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Eaglemoss Die-Cast Club Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5
1:8 scale | $950 (est)
The Aston Martin DB5 that first appeared in the third installment of the James Bond franchise has been touted as the most famous car in the world. Certainly, it is the most famous movie car, and it has returned in various forms to appear in seven more Bond films (including the forthcoming No Time to Die.) But it is the first version, from Goldfinger, that collectors love best—both for its classic British looks and for its brilliant array of gadgets. This 1:8-scale kit-built DB5 from Eaglemoss’s Die-Cast Club has both of those virtues too. Like the Willys-Jeep featured on page 62 the Bond Aston is a build-it-yourself kit that arrives in a total of 86 sub-assembly kits you receive (4 per month) and build over time, giving you the chance to feel like a member of Q-branch as you build Bond’s Aston from the ground up with machine guns that extend out of the signal lights, rotating registration plates, extendable tire slashers in the wheels, a trunk-mounted bullet shield—even a working ejector-seat! (It also has more mundane DB5 functions like working lights and a functional horn.) You also get a printed magazine manual which has tons of
