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Car superspy James Bond, Aston Martin, will soon be put up for auction. Experts expect that the car will cost at least $ 5 million. Time for sale well chosen: the demand for luxury goods is growing around the world, including through the Russians.
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The owner of the American radio station of the city of Philadelphia Jerry Lee bought one of the most famous cars of James Bond at the British Aston Martin in 1969, paying $ 12 thousand. Now he hopes to sell it for a few million at an auction of vintage cars (old-timers) in London, which held on October 27. Whether the money is going to send to charity, according to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal.



Over 40 years, Jerry Lee, who is now 74, kept the car on the ground floor of his house, in the room dedicated to Bond. He never went to her. And before the American car owned by only one person - James Bond.

Now the machine is on recovery in the workshop in Canada. This is the original model of Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5, which went to James Bond film "Goldfinger" (1964) and "Thunderball" (1965). The role played Bond Sean Connery.



One of the copies of Bond's Aston Martin, never used in actual shooting, was sold in 2006 at an auction for $ 2, 1 million. Another copy is in the museum in the Netherlands.



In just a few decades, not for sale exhibited no authentic machines Bond star in a movie. In 1997, one of the cars 007 mysteriously disappeared from the hangar at the airport in Florida.



The film Aston Martin superspy had "some pretty interesting modifications": a rotating drum with number signs, the puncturer tires, double-barreled machine guns, machine smokescreen, radar, shield of bullets on the rear window and the ejection seat.

But soon after filming Aston Martin withdrew from the car all the spy device and sold it as a regular used car.



According to Lee, he persuaded the company to sell the car to him in 1969 when he arrived in Britain for the purchase, she looked not matter: it was covered with dust, stood in a corner of the plant, says Lee.

Last time the machine was exposed for all to see 17 years ago in Memphis, and while it damaged by vandals. Since then, she was in the house of Lee, who showed it to friends at parties.



Lee was not going to sell the car as an employee of the auction house RM Auctions did not convince him in December 2009 that the car Bond is no less than $ 5 million. "I was amazed," - he said Lee gazee The Wall Street Journal. Although he liked the car, Lee decided that it will bring more of his charitable projects, if it is sold.



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