Bond cars (and girls!) on show at Goodwood
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I went to the always wonderful Goodwood Festival of Speed today- so much incredible and rare stuff to see (my favourite was probably the incredible slow fly past from the Airbus A380- amazing), but the stuff I thought you chaps might like was the surprise corner of the Style Et Luxe area which was filled with James Bond 007's motors! And then, just to add a bit of glamour, a load of very sexy Bond girls appeared and posed with the cars! Lovely.
(Saying that, some of them are in a right old state: the Spy Who Loved Me Lotus has trim falling off and wheels in desperate need of a re-furb, and the Living Daylights Aston is covered in dents and scratches and has very dull paintwork in need of TLC, nevermind TLD).
Oh and, not strictly a Bond car, but also putting in an appearance:
(Saying that, some of them are in a right old state: the Spy Who Loved Me Lotus has trim falling off and wheels in desperate need of a re-furb, and the Living Daylights Aston is covered in dents and scratches and has very dull paintwork in need of TLC, nevermind TLD).
Oh and, not strictly a Bond car, but also putting in an appearance:
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Were the cars the originals or replicas?
Looked to be a good day out.
Most of the cars came from the Cars of the Stars Museum, so are originals: the TSWLM Lotus and TLD Aston in particular are showing their age a bit and are a bit beaten up. The TLD Aston may be a show car, but would have come from the movie producers even if it wasn't actually in the film.
The DB5 is from somewhere in Switzerland- it's certainly not the main car from Goldfinger but may be one of the other ones with gadgets added on, I'm not sure.
Not certain about the Toyota, either: they only made one or two for the film, didn't they? Not sure Toyota would have let those go.
Thanks for sharing.
I understand that all but the DB5 came from Cars of The Stars, the DB5 being one of the 1960s promo cars that now resides in Holland.
Like the original, the Toyota started life as a hard-top, CoTS removed the roof and then proceeded to dress it up as a replica - with some original parts.
Nice to see that you managed to get some of the cars into the pics too
Shame that I missed the show, but was watching the likes of P51 Mustangs beating up Duxford airfield.