Calling All Secret Agents: James Bond’s 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Is Up for Auction at Sotheby's in August.

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Long article there (above link). Highlights:
RM Sotheby’s will display the Bond DB5 in North America this summer, with July dates to be announced. ...a special single-marque sale session at the 2019 Monterey auction on 15 August. Featuring thirteen functioning Bond modifications, the James Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5 is one of just three surviving examples commissioned in period by Eon Productions and fitted with MI6 Q Branch specifications as pictured in Goldfinger. ... ... Two near-identical cars were built and loaned to Eon Productions for filming, with each fulfilling various roles; one for stunt driving and chase sequences and therefore needing to be lightweight and fast, and the other for interior shots and close-ups, to be equipped with functional modifications created by Stears. As Desmond Llewelyn’s legendary weapons-master Q would go on to explain to Sean Connery’s 007, the Snow Shadow Gray-painted DB5 was equipped with front and rear hydraulic over-rider rams on the bumpers, a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, a raising rear bullet-proof screen, an in-dash radar tracking scope, oil, caltrop and smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and a passenger-seat ejection system. Although never used during the film, the car was also equipped with a telephone in the driver’s door to communicate with MI6 headquarters and a hidden compartment under the driver’s seat containing several weapons. .... ....

Robert