[Healeys] The Bond car

[BJ8 Healeys]

There may be as many copies of the '64 DB5 Bond car as there are "factory
Ms".  I was in a vintage aircraft hangar in  Kissimmee, Florida a few years
ago.  Next to the P-51 and against the wall was a sign indicating that the
original James Bond DB5 had been on display there, but it had been stolen.
Maybe they eventually got it back and sold it on, or maybe it or the one
recently at auction (or both) was one of the copies.  For 4.1 million, one
would think that any buyer willing to spend that kind of money would want
some proof of the provenance of the car, though.  Recent experience of BJ8s
sold for big bucks at Barrett-Jackson suggests it ain't necessarily so.
 
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666           
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA
 
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Bert Van Brande
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:12 PM
To: I Erbs; healey help; Alan Seigrist
Subject: Re: [Healeys] The Bond car
 
Different "Bond" car, the 64 Aston-Martin DB5 with 007 movie background and
parafernalia sold yesterday at RM auction in London for 4.1 Million USD
(4.6M total) to a ... US mortgage banker. (refrained myself from further
remarks)

BTW, the 100m sold for 50,400 GBP and a BN2 with "stylish" upgrades sold for
42,600 GBP.   (+/- 90K and 76K USD with auction fees)