Bond Car Sells For £2.6 Million To American Collector
James Bond Aston Martin DB5 £2.6million SOLD
The most well known car ever to grace the UK roads went up for sale today at an auction house in London, and sold for a staggering £2.6 million to an American collector who claimed he had paid more than he wanted to pay.
If you have ever watched Goldfinger or Thunderball, it wouldn’t take you a few seconds to work out what we were talking about if we mentioned the number plate JB 007 – on an Aston Martin DB5?
Well, after it sitting in a basement of the late previous owner for 41 years, the car was presented back on the soil where it first started it’s life back in 1964 – and still in possesion of it’s bullet proof shield, the worlds first ever navigation system and the all so famous ejector seat. But who would have thought that a £8,000 investment back in 1969 would have attracted such a high price tag.
And even though the paintwork was looking a little tired, new owner Harry Yeaggy said: “I thought it would have been baught by a European, but I guess they don’t like Bond as much as we do!” He also claimed that he was going to “fire the car up and take it for a spin round the streets of London tonight and have a bit of fun with it.”
The DB5 was one of two cars ever used in the Bond films, but unfortunately the other one was stolen back in 1997.
