Aston Martin DB5 used in both "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball". The owner (Jerry Lee, president/owner of WBEB Radio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) originally bought the car from the Aston Martin company in 1969. At the auction, the DB5 was sold for £2.6 million. (£2.912m with commission) equates to $4.6m. Aston Martin announced in August 2018 that it plans to build 25 replicas of the DB5 as seen in "Goldfinger", including some of the gadgets seen in the film, each selling for about . With "Goldfinger", Corgi Toys began its decades-long relationship with the Bond franchise: they produced a toy of the car, which became the
Filming of James Bond in the 1980s Spy Who Loved Me", which reappeared four years later in "For Your Eyes Only". Despite the iconic status of the submersible Lotus however, Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is recognised as the most famous of his vehicles. As a consequence, Aston Martin returned with their V8 Vantage. Two different Aston Martin models were used in filming - a V8 Volante convertible, and later for the Czechoslovakia scenes, a hard-top non-Volante V8 saloon badged to look like the Volante. The Volante was a production model owned by Aston Martin Lagonda chairman, Victor Gauntlett. Principal photography ran from 18 July to 18 November