Aston Martin DB5
The British sports car that became world-famous in the Bond film Goldfinger.
The DB5 was based on the DB4, with a body drawn by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan and built using their Superleggera method. It had a larger engine and more equipment.
In Goldfinger in 1964 the car was given hidden weapons and an ejector seat, and the DB5 became one of the best-known cars in film.
Materials: Aluminium body on a framework of tubes (Superleggera), six-cylinder engine
Manufacture: Built in Newport Pagnell from 1963 to 1965.
The grille in Aston Martin’s shape.
The headlamps behind glass covers.
The sloping tail and the small side vents.
The engine is a four-litre straight-six. The aluminium body is carried by a frame of thin tubes, a method of construction that Touring called Superleggera, extremely light.
Headlights behind glass covers, air vents on the front wings and Aston Martin’s grille with a rounded top edge.