The seller says he bought the car in 1969 for $12,000. That's a pretty good
return on his money....
Sarah Carr
BN1 in PA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Van Brande" <bertvanbrande@yahoo.com>
To: "I Erbs" <eyera3@gmail.com>; "healey help" <healeys@autox.team.net>;
"Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] The Bond car
> Different "Bond" car, the 64 Aston-Martin DB5 with 007 movie background
> and parafernalia sold yesterday at RM auction in London for 4.1 Million
> USD (4.6M total) to a ... US mortgage banker. (refrained myself from
> further remarks)
>
> BTW, the 100m sold for 50,400 GBP and a BN2 with "stylish" upgrades sold
> for 42,600 GBP. (+/- 90K and 76K USD with auction fees)
>
> b.
>
> --- On Thu, 10/28/10, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] The Bond car
>> To: "I Erbs" <eyera3@gmail.com>, "healey help" <healeys@autox.team.net>
>> Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7:34 AM
>> That car was sitting in the Walnut
>> Creek CA Ferrari Dealership for
>> years in the 1980s.
>>
>> I'd go look at it every couple of months because it was
>> close to my
>> house and next to the BMC dealer. It wasn't for sale
>> outright but it
>> could be had for about $25,000 if I recall correctly.
>>
>> A little more than for a standard DB5, but not much more
>> because they
>> had cut up the car and interior a fair amount. Ex
>> Hollywood cars were
>> all over CA at the time (they weren't worth much) dealers
>> bought them
>> to pull customers into the showroom.
>>
>> The fake radar scope inside was not done very well, but the
>> guns and
>> flipping license plate looked good.
>>
>> Maybe I shouldn't have bought my BJ8 then!
>>
>> Alan
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