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Bond cars at the AutoMuseum Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany
Agent_99
enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
I've just spent a long weekend in Berlin helping a friend celebrate his 40th birthday. While I was there, I made a side trip to the city of Wolfsburg, home of the Volkswagen factory, because I had discovered that the AutoMuseum Volkswagen was having an exhibition of Bond cars (on until March 4th).
Going on an intercity train in a foreign country on my own was a new experience, and I enjoyed the journey even though I spent most of it worrying about being on the wrong train/having the wrong ticket/getting out at the wrong station. It all went FINE, of course.
I did, however, initially manage to go to the wrong museum, the posh and expensive AutoStadt. I paid for entry and spent about half an hour looking round before it dawned on me that something was Not Right. I was too embarrassed to try and explain, and perhaps obtain a refund, so I just crept away.
Fifteen minutes' walk brought me to the right museum, which was much smaller and friendlier. I paid 6 Euros and the lady on the front desk instructed me to have 'lots of fun', which was a dangerous suggestion in the circumstances.
The exhibition is called WOB-007, by the way, because WOB is the number plate code for Wolfsburg. I am nothing if not educational.
An aperitif before the museum proper, at the end of a long corridor hung with German Bond movie posters:
The entrance to the exhibition itself:
This is a much smaller affair than the London Film Museum's mighty Bond in Motion, with a dozen cars on display as well as props, toys, posters and press cuttings. I loved getting up close to a couple of rarely-seen vehicles, and seeing German magazines and posters.
All the VWs in Bond.
Sadly, the only one on display was this pickup lorry from CR67.
The incredibly cute Sunbeam Alpine.
The Thunderball jetpack: so powerful, the thrust may cause your trousers to fall off. And your legs.
TND BMW is pleased to see you.
Camera car used in filming TND.
Unreasonable excitement at anything TLD-related.
Inevitable selfie? Inevitable selfie.
More/bigger pictures from the exhibition and the rest of the museum on my Flickr.
Going on an intercity train in a foreign country on my own was a new experience, and I enjoyed the journey even though I spent most of it worrying about being on the wrong train/having the wrong ticket/getting out at the wrong station. It all went FINE, of course.
I did, however, initially manage to go to the wrong museum, the posh and expensive AutoStadt. I paid for entry and spent about half an hour looking round before it dawned on me that something was Not Right. I was too embarrassed to try and explain, and perhaps obtain a refund, so I just crept away.
Fifteen minutes' walk brought me to the right museum, which was much smaller and friendlier. I paid 6 Euros and the lady on the front desk instructed me to have 'lots of fun', which was a dangerous suggestion in the circumstances.
The exhibition is called WOB-007, by the way, because WOB is the number plate code for Wolfsburg. I am nothing if not educational.
An aperitif before the museum proper, at the end of a long corridor hung with German Bond movie posters:
The entrance to the exhibition itself:
This is a much smaller affair than the London Film Museum's mighty Bond in Motion, with a dozen cars on display as well as props, toys, posters and press cuttings. I loved getting up close to a couple of rarely-seen vehicles, and seeing German magazines and posters.
All the VWs in Bond.
Sadly, the only one on display was this pickup lorry from CR67.
The incredibly cute Sunbeam Alpine.
The Thunderball jetpack: so powerful, the thrust may cause your trousers to fall off. And your legs.
TND BMW is pleased to see you.
Camera car used in filming TND.
Unreasonable excitement at anything TLD-related.
Inevitable selfie? Inevitable selfie.
More/bigger pictures from the exhibition and the rest of the museum on my Flickr.
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You mean the camera/film crew car ?
If I understood the sign properly, it was a camera car used for filming the car park chase - so it did all its work behind the scenes!
@GoldenGun, it's on until March 4th, but it looks like most of it is from a travelling exhibition that will go elsewhere (again, if I am Germaning correctly): http://www.bondausstellung.de/ausstellung/
This guy seems to have built a private collection of those cars and props and rents them out to museums. There are worse hobbies.
I didn't realize so many VAG-Group cars had made their way into Bond films over the years. I certainly missed the Karman Ghia from OP and the didn't consciously notice the Bug in QoS.
My dad's first car was a Sunbeam Alpine. I only realized recently that this was the car in DN. I've never actually asked him if that's what inspired his purchase (pretty sure it did since he's a Bond fan).
The selling power of 007 - it was there right from the start!
And sharing the experience with you all is an absolute pleasure. Glad everyone's enjoying it as much as I did.
Too bad I never made it up to the Aston Martin level afterwards.
It was very much the car of choice for the kind of left-wing, vegetarian flower children my folks were at the time, though.
Were these your parents then?
Funnily enough again, I caught part of an episode of The Good Life just last night and Tom was wearing a scruffy old jumper exactly like one my dad used to have, so...yes!
Ha ha! Great stuff! :))