Vanish", said "Q", referring to the Aston's ability to become invisible. The S version from 2005 cannot do this, but it does have a few extra horsepower for escape.
So five Bond mobiles go under the hammer at Bonhams in one day, for more Bond cars you would have to go to Scottsdale a few houses away. At RM/Sothebys and Gooding, for example, there is also the Toyota GT 2000 and a number of Bentleys. However, you won't find a Lotus Esprit S1, an AMC Hornet or an Alfa Romeo GTV6 at any of the auction houses in Arizona in January 2016. Let's see if anything happens here at the auctions in Paris in February. It would certainly not surprise anyone if one of the DB10s from Spectre were to appear at an auction in the near future.
