The car is a reproduction built by Aston Martin to be the same as the iconic 1964 car Bond first drove in “Goldfinger. “
The manufacturers ordered 10 of the cars instead of buying or renting and jeopardizing the originals in the high-speed chase scenes featured in the film.
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This one has a simplified interior for stunts and is one of two that were supplied with devices, adding fake Gatling guns that emerge from the headlights.
It also has a smokescreen and cosmetic scrapes added for a chase through the Italian stone of the city of Matera, but it is not legal on the streets.
The sale was worth £2,922,000, about a million more than expected before the auction, with all proceeds going to a basket of forty-five charities added by several veterans of British intelligence and special forces.
Several other parts and cars were sold at the auction, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of the film franchise, with a 1981 Aston Martin V8 that gave the impression of “No Time to Die” as a reminder of “The Living Daylights” sold. for almost $700,000.
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The original surviving DB5s sell for between $1 million and $2 million, depending on their condition, adding the one Sean Connery bought toward the end of his life and was auctioned off in August for $2,425,000.
That’s a far cry from the record $6. 4 million paid for one of the cars full of devices that used to advertise “Thunderball” but were never used on screen.
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Bond’s Holy Grail cars are used for the manufacture of “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball”. The last time, one sold in 2010 for $4. 6 million and is now part of the collection of a personal Ohio automobile museum, while the other was stolen from a hangar at the airport in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1997 and has not been noticed since.
Gary Gastelu is the editor of Fox News Digital.