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Bond’s The Spy Who Loved Me Lotus Esprit hits the auction block

November 17, 2008

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Click above for a gallery of the Esprit S1 from The Spy Who Loved Me
Hey, if you missed the For Yor Eyes Only Lotus Esprit sale a couple of years ago, your shot to own another Bond-driven Lotus is on the horizon. In December, Bonhams will auction one of the two 1976 Lotus Esprit S1s used in The Spy Who Loved Me. The film is well known for the car/motorcycle/helicopter chase that culminates with the Lotus flying into the drink and turning into a submarine (one of those famous prop cars sold last year); and the Stromberg hench-babe giving chase in a JetRanger turning into a charcoal briquette.
A look at the photos Bonhams includes with its listing make it pretty clear that the interior used in the chase sequence’s dialogue scenes between Roger Moore and Barbara Bach did not match the [...]

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