The stunt car from the last James Bond movie was auctioned for millions

Historic or special car auctions have made up for lost time in the pandemic and are experiencing a great moment. The idea of ​​protecting capital by acquiring a vehicle that over time will have greater value every time, seems to be booming, and for that reason there have been cases in which a car has been auctioned at a record figure with increasing value. frequency.

But every so often cars appear that do not have their value in the model or year they belong to, but in what they represent. This appears to be the case for one of the Aston Martin DB5 that were used in the filming of the movie “No time to die” (No time to die), the last of James Bondpersonified by Daniel Craig in 2021.

Aston Martin was in charge of build and modify 8 replicas of the DB5 model, adapting them to the type of work that would be done with each one. Three of those cars were specially built with the “chase mode”which means that its qualities included having a rotating digital license plate, retractable headlights with pop-up machine guns, and prop bombs that shoot.

What was not expected was that the price at which the sale was awardedto a buyer who was participating in the auction through a telephone line, was as high as 3.2 million dollars.

The auction was held through a Christie’s house with the excuse of celebrating 60 years of James Bond movies, and proceeds will benefit The Prince’s Trust in its work with young people, the Prince of Wales Charitable Fund in support of charities helping serving and former members of the UK Intelligence Agencies, and three other organisations. charities supporting current and former members of the UK Special Forces.

The car really is a unique piece, because all the elements added by Aston Martin so that he could do the chase scenes from the movie work perfectlygiving the DB5 a special charm that very few can afford to become owners of these motor relics.

In fact, the car also features the movie action printsas the right side is clearly damaged and in that condition it was published for even better collection.

The auction lot also had for sale a 1981 Aston Martin V8 which was hosted by Daniel Craig in “No Time To Die”. The iconic model and the first real supercar in the English industry, it is similar to the one used in the movie 1987 Bond, The Living Daylights. That car was donated by EON Productions, and raised some $6,920,000 in proceeds, which will go to support the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

And a third Aston Martin was sold at auction. It is one of the 25 DBS Superleggera 007, created by the brand to celebrate Superleggera’s inclusion in the iconic James Bond franchise. The DBS presents a plate with the engraved signatures of actress Lashana Lynchwho drove the car in the film, as well as the producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The DBS Superleggera 007 edition sold for $442,900 with all proceeds going to the Prince and Princess of Wales Royal Trust.

Just as replicas acquire more and more value by allowing unique or very old cars not to be exposed to problems and accidents that detract from their original car character, in these cases they are good to allow, with some extra levers and a little mechanical ingenuity, take the real place of a fantasy car.

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