'Bond In Motion' Museum Opens
Sean Connery poses with an Aston DB5 in an early James Bond publicity shot.
The largest official collection of original Bond vehicles the world has ever seen goes on show at Beaulieu Motor Museum.
By Estella Shardlow on Wednesday 18th January, 2012
From Sean Connery’s DB5 to Roger Moore’s Lotus Espirit, Bond has perpetually been associated with fast, covetable cars as much as he is with espionage, death-defying stunts and beautiful women.
Now it is possible to see the extent of 007’s enviable fleet as 50 of the original cars go on display at the National Motor Museum. The spectacle will run for one year only to mark the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series and the 40th anniversary of the National Motor Museum.
With 50 vehicles on display, Bond in Motion is the biggest official collection of original Bond vehicles to go on public view to date. From the earlier movies there are Goldfinger’s 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III and the buzzing autogyro from You Only Live Twice, through to the Renault 11 TXE in which Bond pursues May Day around Paris in A View To Kill and the Ford Thunderbird from Die Another Day.
Cars used by all five James Bond actors – Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig – feature in the exhibition, plus some more unusual high-octane props such as the ‘flying’ speedboat Glastron GT-150 from Live And Let Die, a tuk-tuk from Octopussy and the board on which Bond surfs into Korea in Die Another Day.
