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3 cars used for the film is a lot...
Eon should buy it if they don't already have one.
The current bids are still kind of "cheap", except for the TB picture with Sean's autograph, which will fetch at least GBP 120.
There are a lot of fake autographs being sold.
I’m in love with that Roger one, but it looks like they sold a very similar one two years ago and it went for £812(!).
Report disputing green benefits of EVs attributed to company registered to wife of carmaker’s director
Oops.
So assuming Xenia and Bond were actually racing, is that in any way realistic or would the 30 years younger car just drive away in reality?
Not at all realistic, no! :) The Ferrari has about 100bhp more power, is much lighter, and can get to 60 about four seconds quicker. Plus it handles like an actual sportscar.
But hey, maybe the car has been supertuned by Q branch, maybe Xenia is a terrible driver (she does spin out after all!), and the other car does have James Bond 007 driving it! :)
And they are supposed to be playing rather than racing for their lives I guess.
I actually think a slightly worse one is the opening of Quantum of Solace where Bond's V12 supercar can't pull away from some saloon family Alfa Romeos when it gets a clear bit of highway. It had twice the power of those cars.
Thank you. I assumed as much.
Well, that chase takes them across at least 500 km. So the power imbalance isn't our only problem here 😅
And my headcanon for that GoldenEye chase is now that Xenia didn't want to outrace him, but rather have a bit of fun...
The QoS chase, I don't know. first, it isn't a given they were chasing him for the full 500 km, more likely they were called in and found him close to where we see them chase Bond. second, alfa's are very sporty cars, far more than other family cars. Another factor is traffic, which we can see clearly in the chase, limiting Bond's possible escape. I once gave chase to an audi A3 on a highway in a 20y/o Opel Corsa 1.4 and managed toe keep in sight, mainly because the audi wasn't able to go above 140km/h due to traffic, a speed I managed to match.
In the traffic yeah, Bond doesn't get a chance to pull away; but once he turns the hairpin and goes up the hill on the clear road away from the jam he should be able to disappear into the distance easily, the Alfas would be nowhere near him. They're really not that sporty! :)
They weren't very quick either: a top of the range BMW M5 of the same vintage would get to 60 two seconds quicker and stand more chance of getting near Bond.
I think the idea of going into the quarry was to try and even them up a bit.
It's like that bit where Bond's Lotus is troubled by a Cortina, only more so!
I'd actually quite like to see a Bond car chase where Bond goes for a gadget to dispose of a baddie behind him, but then thinks again and just puts his foot down!
To be clear, I am being facetious. There is no way that in the internal logic of the movie, the chase is supposed to be 500 km. The areas where they are shot (which are very famous and recognizable landmark-like areas. Lake Garda and the Carrara marble quarries) are just that far apart.
If you wanted to do the entire QoS drive starting at the Villa at the end of CR and ending in Siena while hitting the spots we see in the sequence, you'd be on the road for a good 800 km.
But I guess for Bond they are basically right next to each other.
Found this site with all the performances.
https://zeperfs.com/en/fiche1683-aston-martin-dbs.htm
best 159 would be the 3.2 litre petrol one, with a 0-100kph of 7.0 seconds. The dbs does it in 4.4.
So yes, up the pass Bond would easily run away, but irrc he tries to and then is blocked, forcing him into the quarry, where the floor clearing of the 159 would give it the advantage.
The lotus and cortina is just... well....
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-1984-aston-martin-v8-volante-2068201/
Check out the numberplate; only a few away from Bond's! :)
£1,275 for the Roger photo; I'd hate to think what the others went for! :)
10.500 Euro for the signed Thunderball picture, and it is not a charity auction. This was a serious Bond fan.
Almost certainly a fake too.
I've heard a lot about james bond fake autographs being sold around the world.
No.
There is a lot of forged signed stuff in the world.
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/34531/autograph-reference-section/
Yes there is, but that does not mean that all autographs are forged. This is not an eBay action from Derek in Doncaster, it's a Bonhams auction. They are professional auctioneers who sell high end cars and associated ephemera all the time and will have made the utmost efforts to verify the veracity of everything they sell.
Unless you have a specific reason to doubt this is a genuine autograph there's no point in suggesting it isn't.
Just my opinion on the research i've done on autographs.
It's typical white collar crime.
But surely you understand that because, say, fake Burberry coats exist, it doesn't mean that all Burberry coats are fake? And if you buy a coat from Burberry, or an authorised Burberry reseller, it's more likely to be genuine than fake?
In your well-researched opinion, where would you buy a genuine autograph from?
Rittenhouse, upper deck cards are more likely to be real like this.
They do a lot of autos from sports to movies.