20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Living Daylights (1987)

Originally, James Bond and Kara Milovy escaped from Bratislava in a KGB agent’s car, wrecking it on the frozen lake and completing their flight on an ice yacht and Kara’s cello case.

However, Cubby Broccoli struck a deal with Victor Gauntlett of Aston Martin Lagonda for the return of the classic brand to the Bond franchise. Although Gauntlett was offered a cameo role as Koskov’s ally, Colonel Feyador, he simply could not spare the time. Nevertheless, Gauntlett leant his own 1985 Aston Martin V8 Volante to the production for James Bond’s drive to the Blayden safe house.

The winterised version of the car was actually three identical 1985 Aston Martin V8 Mark IV cars, whilst seven fibreglass copies were built to be destroyed.

Special effects expert, Chris Corbould outfitted the V8 with gadgets, whilst John Richardson created balsa wood fishing sheds for the Aston Martin to drive onto the frozen Lake Weissensee, Austria.

The sequence in which the Aston Martin vaults over a border guard hut was initially unsuccessful as the compressed air valve used to fire the car over the barrier had frozen shut in the minus 30-degree temperatures. Fortunately, the Aston Martin sailed over the hut the next day.