Just in case you have the spare change (and who doesn't nowadays?) and a yen to really. really live the 00 lifestyle your car is waiting: James Bond’s Car Comes to Life With Oil-Slick Sprayer, but No Ejector Seat Aston Martin is re-creating the Bond DB5, as seen in “Goldfinger,” with all the (responsible) spy gear it could stuff into *snip* A special run of 25 “Goldfinger Continuation” DB5s is being hand-built at the same facility in Newport Pagnell that produced all 898 originals between 1963 and 1965. The cars are finished in the same Silver Birch paint scheme, the interior leather is identical in color and texture, and the dashboard and gauges are as true to the original appearance as possible. Aston Martin even called upon the special-effects wizard from the Bond films, Chris Corbould, to supervise their re-creation. “Aston Martin is fastidious about authenticity,” said Paul Spires, head of Aston Martin Works. “And we have gone to very considerable lengths to ensure the equipment in the Continuation cars is as faithful to that seen in the film as possible.” He added: “Aston Martin has sourced the cockpit instrumentation from the modern successor to the same supplier who made the original instruments in the 1960s. They appear, essentially, identical.” The movie car was equipped with a lethal array of nonstandard gadgets, to aid Bond in his crime fighting. These included oil-slick sprayers, smoke-screen foggers, a retractable bullet-resistant shield, a passenger ejection seat, a nail spreader, hidden machine guns in the fenders and telescoping battering rams. “The main challenge has been to recreate the gadgets from the film world and transfer them into a consumer product,” Mr. Corbould said. “We have license in the film world to ‘cheat’ different aspects under controlled conditions. For instance, we might have four different cars to accommodate four different gadgets. We obviously don’t have that luxury on these DB5s, as all the gadgets have to work in the same car all the time.” There are also concessions to the real world. There will be no ejection seat, as no “non-mischievous” use could be identified for it. Same with the nail dumper. The oil and smoke sprayers will emit simulated substances. And the machine guns won’t fire ammunition. “That would not be compliant with a very great number of laws and/or safety regulations!” Mr. Spires said. “However, the guns do appear to ‘work’ and have light bursts to indicate them ‘firing’ along with authentic gunshot sound effects amplified through speakers — for a very impressive effect.” *snip* (The headline above has a link to the NY Times article)
I just hope that AML survive long enough to see the project through https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cev9zn0ggzpt/aston-martin
Aston Martin has come back from certain death more times than James Bond. There always seem to be more billionaires eager to own the company, no matter how it's doing.