Auctioned by the famous Aston Martin DB5 (1964) of James Bond Auctioned by the famous Aston Martin DB5 (1964) of James Bond

The Aston Martin DB5, which was made famous in James Bond films as "Goldfinger" and "Operation Thunder" will be auctioned in London next October 27 to benefit the Jerry Lee Foundation, a philanthropic foundation dedicated mainly to the reduction crime and improve education.

Originally Ian Fleming (creator of the novels of 007) had placed Bond in a DB Mark III, the car used in the film Goldfinger was the prototype DB5 with another standard car used for stunts. Two more modified cars were built for publicity tours after the release of the film. Later also used for the movie Thunderball.

In January 2006, one of those cars was auctioned in Arizona for $ 2.09 million. The same car was originally purchased in 1970 for £ 5,000 (~ USD $ 7.300) to Sir Anthony Bamford, by a museum in Tennessee. The other car is in the Netherlands Louwman Collection Museum, and this car was used mainly to promote the film.

Now, RM Auctions has announced the upcoming auction of a DB5 used in Goldfinger and Thunderball. The owner Jerry Lee, a U.S. radio personality, who originally bought the car from the company Aston Martin for $ 12,000 in 1969, now expected to reach USD $ 5,000,000.

The model is bullet-proof armor and equipped with items among which include machine guns, revolving license plates, a tracking device, removable roof, spray oil, paint applicator smokescreen. Although many of these gadgets from the mind of "Q Branch" are fully operational machine guns are not real, although not mentioned anything about the passenger seat ejection