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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 09:14 PM
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Thumbs up The James Bond Experience - car museum!

I saw this on tv recently and did a little search. Museum is located about 90 minutes outside of London and boasts the largest collection of cars used in the films.



Gott love the "submarine" Lotus:

http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/motormuseum/base2.cfm?ID=20



A little Ian Flemming trivia for you guys: He also wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Another cool car, which I think is also at the Beaulieu museum.

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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 12:27 AM
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oo i love bond cars
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 10:13 AM
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I'll definitely go there someday.
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 11:02 AM
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Here is perhaps the most famous Bond car of all....his original Aston Martin DB7.

And it's not even British Racing Green. Shame, shame.......

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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 11:44 AM
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I wonder how they maintain those cars, do they take it out once in a while to get an oil change or just let it sit.
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Here is perhaps the most famous Bond car of all....his original Aston Martin DB7.

And it's not even British Racing Green. Shame, shame.......

I'm pretty sure it was a DB5 not a DB7.
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jwong77
I'm pretty sure it was a DB5 not a DB7.
It was a DB5 but mmarshall is right - that is the iconic James Bond car. I had the Corgi model as a child, it had an ejector seat, rear bullet shield and revolving number plates and I loved it.
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Here is perhaps the most famous Bond car of all....his original Aston Martin DB5.

And it's not even British Racing Green. Shame, shame.......

Corrected it for you
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 07:09 PM
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I wonder why the 2000GT is not in there.
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Big Andy
It was a DB5 but mmarshall is right - that is the iconic James Bond car. I had the Corgi model as a child, it had an ejector seat, rear bullet shield and revolving number plates and I loved it.
I had the same car!
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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by MSMLexIS
I wonder why the 2000GT is not in there.
I think that car is floating around with a collector iirc.
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Gojirra99
Corrected it for you
Thanks, Andrew. My typo.
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