He's famous for his drink of choice, licence to kill and many romantic liaisons, but James Bond is just as well known as a connoisseur of cars.
And while many of Bond's motors meet an untimely end in explosions, crashes - or even through being sawn in half - an example of his most recognisable car, the Aston Martin DB5, has been rescued from a more prosaic fate.
The car in question was exported from Aston's Newport Pagnell factory to the US, and registered new in Pennsylvania in 1968. But while it was seemingly still cruising the state's roads for at least another 11 years, it clearly fell from favour at some point over the last 30 years, and was left to languish.
The left-hand-drive car apparently "seems very complete", but time hasn't been kind to its coach-built bodywork, which bears blooms of rust that have obscured almost all of its original Fiesta Red paintwork.
And despite the interior being equally shabby, Bonhams - who are auctioning the DB5 in Monaco on 30 April - anticipate that it will fetch up to £174,000 when it goes under the hammer.
The auctioneers add that the car - which has covered 61,163 miles - will need a full restoration, which the Daily Mail estimates will cost another £200,000.
But while the DB5 starred in several Bond films after being introduced in the classic Goldfinger - appearing in Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Casino Royale - Bonhams has recently sold another classic that made only one movie appearance.
Ferrari only ever built around 100 examples of the 250GT Spyder California, and the originals are hugely valuable, so when the script for the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off called for one to be destroyed, several replicas were commissioned.
Bonhams' 19 April sale saw one of these go for £79,600; double the estimate, but still some way short of the $10,976,000 record for an original - paid by DJ Chris Evans.
