Iconic Aston Martin from James
Bond films fetches $6.4 million at auction
By: Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group
National Content Desk
The 1965 DB5 sold for $6.4
million at a classic car auction held by RM Sotheby's in Monterey, California,
CNN reported. The price includes a buyer's fee.
This 1965 Aston Martin DB5 has a
full array of James Bond gadgets, and it was just auctioned for $6.4 million
Augustin Sabatié-Garat turned in
the winning bid for an anonymous client, KSBW reported.
"He wanted to kill the
competition basically," Sabatie-Garat told the television station.
The car is equipped with nail
spreaders, tire slashers, smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates and
a passenger ejector seat, according to the auction listing.
The Aston Martin was featured in
the movies "Thunderball" and "Goldfinger," which starred
actor Sean Connery in the role of James Bond, Agent 007.
The license plates are controlled
by a knob labeled "B-S-F," which stands for British, Swiss and French
plates, CNN reported. There are guns visible from behind the front turn
signals, but they do not fire real bullets, the network reported.
"They made four cars for the
movies -- three survive today," Barney Rupreht of RM Sotheby's told KSBW.
"This is about the only one that has fully-functional gadgets as original,
fully engineered, still working."
Sabatié-Garat said his client was
a James Bond enthusiast, and since the car is street legal, he plans to do a
lot of driving. "I don't think he will sell it for the next 30 years for sure,"