british-cars
[Top] [All Lists]

Bond in A M

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Bond in A M
From: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:58:31 -0500
>Folks, the movies perverted the Bond/car thing more than a little.  In the 
>books (which I'd like to think are authoritative) he drove both a blower 
>Bentley (his own car) which figured, for example, in Moonraker, and Aston 
>Martin, in, for example, Goldfinger.  Both were woven in and out of the 
>series.  There was some question as to which A M he drove, inasmuch as one 
>of the books (Goldfinger I think) describes it as a DB 3.  The DB 3 as all 
>lbc fans realize is a very limited edition full-up racing model that is 
>barely street legal, and this seemed rather inappropriate.  In an article 
>in the A M newsletter, some chappy provides the solution to the 
>mystery.  In the original manuscript the A M is described as a DB III, 
>which is easily recognized as shorthand for the DB 2/4 Mk III (which 
>immediately preceded the  DB 4).  This would be appropriate in terms of 
>time, since the Mk III was produced 1956-59.  Apparently the typesetter 
>got lazy.  In any case, the books never make mention of the DB 5, that is 
>an invention of United Artists.
>
>And did you know that in addition to the PPK, one of his "official" guns 
>was a Smith & Wesson Model 40?  J-frame .38 with a backstrap safety.....
>
>A. B. Bonds

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>