The GoldenEye DB5 is Going up for Auction

The GoldenEye Aston Martin DB5 will be put up for auction at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed

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Alongside the 1961 DB4 GT Zagato, Bonhams will be bringing the hammer down on Bond’s GoldenEye Aston Martin DB5 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed sale in July. This very vehicle was driven on-screen by Pierce Brosnan in the 1995 Bond epic, and surely stands as the most famous of all 007 cars.

This particular DB5 became the most expensive single piece of Bond memorabilia ever sold when it was purchased by its current owner back in 2001. It featured in Bond’s car chase scene with Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), driving a Ferrari F355 in the hills above Monaco (see above). This DB5 will set you back around twenty times the price of the prancing horse – with a higher auction estimate of £1.6 million.

The DB5 has become renowned as one of the most beautiful British automobiles ever built; and, having appeared in eight of the Bond screen adaptations since 1964, it has become synonymous with the most famous spy franchise in cinema history.

In Goldfinger, Q equipped the DB5 with the spy-wear that has appeared in every cinematic spy vehicle for the last six decades: bullet-proof panels, oil slick, smoke screen, rotating license plates, tire slashers, radar, the front-facing dual machine guns, and of course – most famously – the passenger ejector seat.

This very DB5 is undoubtedly the most famous vehicle ever used in cinema, and its continued appearances throughout the Bond franchise prove its importance to the success of 007. It goes across the auction block on 13th July this year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and is likely to sell for between £1,200,000 and £1,600,000. Let’s hope whoever buys the car brings it back to Q in one piece!

Check out the rest of the stock available at the Bonhams FOS auction this year: www.bonhams.com/auctions

What do you think is the most famous car in cinema history? Let me know in the comments below.

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  • Of curse the DB5 is probably the most iconic car in cinema history! In the garage of the most famouse filmcars of all time, i think the DeLorean DMC-12 From "back to the future" would stand next to the Aston😎

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