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[Mike Janacek]

Hmmm, I wonder if this is the same one I saw at the 1964 New York Worlds 
Fair.
Sounds like it as the one I saw had inoperable machine guns also.
Mike

Glenn Schnittke wrote:
> "Most famous car," Bond's Aston Martin, for sale
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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)