1. The classic Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger
The Aston Martin is our personal favourite movie car of all time, and certainly from the Bond in Motion exhibition.
The DB5 premiered in the movie Goldfinger with a bang. Literally, as Blofeld’s henchmen found it out the hard way…
Ian Fleming’s Bond character drove a DB Mark III in the novel, so an Aston was an obvious choice for his ride. Luckily, Aston Martin recognised the marketing potential and provided its DB5 prototype for the movie, and the rest is history. The DB5 was arguably the most 007 iconic vehicle, making a return in the next movie Thunderball and was recast for sentimental purposes for a dozen films, irrespective of what company car MI6 provided.
40 years later, the DB5 returned in the 1995 movie GoldenEye as Bond’s personal vehicle and two years later in Tomorrow Never Dies. Allegedly, it was given a cameo appearance in the World is not enough in 1999) but it did not receive screen time. After missing out on the last Brosnan movie, a DB5 appeared in 2006 in Casino Royale. This was a different DB5 and, according to the story, belonged to the villain Alex Dimitrios, and he lost it to Bond in a Poker game. Since Casino Royale, a DB5 was always featured in every Bond movie, and the exhibition featured two.
They used four DB5s for the Goldfinger Movie: two were used in filming, and two were used only for promotional purposes. One of the publicity cars was acquired by the Louwman Museum, one of our favourite car museums.
The other car is from the latest Bond movie, serving as a personal car to drive Madeleine on vacation. In the spirit of the original, the bulletproof DB5 was equipped with miniguns that pop out in the front headlights, a mine dispenser on the rear bumper, as well as the classic smokescreen device. All these equipments came in handy when Bond escaped an ambush set up by Spectre assassins.
This scene is invoked by a life-size diorama with the DB5 making doughnuts on the floor.
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