Aston Martin DB-5 Customized gadget-ladden sports car first issued to British Secret Service agent James Bond (007), in the espionage thrillers Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965). The car featured revolving license plates numbers, bulletproof front-and-rear wind screen, dashboard equipped with a radarscope, homing devices (magnetically attached), armrest with left and right front-wing machine guns (acetylene gas was sparked to created the look of gunfire), smoke screen, oil slick, electronic tire shredders (a la the chariot race in the 1959 film Ben Hur), and a passenger ejection seat activated by a red button hidden atop the gear shift. License plate reads: BMT 216A. All of the car's gadgets were created by weapons officer Major Boothroyd, a.k.a. 'Q' (Desmond Llewlyn) who worked for British Secret Service.
The Aston came complete with revolving number plates, which Q mentioned were valid in all countries. However, what he actually meant was all the countries Bond would travel through on his trip to Switzerland, to stake out Auric Goldfinger's headquarters. The countries were as follows:
United Kingdom - BMT216A
France - 4711-EA-62
Switzerland - LU6789
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