AMC Hornet from Man with the Golden Gun up for auction

00dan

Saw this one come up today. Not the Aston but no doubt a cool addition to someone's collection. Wonder what it will actually fetch at auction.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a10398119/james-bond-barrel-roll-amc/

Dirty Punker

I don't know if its true but the stuntman was missing and they used a random crew member to perform the jump.

A beauty.
I'm sure the other car stolen from the dealership is somewhere out there aswell.

Asp9mm

Dirty Punker wrote:

I don't know if its true but the stuntman was missing and they used a random crew member to perform the jump.

) Reread what you just posted and have a think. You can work out whether it's true or not quite easily.

Dirty Punker

Asp9mm wrote:

Dirty Punker wrote:

I don't know if its true but the stuntman was missing and they used a random crew member to perform the jump.

) Reread what you just posted and have a think. You can work out whether it's true or not quite easily.

) :v
Exactly, I knew it was BS but I read about it years ago.
You know, you never know until you ask.

Higgins

yeah, but you shouldn't ask Asp9mm 8-)

jared_nomak

Could be for the driving of the Lotus Esprit S1 you are thinking the stunt driver was not around and was driver up the hill to its limits by Roger Becker who was suppose to be there to deal with any issues with the cars. He at least knew what the cars limits were.
Ross

Dirty Punker

jared_nomak wrote:

Could be for the driving of the Lotus Esprit S1 you are thinking the stunt driver was not around and was driver up the hill to its limits by Roger Becker who was suppose to be there to deal with any issues with the cars. He at least knew what the cars limits were.
Ross

No, I remember it being said for The Man With The Golden Gun. Nevermind.
I think that the car didn't look fast and exciting when it was driven by the stunt driver and the Lotus guy drove it "like it was meant to be driven", or something along those lines.

Jonathan Quayle Higgins The Third, ASPEASHOOTER stepped up to the mantle himself.

Gadget Meister

The driving stunt co-ordinator and designer for TMWTGG was Jay Milligan, it was his vision that brought the corkscrew roll to the notice of Broccoli & Saltzman. Milligan completed all of the driving stunts for the movie and was due to drive the corkscrew but was called away to fulfil other commitments so the job fell to fellow professional stunt driver, Canadian Loren “Bumps” Willert, often misquoted as 'Willard' Willert was a veteran of Joie Chitwood's Auto Daredevils stunt show. He died Feb 14 2016.

As an aside, Bumps had never done the stunt before and had never driven the AMC Hornet prior.

Dirty Punker

Gadget Meister wrote:

The driving stunt co-ordinator and designer for TMWTGG was Jay Milligan, it was his vision that brought the corkscrew roll to the notice of Broccoli & Saltzman. Milligan completed all of the driving stunts for the movie and was due to drive the corkscrew but was called away to fulfil other commitments so the job fell to fellow professional stunt driver, Canadian Loren “Bumps” Willert, often misquoted as 'Willard' Willert was a veteran of Joie Chitwood's Auto Daredevils stunt show. He died Feb 14 2016.

So there is a small grain of truth hidden away at what I remember.
Very interesting.