![]() The Bond Aston Martin DB5 was not the company’s first screen spin-off model, as that honour went to The Saint's Volvo, which was launched in March 1965. The first two James Bond films were aimed at an adult audience but Eon Productions was certainly aware of the impact on younger filmgoers of the DB5 that appeared in Goldfinger granting a licence to Corgi would increase awareness of the fourth 007 picture, Thunderball, in which the Aston Martin would play a cameo role. ![]() True, there was the slight issue of the DB5 being painted gold – Corgi’s attempts at a silver Aston Martin apparently gave it a zinc-like appearance – and schoolboy pedants noted that the body was clearly based on an earlier die-cast DB4. But they were merely jealous. The prospect of enemies of the state taking control of Corgi’s finest model was indeed a terrible one and anyone who might possibly be an agent of evil – milkmen, meter readers, woodwork teachers – were given an especially close scrutiny.Īpart from the remote possibility of receiving a full-sized Dalek, few presents would have been more eagerly anticipated. The sum of 9/11d represented a good deal of pocket money, but then this was a die-cast metal model with an ejector seat, tyre slashers, machine guns, a bullet shield and front bumper over-riders that doubled as battering rams.Ĭorgi also advised retailers that the box “contained secret instructions”, and the proud new DB5 owner was warned never to let these “fall into the hands of SMERSH”. In October 1965 there was one motoring development of direct relevance to all young car enthusiasts, and not a few older ones. For them the major news was not the debut of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, the Ford GT40 or even the PC-series Vauxhall Cresta De Luxe, but the Corgi model of the James Bond Aston Martin DB5.
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