DB5 for 007 James Bond (Skyfall)

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DB5 for 007 James Bond (Skyfall)

(1965 / 2012)

The 2012 film, Skyfall, was the fifth occasion that James Bond has driven a Silver Birch DB5. There were, it has been claimed, two cars used during filming and neither were harmed during the making of the movie despite what you may have seen on screen. One of the cars was loaned to the film production company by a customer of Aston Martin Works who had initially entrusted the car to them for a full restoration.

By an odd quirk, the chassis number of this DB5 is DB/2007/R, the only DB5 with 007 in the chassis number.

DB5 for 007 James Bond (Skyfall)

I first saw chassis DB5/2007R in 2010 when the car was being auctioned by RM at their annual sale in London. At that time, the car was painted in its original livery of green with tan leather. In 2011, the car was hastily prepared for the film by being painted silver and having the leather recoloured. It has been in great demand since being centre stage during the premiere of the film having been road tested my many classic car magazines.

Not sure if you can see this clearly in the photographs but Works didn’t go to the trouble of actually cutting a panel in the roof for the ejector seat. This was merely represented by a vinyl sticker tracing the edge of the non-existent hole.