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1. In 'Casino Royale' his car was described as 'his only personal hobby'. Lovingly tended by a mechanic who had worked on the make, Bond had bought it in 1933 (although it was a 1930 model). A battleship grey convertible coupe, Bond apparently drove it with 'an almost sensual pleasure', but sadly it was wrecked by a carpet of spikes laid down by the villain Le Chiffre (although by the next book, 'Live and Let Die', it was back on the road). With a supercharger by Amherst Villiers, and a 4 1/2 litre engine, what make was this car?
2. In 'Live and Let Die', Bond was very scathing about American cars, thinking of them as 'beetle-shaped dodgems'. However, Felix Leiter picked him up in 'one of the few American cars with a personality'. What brand was this car?
3. Bond's faithful car was wrecked again in 'Thunderball', when Hugo Drax's henchman unloosed what load on to it?
4. In 'Diamonds are Forever', Felix Leiter rescued Bond and Tiffany Case in an interesting car that was a hybrid of two famous makes. What was it called?
5. In 'From Russia with Love', Darko Kerim had Bond picked up from Istanbul airport in a car that Bond guessed had been made for 'some millionaire of the 20s'. Probably the best-known of British luxury cars, what make was this 'old black basketwork coupé-de-ville'?
6. In 'Dr. No', Bond was picked up at Kingston airport in Jamaica by Quarrel, in Strangway's car. Strangway had been murdered by Dr. No, although everyone in London thought he had run off with his secretary. Later in the book, a beggar and a brothel worker were killed in mistake for Quarrel and Bond when the car was run off the road by a lorry. Made by the Rootes' group, what sort of car was this?
7. In 'Goldfinger', James Bond borrowed a car from 'the pool'. It apparently suited his cover as 'a well-to-do, rather adventurous young man with a taste for the good, the fast things of life'. It also had 'certain extras'. What sort of car was this, in battleship grey?
8. In 'Thunderball' we learnt the name Bond gave his car (which he loved 'more than all the women at present in his life rolled, if that were possible, together'). Apparently, though, he refused to 'be owned by any car'. So what practical name did he call it?
9. When Bond first saw his future wife in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', she got into a race with him in her Flaminia Zagato Spyder - and won! What make of car was this?
10. What was the name of the Japanese car, made by Toyota, that Dikko Henderson picked James Bond up from the airport in 'Live and Let Die'?
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