Rolls-Royce is a typical function in Bond movies, showing 12 occasions throughout the franchise now sixty years on from the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger we’re nonetheless eager about the Rolls-Royce Phantom III.
We seem to not be the one ones as a result of Rolls-Royce Motor Vehicles has unveiled a one-of-one Phantom Prolonged that pays homage to the movie in some extremely enjoyable methods.
For instance, in Goldfinger’s first encounter with Bond he makes use of a gold plated putter, which has been recreated and mounted on the underside of the boot lid. The membership is adorned with a specifically designed ‘AG’ monogram, impressed by the engraving on the signet ring worn by Goldfinger on-screen. Goldfinger’s harlequin umbrella that’s loaded into the automobile by Oddjob has additionally been included. The umbrellas that match into the motor automobile’s rear doorways have been completed in the identical crimson, blue, inexperienced, and yellow colors.
In the event you suppose that’s oddly particular about detailing The marque’s Bespoke Collective designed the Starlight Headliner of Phantom Goldfinger to completely replicate the constellations as they have been positioned over the Furka Cross on 11 July 1964 – the final day of filming the scene in Switzerland.
A hidden vault within the heart console has been re-engineered to deal with an illuminated stable 18-carat gold bar, formed as a Phantom ‘Speedform’. It additionally has Royal Walnut picnic tables that are adorned with a 22-carat gold inlay. This inlay shows a fictional map of Fort Knox.
The seats have been subtly elevated with gold stitching, gold-coloured ‘bullets’ to cap the seat piping sections, and headrests that incorporate gold ‘RR’ monograms.
In a extra normal Bond reference the bespoke clock encompass on the sprint is impressed by the gun barrel sequence from the beginning of all of the Bond Movies.
As a completion, the prized British numberplate ‘AU 1’, which graced the Goldfinger Phantom III within the movie, has been secured — a reference to the chemical image for gold on the periodic desk of parts. This may stay with Phantom Goldfinger, which has now been delivered to a big Rolls-Royce consumer and collector primarily based in England.
