Blofeld's white cat, and the health clinic Bond stayed at during Thunderball.
Bond film character deriving from Kevin McClory's 1963 settlement with Ian Fleming. But the theft under cover of darkness Wednesday from a hangar at the Boca Raton Airport was real. Blofeld's white cat, and the health clinic Bond stayed at during Thunderball. Remember the oil slick capabilities and the machine guns? And the rear window is bullet proof. But Bond hasn't driven this particular Aston Martin since 1965.
He has stored the Aston Martin at the Boca Raton Airport on and off for the past 10 years, Pugliese said. The thieves could have been international spies themselves. The car, in a locked hangar surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, was protected by a security alarm and watched by 24-hour airport staff. The unknown perpetrators broke into the airport hangar in which the car was kept, cut through locks, disabled alarms and took the vehicle sometime between dusk Wednesday and dawn Thursday, said Anthony Pugliese. McClory had those rights, they contend that he did not have any more. Presumably, the bad guys wouldn't have much trouble eluding police. Never Say Never Again stems from a different situation. The thieves cut the rubber molding on the hangar door, hacked through a padlock, cut the wires to the alarm system and escaped with the car unseen in the middle of the night, police said. Sean Connery found fame and fortune as the suave, sophisticated British agent.
Pugliese, a Boca Raton developer, bought the car at a Sotheby's auction in 1986. McClory worked on script treatments with Fleming and another writer in 1959 and 1960. Pugliese, who bought the Aston Martin at a 1986 auction, proudly described the car as "priceless.