(27 Oct 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Aston Martin DB5 (the Bond Car) at auction showroom, with front rams extended
2. Close up, number plate, pull out to show bullet-proof screen, in ready position
3. Close up, head light, tilt down to machine gun behind side light
4. Close up, badge
5. Interior, with dashboard, gadget panel
6. Wide, car with ram, side attack bars extended
7. Close up, revolving number plate
8. Wide, auction room
9. Reverse, auctioneer
10. Telephone bid-takers
11. Sign, reading (English) "Lot 197, 1964 Aston Martin DB5", pan to screen with movie title sequence (AUDIO : music)
12. Auctioneer (UPSOUND (English) 'done ? All finished ? In that case, I'm selling the car (gavel). Go ! (claps) Congratulations. Two point six (m) million pounds, for the most famous car in the world"). Pan to buyer Harry Yeaggy embracing seller Jerry Lee
13. Yeaggy shakes hands with Lee
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Harry Yeaggy, buyer:
"It feels good. It feels like, I thought about it but I never thought I'd come to it. I have other cars and this is the most famous but it wouldn't be the best car in the world, but it is the most recognised."
15. Yeaggy in driving seat, pull out to show Lee in passenger seat, reporters
STORYLINE
One of the world's most famous James Bond cars - the specially equipped silver Aston Martin first driven by Sean Connery in �Goldfinger� _ was auctioned off Wednesday in London for 2.6 million pounds ($4.1 million.)
It went to the first bidder, Harry Yeaggy, an American classic cars collector who has a small private museum in Ohio.
"It feels good," he told reporters after his winning bid.
He said it was likely the car would end up on public display, perhaps as the centrepiece of an upscale office complex in a city like Los Angeles or Moscow.
The car featured in the Bond movies Goldfinger and Thunderball before it was bought by broadcasting magnate Jerry Lee for twelve thousand dollars in 1969.
Lee said he intends to use the proceeds for a charity foundation which focuses on crime prevention.
Bond's creator, newspaperman and novelist Ian Fleming, had originally placed Bond in a Bentley, which was his own personal car of choice. But the filmmakers put him in the Aston Martin, which then competed mainly with the Jaguar E-type for the lucrative British and American sports car market.
Aston Martin was seen as a heady mix of Italian design and British engineering.
The silver Aston Martin DB5 coupe auctioned Wednesday was used by Connery to elude various villains in both "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" - generally regarded as early classics in Hollywood's longest running and most successful film franchise.
It is closely associated with the Connery-era Bond films, which are often preferred by aficionados, who rate him above George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and the current 007, Daniel Craig.
The use of the Aston Martin, with a rear bulletproof shield that could be activated with the push of a dashboard button, provided a major boost for the British carmaker, which received worldwide publicity when the car was featured in "Goldfinger" in 1964.
It was the Bond movies that made Aston Martin a household name, even though its handmade cars remained far too expensive for most.
The street version of the Aston Martin DB5 was released in 1963 and had a top speed of 145 miles (233 kilometres) per hour.
The car auctioned by RM Auctions Automobiles of London is one of two Aston Martins factory-modified for use in the early Bond films, and it is the only surviving example.
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