James Bond should have driven a Corvette Stingray...
02-27-2008, 12:44 AM
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Dan Tanna drove a yellow Sting Ray convertible when Vega$ first came out, pre T-Bird days...
...fortunately, there weren't any Stingrays in 1965. As much as I love sharks, Bond wouldn't have looked right in one. Maybe an XKE with a Corvette big block in it.
...fortunately, there weren't any Stingrays in 1965. As much as I love sharks, Bond wouldn't have looked right in one. Maybe an XKE with a Corvette big block in it.
02-27-2008, 11:02 AM
#23
Melting Slicks
...I think that the novelist Ian Flemming depicted his character James Bond ..as a world traveled Englishman who likely would have been better suited to most any high end European exotic than a Corvette...or Ford.
But the movie business does what they like and for whoever pays the most for exposure..
The Ian Flemming books were exciting for the farm boy I was back then......and I would have gladly traded Trigger (..err actually Peggy, our farm horse) and my Roy Rogers chrome pistols for an Aston Martin ( whatever that was...had to be cool though) and a Walther PPK semi-auto pistol. None of which could be found easily in Texas...heh heh!
Stan..
But the movie business does what they like and for whoever pays the most for exposure..
The Ian Flemming books were exciting for the farm boy I was back then......and I would have gladly traded Trigger (..err actually Peggy, our farm horse) and my Roy Rogers chrome pistols for an Aston Martin ( whatever that was...had to be cool though) and a Walther PPK semi-auto pistol. None of which could be found easily in Texas...heh heh!
Stan..
02-27-2008, 11:32 AM
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Drifting
04-05-2011, 01:59 AM
#25
Ian Fleming owned Bentleys and Astons like the character he created, but he did own at least ONE American car contemporary to the C2 before he passed away.
A black Studebaker Avanti! Now those were exotic and rare enough to fit 007. Fleming had the first one in Jamaica.
A black Studebaker Avanti! Now those were exotic and rare enough to fit 007. Fleming had the first one in Jamaica.
04-05-2011, 08:15 AM
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Team Owner
Ian Fleming went off for a couple of paragraphs in an early Bond novel about the lack of character in American cars; Bond would never have willingly driven one.
He did have to steal an AMC "Hornet" in one movie to make an escape.
I guess folks forget American muscle cars were considered 'brutish' unmanageable beasts by most Europeans at that time.
Although one of Bond's female conquests did drive a '60s white Mustang in a film ... anybody remember which one ?
Besides Bond had ***** Galore -- what else does any man need ?
I've looked and looked in the '61 and there is no place to mount machine guns, ejections seats or even the wheels with the scythes to cut up opponent's tires.
Damn!
He did have to steal an AMC "Hornet" in one movie to make an escape.
I guess folks forget American muscle cars were considered 'brutish' unmanageable beasts by most Europeans at that time.
Although one of Bond's female conquests did drive a '60s white Mustang in a film ... anybody remember which one ?
Besides Bond had ***** Galore -- what else does any man need ?
I've looked and looked in the '61 and there is no place to mount machine guns, ejections seats or even the wheels with the scythes to cut up opponent's tires.
Damn!
Last edited by Frankie the Fink; 04-05-2011 at 08:30 AM.
04-05-2011, 09:22 AM
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