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History.com<\/a> presents 50+ Years of Hollywood’s Coolest Cars<\/a>. \u00a0 Here are three of my favorites and some thoughts at the end…<\/p>\n 1963 ASTON MARTIN DB5<\/strong> James Bond\u2019s bespoke British grand tourer wasn\u2019t just suave. It was also menacing, which likely had something to do with all that supercool spyware: pop-out machine guns and tire slashers, rotating license plates, and a smoke screen and oil-slick sprayer that (temporarily) foiled the baddies in hot pursuit.<\/p>\n Most memorable? Its fully functional passenger-side ejector seat, activated by a button hidden on the gear-shift knob\u2014an audience favorite despite the fact that the villain flung from it barely cleared the top of the car. In 1964, Corgi made a toy die-cast model complete with machine guns and ejector seat and a little toy bad guy to launch from it.<\/p>\n The DB5 went on to appear in Thunderball, Casino Royale and many other Bond films, becoming synonymous with 007. Of the two DB5s actually used in the film (two others were used for promotion), the one originally kitted out with all the gadgetry has disappeared, stolen from a Florida airplane hangar in 1997. The other, used in road scenes and later retrofitted with the spy goodies, sold at auction in 2010 for $4.6 million.<\/p>\n 1967 SHELBY MUSTANG GT500 FASTBACK \u2018ELEANOR II\u2019<\/strong> When it comes to leading cops on a chase, few scenes can match the climactic one in Nicolas Cage\u2019s star vehicle Gone in 60 Seconds. Eleven cars were custom-made for the film, only three of which were driveable. One of those three, the \u201cbeauty car\u201d Cage drove in that infamous chase (sporting a not-too-shabby 400 horsepower Ford V-B engine and its much copied \u201cGo-Baby-Go\u201d shifter knob), sold for $1.07 million at auction in 2013. A few years earlier, the other two fetched roughly $200,000 and $100,000 respectively. A cottage industry has emerged selling replicas.<\/p>\n 1976 LOTUS ESPRIT<\/strong> James Bond\u2019s Aston Martin may have helped him defend Queen and country with an impressive collection of spy gear, but could it \u2026 swim? The 10th Bond film featured a funky disco soundtrack, a leggy Russian spy and a villain with mouthful of metal. And if that wasn\u2019t enough, it showcased \u201cWet Nellie,\u201d a futuristic, wedge-shaped Lotus best remembered for the shocking moment when it dove into the water, sprouted fins and retracted its wheels\u2014essentially transforming into a submarine. (Reportedly, the bubbles it left in its wake were created with a cache of Alka-Seltzer tablets.) When it motored back up on the beach, it morphed back into a proper car.<\/p>\n The Lotus earned its spot in the 007 sports-car pantheon in a distinctly sneaky way: Lotus\u2019s PR manager, on hearing of a new Bond film in the making, strategically parked the striking vehicle outside the office of franchise producer Albert \u201cCubby\u201d Broccoli, hoping to catch his attention. Apparently, it worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Two of the three coolest cars were James Bond vehicles. \u00a0Not much is cooler than cars with weapons, ejector seats and that can go underwater. \u00a0The Shelby Mustang is also a favorite. \u00a0I had a Mustang in high school and my uncle owned a Shelby Cobra. \u00a0Gotta love those muscle cars.<\/p>\n Two cars that didn’t make the list that would have made mine –<\/p>\n History.com presents 50+ Years of Hollywood’s Coolest Cars. \u00a0 Here are three of my favorites and some thoughts at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18685,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGoldfinger (1964)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGone in 60 Seconds (2000)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Spy Who Loved Me (1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n