Bentley Motors and The Little Car Company have revealed a road-legal, 85 per cent scale recreation of the Bentley Blower. In the first James Bond novels, 007 drove a Bentley Blower.
If you want to drive like 007, chances are you’ll have to spend big bucks. But for those of lacking the coin to put us in a Lotus or an Aston, there’s a surprisingly affordable alternative that’s nearly as stylish and timeless as James Bond himself. That would be the BMW Z3 that featured 20 years ago in the Pierce Brosnan debut GoldenEye.
In the spectacular opening sequence of the movie Quantum of Solace (2008), Bond in his Aston Martin DBS is chased by villains in two black Alfa Romeo 159 sedans.
The final vehicles that are to be included in the Bond In Motion exhibition were loaded into the London Film Museum in Covent Garden today. The exhibition is the largest official collection of original James Bond vehicles and will be on display for the first time in London from 21 March.
Bond In Motion, the largest official collection of James Bond vehicles, which was exhibited at The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu in 2012 and 2013, will come to the London Film Museum in March 2014.
In the movie SkyFall (2012), James Bond (Daniel Craig) poses as a driver at the Shanghai international airport and follows the villain Patrice (Ola Rapace) in a black Mercedes-Benz S-class.
In the movie Never Say Never Again (1983), James Bond (Sean Connery) drives a black Bentley to the Shrublands health clinic. The car is a 1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre Gurney Nutting 3-Position-Drophead Coupé, chassis number B129JY, registration DYM 800.
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) owns a black and yellow Rolls-Royce in the movie Goldfinger (1964). The Rolls-Royce driven by Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) is a Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville by Coachbuilder Barker, Chassis Number #3BU168. It was originally custom-built for Lord Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire in 1937.
In the movie For Your Eyes Only (1981), James Bond and Melina Havelock escape from Hector Gonzales' villa in a yellow Citroën 2CV, a classic french automobile.
In the movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) James Bond (Sean Connery) drives a Triumph Stag to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The car is owned by diamond smuggler Peter Franks, but after Franks is apprehended, Bond assumes Franks identity and takes the car.
