- The Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger incorporates a strong 18-carat gold bar within the middle console
- Film references are littered all through the Phantom Goldfinger’s bespoke design touches
- Aston Martin additionally paid tribute to “Goldfinger” with a special-edition DB12
James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 rightfully will get essentially the most consideration, however it’s not the one memorable automobile from 1964’s “Goldfinger.”
The counterpoint to 007’s Aston was the 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville of titular villain Auric Goldfinger. To commemorate the film’s sixtieth anniversary, Rolls-Royce constructed a one-off model of the present Phantom Prolonged Wheelbase impressed by the long-lasting villain automobile. The one-off is named the Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger.
The Phantom Goldfinger wears an analogous two-tone paint scheme to the film automobile, with 21-inch wheels designs to appear like that automobile’s clean disc wheels. Within the film, the Phantom’s bodywork was additionally product of gold being smuggled by Goldfinger. Rolls-Royce did not go fairly that far with the tribute automobile, however used a mix of 18-carat gold plating and coats of silver to make it seem as if the hood decoration is product of strong gold.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger
Rolls-Royce additionally included 18-carat and 24-carat gold all through the inside. An 18-carat gold bar formed like a miniature Phantom is housed in a vault within the entrance middle console. The front- and second-row consoles are additionally lined with gold, as is the glovebox, which additionally bears one among Goldfinger’s most memorable traces: “That is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life, I’ve been in love with its shade, its brilliance, its divine heavenliness.”
The Phantom additionally sports activities a 24-carat gold VIN plaque, gold-finished air vents, and gold-plated scuff plates designed to appear like gold bars. Walnut picnic tables characteristic a 22-carat gold inlay and a fictional map of the U.S. gold depository at Fort Knox, the goal of Goldfinger’s heist within the film. The remainder of the inside is completed in navy leather-based with walnut wooden veneers.
Within the film, Bond tails Goldfinger by means of the Furka Move throughout the Swiss Alps, a scene that is referenced by a three-dimensional map of the cross within the Phantom’s dashboard “gallery,” and the illuminated Starlight Headliner. This options 719 mild factors replicating the positions of the celebrities over the Furka Move on Jul. 11, 1964—the final day of “Goldfinger” filming at that location.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger
Different film references embrace a gold-plated putter mounted on the underside of the trunk lid—a nod to the primary encounter between Bond and Goldfinger over a spherical of golf—and a faux monitoring system that initiatives the 007 brand onto the trunk flooring. The Phantom’s door-mounted umbrellas even have the identical design as Goldfinger’s and the automobile wears the identical license plate quantity because the film model—AU1.
Like different Rolls-Royce bespoke builds, the Goldfinger Phantom will not be replicated. However the automaker’s continued emphasis on bespoke work means the automaker will proceed to concoct distinctive vehicles.
Aston Martin can be celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of “Goldfinger” with a special-edition DB12. The automaker already constructed a restricted run of “Goldfinger” continuation DB5 fashions—full with working devices—though they cannot be pushed on public roads.