OO7 FANS are in for a treat next month with the opening of an exciting new exhibition of 50 James Bond vehicles at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
The exhibition, called Bond in Motion, is the largest of its kind staged anywhere in the world and will showcase some of the most iconic Bond cars in celebration of the 50th year of the film series.
Among the vehicles currently arriving for the exhibition are several that 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 Jack parachute which villain Gustav Graves used when he landed on The Mall and 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 pipeline.
The exhibition runs from January 17 throughout 2012, also the 40th anniversary of the National Motor Museum, which boasts a collection of more than 250 vehicles telling the story of motoring in Britain.
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