![]() Brakes : Girling, vented discs front and rear, servo-assisted.Suspension: Front, independent, wishbones and coil springs.Engine: DOHC 5.341cc front-mounted V8.And in the final scenes of the film Madelaine is driving it. Later he drives it in Norway en route to Madelaines house. We see Bond revealing the car from storage in London when he returns from Cuba. The colour and number plate is the same as in The Living Daylights. In No Time to Die the V8 Vantage is Bonds private car without any gadgets. They were all handbuild by the special effects department at Pinewood. The seven shells was used for mock-ups and closeups of the different gadgets in operation. It was used for filming the knock off of the skis in the wood. The look alike car had a real body, but only brakes and steering, nothing else. The third car was the special effects car, equipped with missiles front, rocket booster back and 'lasers' (lights) in the wheel hubs. It hit a ram at 75 mph and landed on cardboard boxes. That's the one that flew over the russian troops. One car was the road car used for the driving shots with Timothy Dalton at the wheel. They were found in motor ads in local papers. ![]() The three real cars was used models bought by Eon at reasonable prices. 3 was real cars, 1 a look a like and then 7 shells. was once owned by the museum Cars of the Stars in UK.Ī running Vantage replica with the Bond numberplates is owned by the factory and sometimes it appears on the classic cars events.Ī total of 11 'cars' was used for the filming. The actual Vantage car, fitted with skis etc. ![]() In further scenes, after 'Winterrization', as Q says, car received a rigid roof - in reality a serial Vantage was applied for the action, receiving the number plates and all the badges of the Volante version to keep the continuity impression. First of all the Volante (convertible) model appeared - in origin preproduction model, owned by the AML chairman Victor Gauntlett. For the movie purposes 2 different models in the newest series 3 car (fuel injection instead carburetors) were used. Goodlooking, powerful car heavily equipped with Q-branch devices - In my opinion very successful successor of the famous DB5 traditions.ĪM Vantage version debuted in 1977 and was in production to 1990 with a total of 458 Vi Vantage build.
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