If you thought our royal newly-weds looked good in Prince Charles' DB6 Volante (and you have over £200k to spare), you might want to get yourself down to the Bonhams
12th annual auction of Aston Martin Lagonda
cars and related automobilia at Newport Pagnell on May 21st.
As well as a number of old and modern Astons there will be two 1968 DB6 Volantes on the block - both near-identical to the car given to Prince Charles on his 21st birthday. Each could go for £250,000 or even more given the current worldwide focus on the Royal wedding - and to think all I got for my 21st was £200 towards the crippling insurance of my 1.9 GTI...
If James Bond is your bag then there are a couple of 'identical' replicas of famous 007 cars. A replica DBS from
Her Majesty's Secret Service
(in which the gorgeous Diana Rigg met her fate right after getting married to George Lazenby's Bond) is expected to make between £50,000 - 70,000, and a clone of the V8 Volante used by Timothy Dalton's Bond in
should go for £70,000 - 100,000 the auctioneers reckon. For a far more attainable £2,500 - 3,500 you'll be in with a shout for the actual DB5 steering wheel that was used in
, as well as a host of other Bond memorabilia.
As for us, we can't afford any of that stuff (although the stunt knife used by Halle Berry in Die Another Day might just be do-able at an estimated £600). We'll content ourselves with getting giddy over the new One-77 which Aston has promised to put on display instead.