Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5
Fall 2024
The most iconic car in the world, the Aston Martin DB5, debuts in the movie Goldfinger when Q introduces 007 to the Silver Birch Aston Martin DB5 and most of its gadgets, leaving one or two with an element of surprise when its full array comes into effect.
The gadgets made famous in the movie feature in our 1:8 scale museum-quality model kit, including the retractable bulletproof screen, ejector seat, and revolving licence plates.
Specifications & Features
Remote Control
The interior & exterior lights and machine gun sound are operated by hand-held remote control
Choose your wheels
Constructing individual spokes for each wheel may not be for everyone, so a pre-built wheel option is included
The Goldfinger DB5 Gadgets
In Goldfinger, the first gadget deployed is the tracking device, which Bond attaches to Goldfinger’s Rolls-Royce Phantom III. Using a control panel in the centre console, 007 next engages the tire slashers to disable Tilly Masterson’s Ford Mustang after she’s taken a pot shot with her sniper’s rifle. Later on, bidding to escape Auric Enterprises, 007 employs the car’s smoke screen and oil slick. The bulletproof rear screen, meanwhile, saves him when he’s trapped in a crossfire. Once captured by Goldfinger’s goons, Bond escapes by utilising the ejector seat, and then unloads with the twin front-mounted Browning machine guns that emerge from behind the forward indicator lights, and also engages the extending front bumpers.
This 1:8 scale museum-quality replica model kit includes all the gadgets deployed in the movie, plus working features that include operational front and rear lights, interior lights, opening hood to reveal the detailed engine, opening trunk, and sound effects.
The Silver Birch paint-finish over primed Zamak metal has been expertly applied by our specialist paint technicians.
Specification
Scale: 1:8
Materials: Body and chassis made from zamak metal
Length: 22 3/8” (569 mm)
Width: 8 5/16” (211 mm)
Height: 6 3/4” (173 mm)
Weight: 15 lbs (7 kg) approx.
Number of parts: 500 approx.
Features
- Functioning machine guns
- extend from behind the indicator lights
- with firing gun sound effect
- Retractable bulletproof screen at the rear
- Tire slashers
- Working ejector seat
- Battering rams at the front and rear
- Oil slick jets extend from behind the rear lights
- Telephone concealed in the driver's door panel
- Revolving licence plates
- England: BMT 216A
- Switzerland: LU 6789
- France: 4711-EA-62
- Gadget control panel in the centre armrest
- Radar tracker screen
- Painted in the iconic Silver Birch colour, with gray seats & interior.
- Weapons tray containing replica Armalite rifle, Mauser automatic pistol, a hand grenade, throwing knife
It's all in the detail
Outstanding detail at 1:8 scale
MACHINE GUNS
Left and right front-wing machine guns concealed behind the indicator lights
Bulletproof rear screen
Retractable bulletproof rear screen can be displayed in 'activated' mode or concealed
Ejector Seat
Functioning passenger ejector seat can be operated at the touch of a button
REVOLVING LICENCE PLATES
English, French and Swiss licence plates on the front and rear
Tire Slashers
Tire slashers on the rear wheels can be extended
Rear weapons
Oil slick jets hidden behind lights and battering rams
Upgrade to the Collector's Edition
Enhance your James Bond Collection with an illuminated display plinth, specification plaque, and crystal-clear protective display case.
Each of our 007 models will have a movie-specific display case to show and protect your museum-quality model.
• Acrylic display case with black-painted wooden base
• Additional bespoke display plinth for the DB5
• Movie-inspired terrain image under car
• Illuminated Goldfinger logo
• Illuminated Agora Models logo
• Metal Specification-plaque
• Numbered Certificate of authenticity
• Price includes Packs 1-3
* Save $100 on orders before October 17, 2024($899 $799)*
Your buying options
When you place your order we will send your first pack with the first stages of your kit to build your model. Following this, you will be sent another pack every month for 11 months. You will be charged monthly.
Alternatively, you may choose the 24-month plan click here for more details.
(S&H cost per pack: USA $9.99; Canada & Mexico $19.99)
We ship worldwide. Your order will be in US$
Dispatching Fall 2024
PACK 1 ONLY $74.99
then $149.99 per month;
PACK 1 ONLY $74.99
then $79.99 per month;
COLLECTOR'S EDITION
+ Packs 1-3 : $799;
Agora Advantage Club
FREE PACKS
Enjoy every minute of your modeling with our Agora Advantage Club rewards scheme which makes your hobby even more enjoyable and rewards you as you go.
Goldfinger DB5
Introducing the Aston Martin DB5
In the novel Goldfinger, the Aston Martin was armed with a selection of extras – notably reinforced bumpers, a Colt .45 stashed beneath the driver’s seat, a radio that could follow a tracking device and a machine that changed the type and the colour of the rear lights.
