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Aston Martin DB5 James Bond again orphan

Last month, the International Auto Show in Detroit, I had the pleasure of being at odds photograph the only Aston Martin DB5 1964 used by Sean Connery in Goldfinger and Thunderball movies. Quite recently, Daniel Craig took over the wheel of famous cars in the excellent film Skyfall.

New sale

Super car that had found a buyer in 2006 for nearly U.S. $ 5 million has just been put on sale.

Its owner, Thomas Straumann has asked a British retailer of the brand Aston Martin to handle the sale of this unique car in the world.

We also learned that Mr. Straumann had restored his beautiful Aston Martin to its major gadgets, innovative for the time, can be operational again:

Mineralogical swivel plates;

rear bulletproof shield;

torn-installed tires in the rear hubs;

machine guns;

spreader oil and thistles;

Exhaust spreaders pot smoke;

drawer hide weapons;

radar screen, GPS ancestor;

phone hidden in the portiere.

Only the seat of ejectable passenger and retractable roof panel have not been renewed.

Adding all these safety equipment has increased the car 400 pounds, the chassis of the car has to be strengthened.

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