20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)

10. Do Bring It Back In One Piece, Double-0 Seven

A View To A Kill
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Q is usually the one telling James Bond to bring all of his carefully prepared hardware back in one piece.

However, on this assignment, Cubby Broccoli leant his 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II to the production for Bond to use in his guise as James St. John Smythe. It was driven by Patrick Macnee in his role as Sir Godfrey Tibbett - also of MI6 - who is given the thankless task of posing as Double-0 Seven's chauffeur.

Macnee recalled with amusement that Cubby was watching carefully when he drove the pristine car through the narrow gates at Chantilly, which doubled as Zorin’s chateau. Fortunately, the art department found an engineless Rolls-Royce to use in the sequence in which May Day pushes it into a waterlogged quarry with Bond and Tibbett inside.

Cubby's Rolls-Royce was previously parked outside the Shrublands Clinic with its number plate of "CUB 1" in Thunderball (1965).

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