20 Things You Didn’t Know About Goldfinger (1964)
18. “And, Incidentally, We’d Appreciate It’s Return...”
Two cars were procured to represent the Aston Martin DB5: one to portray the now-legendary sportscar in the majority of its driving scenes and the other to be outfitted with gadgets. Given the popularity of the film and of the car itself, these vehicles became key collector's items.
One private collector paid $250,000 for one of the vehicles in 1986, whilst American classic car collector, Harry Yeaggy paid $4 million for the other in 2010.
However, the first car was stolen in June 1997 from an airport in Boca Raton, Florida after thieves cut the intruder alarms in the hangar housing the classic car and simply vanished with it. To date, no trace of this iconic piece of cinema history has been found.
Eon Productions engaged Aston Martin in 2018 to create 25 non-roadworthy replicas of the Goldfinger DB5, complete with some of the gadgets seen in the film, with a view to storing one in Eon's archives.