Gadgetory

now you've seen a gajillion list of the top James Bond cars from the movies so I'm gonna take a road less traveled the top five James Bond cars from the novel's no less cool a lot more unusual and I'm gonna rank them by their general importance to the DNA of double-oh-seven here we go number five the rolls-royce Silver Ghost I know we're going back to the brass age with this one but this was Goldfinger's car in the novel and perhaps the most interesting villain car of all the books like the 1937 phantom you saw in the movie it's body was cast in gold for crafty smuggling but the car in the novel hails from around 1909 so you may notice it looks a lot like a car from another novel that became film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which Fleming also wrote number four a supercharged Bentley four and a half liter forget Aston Martin's bonds personal cars were always bent least in the early books he had one of these blower Bentley's named that for the supercharger fitted distinctively ahead of the engine on the outside of the body this is the car that Fleming posed in for the cover of life in 1966 number three the lunchy of Flaminia Zagato Spyder now here is a case of poetic license the Zagato body launched via flaminia was the hottest of all those models but in reality was never available as a Spyder a drop-top no matter von married the woman in the pink scarf who blew past him in an imagined Spyder on the road between Abbeville and Monterey in northern France a scene immortalized in this beautiful Robert Weaver painting for Playboy in 64 number two the Aston Martin db7 knows the Aston db5 from the movie Goldfinger but in the novel it was a slightly more quaint db3 that Bond drew from the motor pool so it had the amazing gadgets but the bar for amazing was a little lower in 1959 so we're talking about it having a homing device but no Maps changeable color running lights and a Smuggler's box to stash a long-barrel colt 45 no ejector seats okay the number one Bond car from the bun books is the 1954 Bentley Continental R this was truly bonds personal car the one he bought with his own money he had his modified into a convertible and again had a supercharger installed at which point the factory washed their hands of the warranty attaboy it's one of the handsomest cars ever made a point not lost on modern Bentley look at the current Continental GT see resemblance for more on high-tech cars and modern driving check out our full show CNET on cars at CNET on cars.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching