STAR Letter
THE OTHER BOND
Dear Classic American, I read the article on the upcoming sale of the James Bond Cobra Jet Cougar with quite some interest as I also owned one of the three cars used in the film way back in the Seventies along with an old mate of mine, Carl Denhart (who sadly is no longer with us). He was pretty well-known in the American car circles, which in those days was much smaller, and between us and a few other people we mainly bought and sold our cars among ourselves. This was around 1974 or so – I don’t remember exactly – but I do remember lighting up the original Polyglass tyres on a lovely sunny day with the top down outside another mate’s house in Strood, leaving tyre marks for a few feet and being fascinated that it had a cassette player, which was still a relatively new invention to us back then!
The car we owned was used mainly for the still shots, as we understood it from the seller, and was flawless at the time. It was purchased out of the
