A massive celebration at Beaulieu promises 50 Bond-related vehicles, plus a raft of material that hasn't been seen before.
The Bond in Motion display kicks off on 17 January at the National Motor Museum and will run until the end of 2012.
Several of the vehicles are said to have never before been seen in public, including the Ford Mustang Mach 1 from Diamonds Are Forever, villain Zukovsky’s Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II from The World Is Not Enough and the vintage 1962 Rolls-Royce, pushed into a lake by May Day and Zorin with Bond still inside, in A View to a Kill.
Other exhibits on public view for the first time include the ‘Burial-At-Sea Bed’ from You Only Live Twice, the Union Flag Parachute which villain Gustav Graves used when he landed on The Mall plus the Surfboard with concealed weapons and ammunition, from Die Another Day.
Also on display will be the Casino Royale Skyfleet S570 model, based on a Boeing 747, and original ‘Pig’ from The Living Daylights, used to smuggle Koskov across the border through the Siberian Pipe Line.
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James Elliott is a former Editor of Classic & Sports Car