{"id":6548,"date":"2020-05-29T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:20:41","slug":"db5-continuation-bond-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/db5-continuation-bond-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"DB5 Continuation – Bond is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Martin loves a \u2018Continuation\u2019 model, as we documented last year when the British icon announced it would be building a number of \u2018new\u2019 <\/span>DB4 Zagato<\/span><\/a> models. That\u2019s not the only old car they\u2019re refreshing though. There is another, and it\u2019s perhaps the most famous of them all. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, we are of course talking about the Aston Martin DB5. But not just any Aston Martin DB5. Oh no. The cars being built in the Newport Pagnell facility, as we write these very words, are in fact being made to the exact specification of the car used in 1964\u2019s James Bond film, <\/span>Goldfinger. <\/span><\/i>And before you ask, yes, that means they\u2019re being built with all the bells, all the whistles, all the machine guns and all the ejector seats. Sort of. <\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t <\/span>actually<\/span><\/i> have any machine guns. That would be all kinds of against the law. However, it does have replica guns that pop out from behind the indicators. It also has\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n