‘You’ll be driving the Aston’: stunt driver Ben Collins, Motor Sport ‘Racing At The Movies’, 2021

A 2008 Aston Martin DBS V12 with Milan plates caterwauls along a tunnel that skirts Lake Garda followed by an eager duo of black Alfa Romeo 159s. The road is ludicrously busy but the rat-a-tat of a Heckler & Koch G36C assault rifle from one of the pursuing cars means that adhering to the Italian speed limit is not an option for the recognisable DBS driver. Even when a door disappears following a collision with a lorry, our hero remains fully focused on outrunning his adversaries.

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Equipment Store, The Real James Bond supplement, GQ, 2013

Although Q’s gadgets were the envy of every red-blooded male, Ian Fleming’s novels reveal a more discerning James Bond. Lee Gale, archivist at GQ Branch, compiles a gadget dossier.

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