{"id":1176,"date":"2010-10-28T00:28:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T04:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2010-10-28T00:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T04:28:03","slug":"sold-one-aston-martin-db5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"SOLD! One Aston Martin DB5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1180\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 192px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CorgiToy_catalogue_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1180\" title=\"CorgiToy_catalogue_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CorgiToy_catalogue_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">When James Bond says &quot;Get the hell out of my way, you foolish tourist!&quot; you up it, Fred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although the original James Bond Aston Martin DB5 \u2013 heavily  customized \u2013 for <strong>Goldfinger<\/strong> (1964)  and <strong>Thunderball<\/strong> (1965) \u2013 cost its  former owner around $12,000 back in 1969, the tricked out classic sold today  for a whopping $4.1 million US. Proceeds from the sale will go to charity,  but the lucky owner now has an icon of film history, not to mention an auto  handcrafted in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaderpost.com\/cars\/careful+with+James+Bond+Aston+Martin+sale\/3734257\/story.html?tab=PHOT\" >detailed  pictures<\/a> of the pretty car, as well as a BBC report on its sudden <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/local\/threecounties\/hi\/people_and_places\/newsid_9061000\/9061495.stm\" >reappearance<\/a> after decades, and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11640869\" >sale<\/a> today. A related piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101027\/ap_en_mo\/eu_britain_james_bond\" >Yahoo  News<\/a> features more pictures and video footage.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I wish I had that toy car with the rotating license  plates, rocket launchers, trick passenger seat, bullet shield, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/d.jones7317\/public_html\/corgi\/c270x.htm\" >and  more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since we\u2019re talking Bond, I have to direct you to <a href=\"http:\/\/illustrated007.blogspot.com\/2008_10_01_archive.html\" >Illustrated  007<\/a>, a colourful blog with many book covers and publicity art that many  Bond fans may never have seen before. The German paperback books are  particularly striking, since they don\u2019t focus on star mug shots; they\u2019re about  style, mood, and the tease of sex and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Worth visiting, because with MGM currently in the financial  crapper, it\u2019ll be a while before a Bond film hits the screens. I\u2019d just hate to  think the last 007 hit we had to settle for was 2008\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/p2r\/3435_QuantumOfSolace.htm\">Quantum of Solace<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Blacch!<\/p>\n<p>It offered no solace. Not one ounce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you all missed your chance at owning James Bond&#8217;s 1963 Aston Martin DB5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,100],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-iY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}