Topic: 007’s Aston Martin For Sale. Machine Guns Included

[Duke McDukiedook]

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/james-bond-aston-martin/

But they don't fire, that is a dealbreaker for me. 

[flybox1]

SWEET!
i prefer the oil slick and smokescreen devices as i rarely feel the need to blow sht up more than once a year. 
things to help ya quickly get away from someone...now thats worth $5mil! 

[azuredesign]

Interesting article. Although I initially questioned whether it was cooler than an intact Hendrix guitar, it is pretty darned cool. A tracking system that predated GPS or the satellites themselves. I think the extendible wheel spinners are destructive enough without the machine guns. I can't believe it was sold for 12k in 1970, although that was 6 times what the cb750 cost then.

[CycleRanger]

If this car doesn't get you Pussy Galore nothing will.   



 

[Frankencake]

One of my first jobs as an apprentice electrician was at Jerry Lee's house in Gladwynne, Pa. around 1996 or 97.  He was the president of a radio station.  He had his entire basement decorated with genuine James Bond stuff and he kept the car in a "garage" that had been sealed up and turned in to part of his entertainment room.  He had a James Bond poker table that he wanted lit with four separate lights all on their own dimmers.  He only wanted the knobs to show meaning we had to bury the boxes behind the drywall.  (NEC no-no).  I was pulling cable through a chase in one of the closets and there was this little box that caught my eye.  I opened it up and there it was: James F**king Bond's Walther PPK! 

Just so you all get the picture, His entire basement of a very large house was dedicated to James Bond.  The car was in the room with you when you were playing poker with the secret dimmers in the ceiling. 
The car was cool and it DID have all of the switches and gadgets and machine guns.  He was a strange guy and didn't want to talk about it much even though I was way in to cars back then.

That was my brush with 007.  You heard it here first.