On Wed, 13 May 1998, Allen Nugent wrote:
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> At 13:53 12/05/98 -0500, you wrote:
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> >On Tue, 12 May 1998, Fred Zampa wrote:
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> >> if james bond drove a hillman in the book and an aston martin in the
> >> movie,then it is not true that the book is always better than the movie.
> >>
> >> fred zampa
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> In the first book (Casino Royale), he drove a supercharged Bentley with
> custom coachwork from Milliners. (He'd bought the car with the savings from
> his medium paying civil service job, and baccarat winnings, I guess.)
> Unfortunately, the bad guys ran him off the road, and it broke.
>
> Allen Nugent
> Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney 2052 Australia
>
Okay!!! Anybody coming to the Champagne British Car Festival????
Back to Bond... er, this time Sean Connery. I read an article
several years back that before he was rich and famous, He drove
a very very tatty mini...
Just throwing a little confusion into the mix.
BTW in an early scene in "From Russia With Love" Bond was
picnicing with a lovely. There was also a nice prewar Bentley
in the scene. And since we're on to Bentley's and Bond, how about
that Great Bentley Roadster that David Niven Drove in Casino Royale?
THAT Bentley still gives me palpitations whenever I watch the film
(it looks to be a 4.5 litre, I don't think it was supercharged).
Greg "confirmed prewar Bentley worshiper... from afar) Petrolati
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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