[Mgs] [Fwd: Some investment...]

[Murray Arundell]

There were in fact both Gold and Silver versions.  The original one
was Gold but later ones were silver......

Not that I am a collector of such things but I was made about Corgi
models when I was a kid and I had both....

Murray

On 02/06/2010, at 5:19 AM, Max Heim wrote:

> I remember having the Corgi model of this car (complete with
> operational
> ejection seat), and I recall it being gold, not silver.
>
> My recollection of the movie itself is much dimmer.
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>
>
> on 6/1/10 11:42 AM, Glenn Schnittke at g.schnittke at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> "Most famous car," Bond's Aston Martin, for sale
>> 2 hours ago
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>> LONDON  James Bond's 1964 Aston Martin DB5, dubbed by auto
>> auctioneers
>> RM Auctions on Tuesday as the "world's most famous car," will go
>> under
>> the hammer in London in October and is expected to fetch over $5
>> million.
>>
>> It is the first time the distinctive silver-colored car has been
>> available to the public to buy.
>>
>> It is one of two, and the sole remaining, of the original "007" DB5s
>> that appeared on screen with Sean Connery behind the wheel in
>> "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball," RM Auctions said in a statement.
>>
>> The model comes complete with its "Q-Branch" gadgets including
>> machine
>> guns, bullet-proof shield, revolving number plates, tracking device,
>> removable roof panel, oil slick sprayer, nail spreader and smoke
>> screen.
>>
>> Several of the gadgets are fully operational, although the machine
>> guns
>> are not real.
>>
>> The car is being sold by U.S. radio broadcaster Jerry Lee, who
>> convinced
>> the Aston Martin Lagonda factory to sell it for $12,000 in 1969,
>> becoming its first and only ex-factory owner.
>>
>> It has remained in his possession and has rarely been seen publicly
>> over
>> the past 40 or so years. Lee plans to use the proceeds from the
>> sale for
>> the Jerry Lee Foundation.
>>
>> It will be auctioned on October 27.
>>
>> (Reporting by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Patricia Reaney)
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