James Bond car exhibit opens at Beaulieu Motor Museum

January 17, 2012 - 21:54 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - An exhibition of 50 vehicles used in the James Bond films – celebrating 50 years of films featuring 007 – opened Tuesday, January 17 at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.

Called Bond In Motion, the exhibition, claimed to be the largest of its kind staged anywhere in the world, features many of the well known and best loved cars that have featured in 007's adventures over the years.

Bond In Motion will feature a range of Bond-related vehicles including cars, boats, motorbikes, sleds, jets and many more. As ever, the star attraction will be the silver 1964 Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger, in tandem with the 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III owned by arch-villain Auric Goldfinger.

Other famous vehicles include "Wet Nellie", the aquatic Lotus Esprit S1 from The Spy Who Loved Me, and the BMW 750iL from Tomorrow Never Dies. The Jaguar XKR with special effects weapons from Die Another Day and the Ford Mustang from Diamonds Are Forever also star.

Away from four wheels, there's also the tiny Bede Acrostar jet used in Octopussy, the original Parahawk paraglider/snowmobile hybrid featured in The World is Not Enough and the original cello case navigated by Timothy Dalton during a snowy chase in The Living Daylights, The Telegraph reported.