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1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III
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1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III - Goldfinger (1964)
Auric Goldfinger's Rolls was chassis no 3BU168 with a Barker Sedanca de Ville body that held a surprising secret, because Goldfinger was smuggling gold from England to Austria by melting it down and recasting it into the shape of the panels of his car. The AU1 numberplate refers to the periodic table symbol for gold. In the novel the Rolls-Royce used was a Silver Ghost.
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19/01/2012 18:39
I went to see the exhibition the first day it opened.
I was not disappointed, the cars there are the originals from the films, and you can get right up to them to check them out.
There were plenty of people there, like me, having a great time.
The fact that Beaulieu also has a Top Gear exhibition was a bonus, this is a real must for Bond fans, and plenty of other cars there too, this year is the 60th anniversary of th opening of the National Motor museum.
16/01/2012 17:01
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16/01/2012 16:18
Yet it's most remembered for a continuity mistake; when the car comes out the other end of the alley tilted on the opposite side to when it went in.
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Are you sure, as I seem to remember a shot from inside the car whilst in the alley
when he levels the car then tips it onto the other wheels, though how this would be
possible in a 'narrow' alley I'm not sure?
21/01/2012 15:18
What I would like to see is the boat Bond uses to go after the girl in the Thames sequence in The World Is Not Enough. It was the second greatest sequence ever. Anyone remember it small and black and he even dived under water with it for a few seconds after he stole it from Q in MI6 Headquarters?
16/01/2012 21:12
Hey Tug, you're right there was a clip inside the car to show it flipping from one side to the other, but they only inserted this later when then realised they'd filmed the car coming out of the alley on the wrong wheels! As you say, if the alleyway had been wide enough to do that then they wouldnt have needed to go on 2 wheels at all!
17/01/2012 14:29
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17/01/2012 01:09
@Tug and Andy- Having just watched the scene, what you 2 are referring to is the camera slide from the girl (cant remember her name, sorry!) to Bond but the camera move does imply that the car has switched wheels. It would be physically impossible for the car to switch wheels in that alleyway so, in my books, is a very poor continuity error.
Back to the article though- The DB5 is beautiful and DBS is stunning too
Back to the article though- The DB5 is beautiful and DBS is stunning too
16/01/2012 19:12
They are passing these cars off as the originals , which I very much doubt , in those days of filming nobody suspected what some of these iconic cars would be worth . Some famous vehicles have never surfaced , and more than a dozen cars were made for one sequence in a lot of James Bond films , so de-valuing them .
23/01/2012 10:53
17/01/2012 11:06
Disappointed that their were more gimmick vehicles than cars on this saw the car collection at Goodwood revival and it was the real deal with twice as many cars, only one missing was the Sunbeam Alpine mk 4, which was borrowed from the high Commissioner of Jamaica's wife for a small fee and a meeting of the stars for dinner, for 3 days to film car chase, reason being the film budget of first film was so small because of doubts of the idea taking of ! which is probable in a land fill or in use as a chicken house now
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