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Think of Roger Moore zipping around Europe in an
Aston Martin thwarting evil plans, and you'll probably think James Bond, right? Wrong. Because though 007 has driven a variety of Astons in the various films over the years, none of those were in the Moore era. He drove a
Chevy Impala in
Live and Let Die, a
Mercedes in
The Man With The Golden Gun, a
Lotus Esprit in both
The Spy Who Loved Me and
For Your Eyes Only, a
Range Rover in
Octopussy and a
Ford LTD in
A View to a Kill. But that wasn't the only jet-setting do-gooder Moore played. He drove a
Volvo as Simon Templar in
The Saint, but after that and before his Bond days, he got his turn behind the wheel of an Aston in a television series called
The Persuaders!
The show starred Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair and Tony Curtis as American playboy Danny Wilde in a TV series that ran on both ITV in the UK and ABC in the US. It sadly only ran for one 24-episode season, but remains a cult classic. The series was as much about the cars as it was the stars, with Curtis speeding around Europe in a
Ferrari 246 GT Dino and Moore in this yellow 1970 Aston Martin DBS. And it just sold at auction.
As
Octane pointed out when it drove the car for its September 2013 issue, the car was loaned to the show's producers and, though it packs the 4.0-liter inline-six of the DBS, was fitted with the wheels and badges of the Aston Martin V8 that followed - just without the eight-cylinder engine. It was sold to a private owner after the show finished filming and then bounced around different owners before collector and enthusiast Mike Sanders bought it and subsequently sold it to one Ed Stratton. Ed brought it back to show spec, took it to Villa d'Este, had Moore and Curtis sign the inside of the trunk lid, and now put it up for auction.
The star of
Bonhams' 15th annual sale at the
Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell this past weekend, the DBS sold for a record £533,500 - equivalent to almost $900k at today's rates - contributing to £8.7 million ($14.6m) in total sales that day. Find the press release
below, along with a video of a pretty great scene from
The Persuaders! with both Moore and Curtis.
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