Bond In Motion

After The Jam exhibit at Somerset House, I circled back to the Covent Garden area to catch the Bond in Motion exhibition at the London Film Museum.

The Bond in Motion is the official and largest exhibition of James Bond vehicles ever featured. Every vehicle on display is the original, as seen in the movies – there are no replicas here.

On display were the archetypal bond car, the Aston Martin DBS, Goldfinger‘s majestic Rolls Royce Phantom III, The Spy Who Loved Me‘s Lotus Esprit S1 Submersible, Diamonds are Forever‘s bath-o-sub, Citroen 2CV, the crocodile submarine, as well as, a variety of aircraft, boats and motorcycles from all of the 23 James Bond movies. All of which were on loan from EON Productions and the Ian Fleming Foundation.

Some pics:

This is the car where Daniel Craig’s Bond gives chase to Le Chiffre and swerves to avoid Vesper Lynd, spinning his car before it smashes to a standstill. Stunt driver Adam Kirley flipped the car seven and three quarters turn – a Guiness world record! And Daniel Craig’s bloody tux:

I may not be a hardcore car aficionado nor a hardcore James Bond fan with the exception of Daniel Craig’s portrayal, but I gotta say, this was a pretty cool exhibition.