These were cutting-edge technological innovations when the book was published in 1959, prompting producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to approach Aston Martin when taking their version of Goldfinger into movie production in 1963. After much negotiation, Aston Martin agreed to lend the production their new DB5. The car that made its way to Pinewood was the first prototype DB5, which was in fact a Series 5 DB4. This car had the chassis number DP/216/1 (DP being the Aston Martin acronym for Development Project), was finished in Dubonnet Red and wore the iconic registration plate BMT 216A.
The DB5 was, essentially, a 4.0-liter version of the Series 5 DB4. Indeed, the DB5 of 1964 was almost indistinguishable from its predecessor, cosmetically, bar a badge on the front wing.
Aston Martin launched the DB5 at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show and the classic coupé was displayed at the Earl’s Court show, London, on November 6, with an impressive marketing spiel that outlined its 4.0-liter engine, giving 282bhp at 5,500 rpm (and 314 bhp at 5,750 rpm in GT form), and also featured the 4-speed gearbox.
Under the hood modifications saw the DB5 become one of the first British cars to carry an alternator in place of the dynamo, while an oil-cooler was fitted and there were now four silencers instead of two. Magazine testing for the car recorded a top speed of 142.6mph with a 0-60mph time of 8.1 seconds.
Technical Specification
Car type: Grand tourer 2-door 2+2 coupé
Weight: 1468 kg (3236 lbs)
Dimensions: 4570 mm (180″) long, 1676 mm (66″) wide, 1320 mm (52″) high
Power: 282 bhp @ 5500 rpm
Torque: 280 lbs-ft (380 Nm) @ 4500 rpm
Engine type: DOHC Straight six, 3995 cc
Transmission: 5-speed ZF box or optional Borg-Warner 3-speed automatic
Layout: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Top speed: 142 mph (228 km/h)
0–60 mph: 7.1 sec
The Goldfinger DB5
In Goldfinger, the first DB5 gadget deployed is the tracking device, which Bond attaches to Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III.
From the control panel in the centre console, 007 next engages the tyre slashers to disable Tilly Masterson's Ford Mustang.
Later, 007 employs the car's smoke screen and oil slick as he escapes from Auric Enterprises.
When trapped in crossfire, he employs the bulletproof rear screen.
Once captured by Goldfinger's henchmen Bond escapes by utilising the ejector seat, and then unloads the twin front-mounted machine guns that emerge from behind the forward indicator lights, and also engages the extending front battering rams.
The famous Goldfinger gadgets
When Aston Martin lent two cars for filming Goldfinger, the production designer Ken Adam and special effects advisor John Stears were tasked with adding the gadgets to the car. Those described by James Bond author Ian Fleming were cutting-edge in 1959 when the novel was published, but were updated for the film to provide more spectacle for cinema audiences.
Adam drove a Jaguar in the early ‘60s which had suffered numerous bumps and dents from the careless parking of other drivers. His frustration inspired the evolution of the novel’s reinforced bumpers into the film’s extending over-rider battering rams… as well as the front-wing machine guns!
The weapons tray for 007’s pistol was outfitted with several more weapons and the radio tuned to receive messages from a Homer tracking device. The iconic tire-slashers were influenced by the scythed wheels of ancient history chariots and their appearance in the 1959 film Ben-Hur. The revolving licence plates, BMT 216A (UK), 4711-EA-62 (France) and LU 6789 (Switzerland) mounted on a triangular pivot, came from an idea of director Guy Hamilton who had received multiple parking tickets in London.
Other gadgets for James Bond’s DB5 included the smoke screen and oil slick jet used to evade Goldfinger’s henchmen, a retractable bulletproof rear screen which saves 007 when trapped in a crossfire, and a radar tracker used to follow Goldfinger through Furka Pass in Switzerland – which accurately displays the filming location when seen on screen!
List of Gadgets as seen in the movie
• Hydraulic over-rider battering rams – front and rear extending from bumpers
• Left and right front-wing machine guns – concealed behind the indicator lights
• Tire slasher – emerging from hub of rear passenger side wheel
• Radar tracker – concealed behind the radio speaker grille
• Radar scanner
• Ejector seat – engaged via button hidden in gearstick knob
• Bulletproof rear screen – retractable
• Revolving licence plates – England, France and Switzerland
• Telephone – concealed in driver’s door panel
• Oil slick jet – from the rear
• Rear smoke screen
• Weapons tray – underneath driver’s seat with Armalite rifle,
Mauser automatic pistol, a hand grenade, and a throwing knife
| City | Votes |
|---|
You may also like...
