Bond Cars: The Definitive History

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A collector’s edition of Bond Cars will be presented in a slip case and features exclusive posters and documents from the EON Bond archives. Instead, it lifts the bonnet quite brilliantly and with non-petrol head ease on a detailed, heavily researched and insightful cruise through the real metallic history and character of Bond’s vehicular co-stars and their asphalted road to movie immortality.

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Jason Barlow is a journalist and broadcaster who has driven every significant new car - and lots of old ones - in his 25-year career. Currently editor-at-large for BBC TopGear, and a long-standing contributing editor to British GQ, Barlow has also written for The Times, the Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph. He has presented numerous television shows on cars and popular culture for the BBC, ITV, Sky, and the Discovery Channel. He lives in rural Essex, where the roads are very good indeed.With insights from the producers and keepers of the Bond flame, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli as well as Daniel Craig and special effects and action vehicles supervisor and veteran of 15 Bond films, Chris Corbould, this is the story of cinema's greatest icon, told through the prism of the legendary cars he has driven. Bond Cars: The Definitive History is a lavish celebration of the cars that also became the stars alongside James Bond.

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With insights from the producers and keepers of the Bond flame, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli as well as Daniel Craig and special effects and action vehicles supervisor and veteran of 15 Bond films, Chris Corbould, this is the story of cinema's greatest icon, told through the prism of the legendary cars he has driven. Read more DetailsThe book features original call sheets, technical drawings and story-boards, accompanied by previously unpublished photography and exclusive interviews, about every car driven by 007 on film. Bond Cars: The Definitive History is a lavish celebration of the cars that also became the stars alongside the world's most famous fictional spy. Featuring exclusive and priceless assets such as the original call sheets, technical drawings and story-boards, accompanied by previously unpublished photography and exclusive interviews, we put you behind the wheel of every car driven by 007 on film. With a tome whose own production echoes the sleek lines and design choices of seven decades of automobile artistry, Bond Cars also manages to be an informed look at the pop culture status of cinema alongside the hold of car culture – whilst providing fresh testament to the staggering scale, personalities, organisation and scope of the Bond production juggernaut. It is a forensic look at the attitude of 007’s wheels, the curious timeline of the 20th century automobile and the literal and artistic momentum Bond and his cars lend each other.