at the next Bond down the road-- "The name is Bond... 
Barack Hussein Obama Bond."
Yet something tells me things may be about to... 
change--
Posted on 09/25/2013 2:24:58 PM PDT by Perdogg
The women, fast cars and a glamorous London hotel set the scene for the launch of a new James Bond novel on Wednesday that sees 007 set out on a renegade mission in the pursuit of justice.
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at the next Bond down the road-- "The name is Bond... Barack Hussein Obama Bond."
Yet something tells me things may be about to... change--
Well, good for them all. Connery set the standard for Bond, so if anyone deserves it, it’s him.
A ‘faithful’ (although Bond is changed to an American!) adaptation was a 1954 ‘Climax!’ episode of “Casino Royale”.
http://archive.org/details/ClimaxCasinoRoyale
Peter Lorre as the villian, Linda Cristian as the first ‘Bond Girl’.
LOL!
- Bond had fondness for early Bentleys fitted with superchargers.
Ian Fleming had nondescript Brit British cars until he started making money -
Then he bought Studillac, a Baby Bird, then larger T-Bird (his wife complained about 2-Seaters)
In Fleming’s book “Goldfinger” the chase car scene was not between an Aston and a Mustang - a gray Triumph TR3 roadster was driven by the Golden Girls sister
- 007 trivia - In “The Man With The Golden Gun” - Fleming’s cousin played the villain - the Brit horror film actor Christopher Lee I believe.
- Craig gets any Aston he wants to drive these days
- He drives a convertible -
He drives a Jensen in Solo.
Aha - a Jenson
You have me on that one - What year is “Solo” supposed to be in?
The Bond series producers went weird with American Motors cars in TMWTGG and one 007 flick that had nothing but GM cars in it - every taxi, etc.; strange stuff.
Jenson bodied the Volvo P1800S coupe Roger Moore drove in “The Saint” TV series and the little known Jenson-Healey sportscar.
Jaguar turned them down for the 007 movies - someone (a Director?) on the set drove his own E-Type convertible to the set every day - Jag made a very poor decision as Aston Martin sales jumped considerably.
A new McLaren F1 coupe would provide the sophisticated handling, extra comfy ride, and the blistering speed that James Bond would expect in his cars today.
Whatever happened to the talk of Bond driving a Bentley Continental Turbo Coupe?
I like logical continuity in the Bond series movies.
- Pardon my halting response; breaking in a MacBook PRO now and setting up my “pop3” email accounts with cable and APPLE are a bit slow and i am used to a lighterweight wireless keyboard but I do have warp speed connections and navigation now.
Screen clarity is great and setting up an large HDTV link to it soon.
- Beam me up Scotty; I need to check my email situation at APPLE.
Yup -
1969
not a Jenson Healey
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