It's fun to speculate, but one might as well wonder how Bond has a 2012 N Peal sweater, limited edition (and altered) To Ki To Barbour jacket, and C&J Islays waiting for him at the childhood home he hadn't been to in 30 years. (Yeah, yeah, they were in the boot of the DB5, of course...)
This is making my head hurt. It's like having a loose tooth, I know I should leave it alone but...I'm both impressed and appalled by our level of Nerdery. Guys guys, there is SO much almost criminally sloppy about both films that Cargate gets lost in the noise for me and yet...
In a better constructed film, these sorts of errors would be less likely to happen. The car issue therefore gets magnified. To use a car metaphor, it's like when purchasing a Chevy. One expects the doors to not fit right or the ergonomics to be poor. It's a Chevy. But when purchasing an Aston Martin, would expect these issues to be resolved. If the hood deviates in symmetry by a couple of inches, we notice. If Aston Martin were producing cars with the same slapdash quality as an American production car, we'd wonder how it could justify the hundreds of thousands of dollars price.
But would be a fun romp as a stolen ride for Our Man...I'd love a shot at penning that scene B-)
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It would be cool! But I'll be honest -- I'm not crazy about the quality and styling of a lot of modern sports cars. The Corvette doesn't do much for me. But I'm a fan of the classic Corvettes.
It would be cool! But I'll be honest -- I'm not crazy about the quality and styling of a lot of modern sports cars. The Corvette doesn't do much for me. But I'm a fan of the classic Corvettes.
Design by wind tunnel delivers superb aerodynamics but tends towards homogeneity which smooths out eccentricity and flair for me at least. I can get off on the efficiency but it does not stir the soul.
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It is all good clean fun. Remember in Skyfall M says, you still have this? Well if it is a company car, with weapons, you mean the quartermaster lost track of it? I don't put any emphasis into it other than it is a joke. The DB5 was a company car in the books and the early movies. Bond had a choice of the Jag or the DB5. Why would MI6 put all that money into a privately owned car, that Bond won in a game. So I see this as just playing with the whole Bond history.
Bond: "But who would want to kill me, sir?"
M: "Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors . . . the list is endless."
How do you know it's Bond's personal belongings in the lock up?
How did M know about the armaments?
I still stand by my original premise that it is a mothballed MI6 DB5 that Q knew about and allowed Bond to use. There is clearly a period of time between Bond 'kidnapping' M and arriving at the lock up (day to night). In that time I believe Bond has made a call to Q who has let him use the DB5.
If Bond had made a call to Q in that time, M would have been in the car and heard him make the call. So why would she at first make the joke about hiding in the garage?
How do you know it's Bond's personal belongings in the lock up?
How did M know about the armaments?
I still stand by my original premise that it is a mothballed MI6 DB5 that Q knew about and allowed Bond to use. There is clearly a period of time between Bond 'kidnapping' M and arriving at the lock up (day to night). In that time I believe Bond has made a call to Q who has let him use the DB5.
If Bond had made a call to Q in that time, M would have been in the car and heard him make the call. So why would she at first make the joke about hiding in the garage?
He pulled over and pretended to need a dump and made a quick call to Q
Just in case ,if any of you out there are interested ,the lock up (my dads old garage) used in Skyfall ,to hide the Aston is in Deptford London ,If you want to see it on google earth ,type in Childers street Deptford London ,and on the map you will see a a junction with Abinger grove .Go to the Earth view key ,and you will get the real street scene .You will see on the corner ofChilders street a pub painted blue ,called the Lord Palmerston , this is where Millwall supporters go pre match for a beer . drag your mouse and keep the pub on the right side ,and you will see a double arch in the back ground .Go towards the arches and turn immediately right ,here is the alley where the DB5 was stashed ,I hope you find this useful ,and would like to hear if any of you looked this up .
My dad ran his workshop there for a number of years ,and I used to help him out on days off ect ,and we would have the odd beer in that pub . never in a million years did we ever think that one day this would be a glamorous Bond location ) The only Bond connection we had came in a mug with chimps on it (think about it )
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Which you have done with insight and elan :007)
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But would be a fun romp as a stolen ride for Our Man...I'd love a shot at penning that scene B-)
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Design by wind tunnel delivers superb aerodynamics but tends towards homogeneity which smooths out eccentricity and flair for me at least. I can get off on the efficiency but it does not stir the soul.
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M: "Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors . . . the list is endless."
Government agencies make public money disappear all the time, so why not an expensive car?
In all seriousness though, I agree entirely, "It is all good clean fun."
If Bond had made a call to Q in that time, M would have been in the car and heard him make the call. So why would she at first make the joke about hiding in the garage?
Bond won a DB5 in CR that he later sold.
Then, between QoS and SF, he buys an old car that MI6 had in storage. A car MI6 had given to an agent in the 60's.
That way, M would know of the car's existence, but Bond would have got it before Q started working at MI6.
Then when Bonds stuff had been sold, the DB5 was simply left in the garage, waiting to be moved.
Bond then asked Q, as a friend, to repair the DB5 (or essentially build a replica one, because apparently only the steering wheel was left).
Then it being all done by the end of SP is beyond me. Q basically had to build a whole new car, and he finished it in supposedly a few months?
He pulled over and pretended to need a dump and made a quick call to Q
My dad ran his workshop there for a number of years ,and I used to help him out on days off ect ,and we would have the odd beer in that pub .
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Was your Dad's lock up used to store MI6 equipment, or Bond's personal stuff????
But that is pretty cool!
On a similar note I used to have a horseshoe that was later borrowed by Thwaites brewery for a TV advert. They gave it back after filming.
Okay, so not quite as cool as your Dad's lock up....