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To: A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: "Hillman - "
From: Peter.Hore@dhs.vic.gov.au
Date: Thu, 14 May 98 10:59:42 +1000
Cc: gpetrola@prairienet.org, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
     
>> 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
     
>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.

In another of the early books set mainly in the US, he drove a supercharged 
FWD Cord that his CIA friend Felix ? sourced for him. In the movies the only 
FWD that I remember Bond driving was a Citroen 2CV, so perhaps the book is 
better than the movie after all.

Peter H

73/74 TR6 (and 1950 FWD Citroen TA)



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