Vintage from the Movies. James Bond 1964 Aston Martin

Does any one in this group remember the movie Gold Finger? The year was 1964 and the car of choice was the Aston Martin. Indeed it became James Bond trade mark car. Gold Finger was the third James Bond film ansd saw the introduction of the begining of a relationship with Bond and the Aston Martin brand.
Sean Connery starred as Secret Agent 007 and the movie was based on the novel Gold Finger written by Ian Flemming. The movie also starred Bond's girl Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore.
The car was such a hit that that the model car version by Corgi Toys was the best selling toy for 1964.

James Bond slept througn an earthquake. He was shaken but never stirred!

Austin Cambridge 1960

Now that I have learnt a bit about blogging, let me introduce myself. My name is Motilal Boodoosingh and I am a 63 year old retired Offshore Gas Production worker. I am also an Adult Literacy Tutor and a Remedial English Tutor at the Penal Police Youth Club Home Work Centre.
As an eternal student I am currently in my final semester at Costaatt completing my BA in Literature and Communications, hence my enrollment in Comm 350 and my participation in this blogging exercise.
As you can probably tell by now, I am a vintage car enthusiast. I currently own seven ranging from the year 1953 to 1968. I will like to use this medium to show them and also talk about them a little. I have also chosen to highlight popular classic cars that have been used in movies of yesteryear and give some titbits about them. I hope that with me learing more in this class' I will be able to present videos of the cars in action. I also hope viewers will find my offerings interesting.

Above is a photo of my 1960 Austin Cambridge of which I will talk about later.

How do you call a car that goes left when you steer right? A Dis- lexus!comm350

My 1968 Mercedes Benz 280 S

My 1968 Mercedes Benz 280 S.

The Mercedes Benz 280 S series were manufactured in Germany through 1965 - 1972 as a then luxury car. This one is a 1968 model.  It carries a 2.8 litres straight six cylinder engine with twin carburettors.  It is automatic and can reach a maximum speed of 177 Km/hr.

I have had this car since 2001 and has done minimal maintenance on it except for oil changes and one chance out of front disc pads. The braking system is superb with discs on both front and rear wheels and also on the hand brake.

I have carried several weddings  and recently this car along with four other of my vintage cars were in a wedding scene for the local television series the Ramsinghs which will be aired in October.

Incidentally that is my wife in the picture. She usually drives when there is a wedding.

I am in class and trying this out. I hope I do this right,





My 1953 Morris Oxford.