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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Little-Known James Bond Car Facts

Posted November 18, 2015 9:00 AM by dstrohl

Editor's note: With the opening weekend success of Spectre, we thought it appropriate to run a piece on the vehicles of Bond, James Bond. This article comes to us from Myles Kornblatt, curator, Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection. Myles contributes to multiple publications as well as AutoMinded.com.

James Bond lives in a secret (and admittedly fictitious) world so alluring that Spectre, the latest Bond franchise film, easily captured the #1 box office spot on its opening weekend, and it is poised to do it again. Though 007 takes us along for the ride in every film, that doesn't mean he shares all his classified secrets; here's a momentary peek into the "Eyes Only" file for a glimpse at three little-known facts about James Bond cars.

What BMW made is world premiere in the hands of 007?

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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 646	#1 Re: Little-Known James Bond Car Facts 11/18/2015 11:24 AM
	One of my favorite James Bond car facts is the blooper in 'Diamonds Are Forever', in a scene with Jill St. John that takes place in Las Vegas. At the 3:20 mark Bond drives the car into an apparent dead end. Then he tips the car onto the passenger-side wheels to fit through a gap between the buildings. When the car emerges from the gap, it is somehow tipped onto the driver-side wheels. Oops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaKux3UVYHU __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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adreasler Guru Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Illinois, 7 county region (The 'blue dot' that drags the rest of the 'red state' around during presidential elections.) Posts: 3688 Good Answers: 89	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Little-Known James Bond Car Facts 11/19/2015 9:16 AM
	That is also why you do NOT play Baccarat with Orson Wells, he's so fast he can reach for the cigar in his mouth with his left hand, and remove it with his right. (Another classic Bond blooper, for those who don't remember the older movies.) __________________ ( The opinions espressed in this post may not reflect the true opinions of the poster, and may not reflect commonly accepted versions of reality. ) (If you are wondering: yes, I DO hope to live to be as old as my jokes.)
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